Obama unveiled a new TV advertisement. It begins with the date “1982,” a picture of a disco ball and footage of McCain in clunky glasses from his first year in Washington. “Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t,” explains the announcer. “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 $200 billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class.” All the while it shows ancient computers and a cordless phone that looks like a World War II-era walkie-talkie.
“It’s extraordinary,” Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said, “that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t know how to send an e-mail.”
The ad is a blatant attempt to attack McCain as too old for the job. And it’s a damn lie.
McCain has been one of the Senate’s leading authorities on telecom and the Internet. In 2000, Forbes magazine called him the “Senate’s savviest technologist.” That same year, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg gushed that McCain was the most “cybersavvy” of all the presidential candidates that year.
The reason McCain is not versed in the mechanical details of sending e-mail and typing on a keyboard is that the North Vietnamese broke his fingers and shattered both of his arms. As Forbes, Slate and the Boston Globe reported in 2000, McCain’s injuries make using a keyboard painfully laborious. He mostly relies on his wife and staff to show him e-mails and websites. The Obama campaign is doing nothing more than mocking a disabled veteran.
The Obama minions believe that since McCain doesn’t send his own emails he somehow is unable to lead this country. But, unlike McCain, Obama has never fired a gun, flown a plane, or led men during wartime, actions far more important in leading this country than the ability to send emails.
Older Americans, working-class Americans, veterans, and other voters Obama desperately needs are not going to care and, instead, will take offense at Obama’s condescension to “old folks”.
Obama is pathetic, arrogant, elitist, and not fit for the White House.
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1 Linz // Sep 16, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Really, even for that scumbag motha fucka, that’s low. I really hate Osama.