Monday, September 15, 2008

Obama Slime



Breitbart News reports on the latest ad from the Obama campaign:
"He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail, still doesn't understand the economy, and favors two hundred billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class," it says. It shows video of McCain getting out of a golf cart with former President George H.W. Bush and closes with a photo of him standing with the current President Bush at the White House. "After one president who was out of touch, we just can't afford more of the same."
Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said the campaign was not making an issue of the 72-year-old McCain's age, but the time he's spent in Washington.
"Our economy wouldn't survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats," Pfeiffer said. "It's extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail." McCain has said he relies on his wife and staff to work the computer for him and that he doesn't use e-mail..."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9359KL80&show_article=1

This ad and the comments by Mr. Pfeiffer are disgusting: John McCain can NOT type due to his wartime injuries. In 2000, the Boston Globe reported:
"McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan - Ted Williams is his hero - but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball..."
http://graphics.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/McCain_character_loyal_to_a_fault+.shtml

Mr. Pfeiffer needs to be punched in the face. Repeatedly.

Posted by Kingfish at 11:58 AM

5 comments:

Tom Head said...

Actually, McCain does use a BlackBerry and computer word processor; he just can't type for long periods of time because of severe arthritis in his shoulders. (His hands are fine; the issue is typing posture.) He would have no problem dashing off an email from time to time, if he were so inclined, and he is entirely capable of using a keyboard for short periods of time.

I'm not crazy about the ad, but it doesn't make fun of McCain's war injuries. If anything, I would see it more as a veiled jab at his age, or his tendency to rely on staff and family members to handle stuff like emails. What it's probably intended to provide is a counterpoint to Bush's "I never read the newspapers" remark, which Kerry got a lot of play off of in 2004. McCain does read the newspapers, but he doesn't know how to use the Internet, so there's an opening.

September 15, 2008 at 11:34 PM
Tom Head said...

The reason he can't tie his shoelaces, BTW, is because you have to raise your arms past your shoulders to do that. (Try tying your shoelaces while keeping your shoulders down. Doesn't work.) Again, manual coordination is not an issue; it's his shoulders. Remember that he got recertified as a pilot after he came back from the war.

September 15, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Kingfish said...

A Blackberry only requires two thumbs to type and is a little easier for him to use.

The internet is overblown. You don't know how many successful and VERY smart doctors and lawyers I know who do not use it at all or have their secretaries use it for them.

Yes, he was recerrtified as a pilot but since then arthritis has set in, aggravated and hastened on by his injuries.

The ad was a tasteless blow, like the joke the Clinton aide made about Dole's arm.

September 16, 2008 at 7:46 AM
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September 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Tom Head said...

Again, the issue isn't fingers vs. thumbs; it's shoulders. The guy shakes hands 5,000 times a day. There are plenty of folks with similar shoulder issues, in many cases more severe shoulder issues, who use the Internet just fine. I know one person with frozen shoulders, for example, who uses a laptop in a recliner instead of a keyboard on a desk.

There are enough adaptive options now that almost anybody can get online if they want to, especially someone with McCain's financial resources. He clearly hasn't wanted to, and that's his decision, but it's not a disability issue.

September 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM

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