I do not know if the Obama camp realizes that older people also vote. The ad is just plain stupid on the merits.
The Boston Globe wrote in 2000 that "McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes." Forbes also wrote back in 2000 that "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." Apparently the Obama camp did not do minimal and basic research before putting out this despicable ad. That they could put out such an ad is inexcusable in light of the quotes I just provided. The Obama campaign ought to be ashamed.
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Obama Ad: McCain Is Old And Does Not Know How To Use E-Mail
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Please please please stop using a physical disability has an excuse for not using a computer. Computers are wonderful tools that are used by hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities far worse than Senator McCain's. It is not necessary to be able to type on a keyboard to use a computer. Voice recognition software is easy to use and I am sure the McCain's can afford the modest cost. If he is unaware of the technology that only furthers the point that he is out of touch, not only with technology, but with the disability community. Oh, but wait those of us in the disability community already knew he didn't want anything to do with us...
ReplyDeleteThe Obama ad was just plain stupid. It attacked his age and his e-mail abilites. Give me a break. And of course McCain's injuries matter. It is makes the Obama ad that much more disgusting, that he included an attack on McCain's e-mailing when simple research would show how offensive that line of attack really is.
ReplyDeleteJust another point, no matter what McCain's computer abilities are, he has served just fine as a U.S. Senator. Further, president's do not send e-mails because e-mails are able to be subpoenaed. E-mails are usually sent in a very causal manner, and you would not want personal interaction like that to be in the hands of a Congressional committee. Written interaction within the White House usually takes the forms of memos, because someone who sits down to right a memo usually puts a little thought into what they are writing.
ReplyDeleteFinally, do you really think this is legitimate issue? Two can play this game then. Allow me to quote National Review's Jonah Goldberg: "Lord knows I think the chicken-hawk arguments are stupid. And I don’t think the fact that Obama never served in the military should count against him in and of itself. But how stupid is it for the Obama campaign to claim that McCain is unqualified to be president because he can’t grasp cyber-security issues based on the fact he has never sent an email when the McCain campaign can just as easily say Obama can’t understand first order national security issues because he’s never fired a rife, flown a plane, commanded men in battle, or faced an enemy? I mean which prepares someone to be commander in chief better, hitting 'send' on AOL or fighting a war?"