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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (46985)	9/16/2008 12:42:34 PM
From: JakeStraw	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

>>he can't even guarantee us he'll be able to use a computer!! Why would he have to?

To: puborectalis who wrote (46985)	9/16/2008 4:03:10 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

well some can use a keyboard and type and think that is using a computer. but typing is not thinking. stupid is expressing in type that which shows spite and such gross ignorance that it is called stupidity. Your comment "Lahdeedah.........he can't even guarantee us he'll be able to use a computer!!" shows that CEO obama can hire truly absurd idiots. And fool truly absurd idiots. this is from the LA times, who wants to rant LA time right wing hate sheet. LOL... The tax-cuts and economy barbs are familiar boilerplate. What's new is the charge of computer illiteracy and the blatant attempt to attack McCain as too old for the job -- and that speaks volumes. First, the ad is dishonest. 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, a crop that included none other than Al Gore. Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Weisberg explained, "forced him to learn about the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos fascinate him." Weisberg, an Obama booster, now disingenuously mocks McCain as "flummoxed by that newfangled doodad, the personal computer." One 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, though he says he's getting up to speed. "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." For the record, President Clinton sent exactly two e-mails while in office, according to the archives in his presidential library. Besides, by this logic, Obama is even less qualified to be commander in chief because, unlike McCain, Obama has never fired a gun, flown a plane or led men during wartime. And if the Obama campaign did not intend to mock a disabled veteran, what does it say about his supposedly "cybersavvy" campaign that they don't know how to conduct a five-minute Google search to find out these things? latimes.com John McCain,