The point of the ad is that McCain chooses not to join the 21st century, not that he can’t because of his injuries. If he wanted to, he could use e-mail and computers like every other disabled American who use them in their daily lives. He relishes and laughs off the fact that he’s computer illiterate. How can the USA compete with the global economy if a President doesn’t recognize and use the tools of today. If Stephen Hawking can theorize on the foundations of the universe, McCain can send a friggin’ e-mail. This is such B.S. right wing swift boat smear crap.

Ben … on any level its a terrible gaffe. McCain is more than familiar with the internet. His campaign for President in 2000 was one of the first to utilize the internet. And if you read through the Globe and Forbes articles you will see his Senate colleagues recognize this too. McCain was referring to mechanics and the tech vocabulary that go with it that he never bothered to learn. The Obama camp should have know this. Instead they based it on an equally poor researched article in the Politico from July which was based on an old NY Times article. On multiple levels the ad (and article) is shameful.
(The links to all of the articles can be found in the Instapundit and Hotair posts)

The ad is no more shameful than a number of ads that McCain has run in the past week! It appears that Obama is the one to have the decency to recognize his mistake and reverse his decision.

Bob, I agree. Unfortunately, the media will give us what we watch. I doubt they’d continue playing the same song if they weren’t getting decent ratings.

I guess my recommendation to you is to get everyone to stop watching (listening, reading). Or, enough people to make a point. Then the media would know that it’s not what we want, and they’ll maybe get back to the real content.