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• 1. Uncle Bouncy  |  September 12th, 2008 at 8:00 pm

  Stay Classy Liberals:

  Earlier today, Barack Obama’s campaign released an ad attacking John McCain for not knowing how to send an e-mail. Their crack research team apparently never heard of Google or Lexis-Nexis, but Jonah Goldberg does. He discovers why McCain doesn’t use a keyboard — his torturers made sure he couldn’t. The Boston Globe reported it eight years ago:

  McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: 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.

  After Vietnam, McCain had Ann Lawrence, a physical therapist, help him regain flexibility in his leg, which had been frozen in an extended position by a shattered knee. It was the only way he could hope to resume his career as a Navy flier, but Lawrence said the treatment, taken twice a week for six months, was excruciatingly painful.

  ”He endured it, he wouldn’t settle for less,” said Lawrence, who rejoiced with McCain when he passed the Navy physical. ”I have never seen such toughness and resolve.”

  Making fun of a war hero’s severe injuries — smooth move, Team O. Talk about computer illiteracy! Doesn’t anyone on the Obama campaign know what they’re doing? Didn’t it ever occur to them that a man who can’t raise his arms above his head might have a physical barrier to using a computer?

• 2. Henry  |  September 12th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

  How about a link to what you are talking about. He can hold a cup of coffee, and I see him sign autographs, so what’s stopping him from typing? Be specific.

• 3. Matt  |  September 12th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

  Actually McCain explains why he is totally computer illiterate here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rpamTKMlKw and it has nothing to do with a supposed torture during his “captivity” where he claims to have been tortured, even tho many sources, including his pow mates claim that McCain received special treatment because he was the son the commander of the US forces in vietnam: http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/08/19/fellow-pow-won-t-vote-for-mccain/ Also McCain’s supposed captor calls him an “old buddy” : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25418965/
  So your claims are kinda bold and false, you also say that he has a vast knowledge of sports….well so do 95% of the males in this country, myself included, that does not make me qualified to run the country, although i may be slightly more qualified than Palin to be V.P.

• 4. Juice  |  September 12th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

  Not everyone goes to Harvard on an affirmative-action free ride. Some of us dummies have to buy our own computers. McCain has more important things to do I guess. Stay tuned on Fox next week for a special with Gov. Palin on how to field-dress a Donkey.

• 5. SpeckleMe  |  September 12th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

  Totally missed the point of the commercial, he can’t use a computer because he chooses to not learn to us one, that is why he can’t send an email. Obama was NOT making fun of McCain’s war injuries. SPIN SPIN SPIN, I’d think Bill O’Reilly was posting here.

• 6. Uncle Bouncy  |  September 12th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

  Which candidate can’t use a computer?

  5 minutes, tops, of research would have gotten Team The One this from Forbes back in 2000:
  Update II: Ace notes that Forbes Magazine noted McCain’s disability in 2000, too:

  In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.

  How difficult was this for a campaign to find before they ran an ad embarrassing themselves?

• 7. Optimistic1  |  September 12th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  Here is the original link to story:

  http://graphics.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/McCain_character_loyal_to_a_fault+.shtml

  McCain has since said he has no use for email so people may be putting words in McCain’s mouth on this one as far as disability, still looks bad for Sen Obama who seems to be having a hard time going negative without repercussions to his own campaign. In my opinion, I wouldn’t touch a computer if I had personal assistants to do that stuff for me and I am 30 years younger and a tech guy on a computer 50-60 hours a week. How much emailing time does the POTUS have realistically, not to mention security concerns of email.

  Just found this, pretty funny:

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/28/clinton.email.reut/index.html

• 8. Menlo Bob  |  September 13th, 2008 at 3:26 am

  According to the Obama campaign today is the first day of the rest of the campaign. Nice start…now pick yourself off the floor while you await the McCain commercial pointing out how you\’ve slandered a war hero.

• 9. Erin  |  September 13th, 2008 at 6:49 am

  Get off your high horse Cunningham. There are computers that can be used without key boards. And if it weren’t for the fact that Obama is half black this election would be a land slide. It would be interesting to see how voters would respond if all they saw were the candidates platforms and what they intend to do when they are elected.

  There are too many voters who can’t go beyond looking at the cover and are too ignorant or lazy to investigate the contents.

• 10. kaus  |  September 13th, 2008 at 7:32 am

  Sounds like Henry (post 2) is the one who needs computer training…try google search Henry.

  Not only is the Obama advertisement wrong wrong wrong on the email story, I notice that they slam Mccain regarding tax cuts for corporations at the same time as Obama publicly stating he would delay rescinding President Bush’s tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy.

  Duh….Obama wakes up and smells the coffee? Taxes stifle the economy…gee quitet an epiphany from a Harvard grad…

• 11. Henry  |  September 13th, 2008 at 8:40 am

  Kaus -

  You wingnuts are very adept at making false claims. This is another example. If you bothered to watch the YouTube link provided by Matt, you would hear McCain say he is computer illiterate. Nothing about a physical problem. Sorry, but I don’t take you or your kind’s word on anything. If you want to claim, for example, the world is flat, how about providing something to back it up? Besides war, McCain is a dim bulb. The economy is in a free fall and a President McCain wouldn’t know what to do. I know, maybe bomb Iran or start a war with Russia, that will fix everything!

  And what the hell does this mean:

  gee quitet an epiphany from a Harvard grad…

• 12. Mike Carroll  |  September 13th, 2008 at 9:35 am

  Henry

  Difficulty with interpreting quitet into quite (typo obviously)or you don’t understand the word epiphany?

• 13. Henry  |  September 13th, 2008 at 10:56 am

  Mike -
  Actually, I know what epiphany means, and I didn’t need wikipedia like you (or probably McCain).

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