Adviser claims that McCain, who doesn't use a computer or e-mail, helped create the BlackBerry

[Nambe]

Source: AP

MIAMI (AP) _ Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.

At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain's work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."

McCain has acknowledged that he doesn't know how to use a computer and can't send e-mail, one of the BlackBerry's prime functions.

Holtz-Eakin's argument is similar to one advanced by Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000. Gore once boasted about "taking the initiative to create the Internet" through technological and educational policies. He later was mocked for claiming to have invented the Internet, although he never made such a claim. ...

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-mccain-blackberry,0,176445.story

[valerief]

1. I imagine he ate blackberry once. That must count for something, right?

:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. He can't send an e-mail but invented a device that can?

What a Maverick!

[fascisthunter]

3. lol...... that idiot couldn't create a sand castle

his type just cannot create much of anything... his type just steals, takes and destroys. This truly is the difference between Republicans and Democrats in general.

[hisownpetard]

4. No, no. that's a mistake. He didn't invent the Blackberry - he invented the blueberry!

Had a little help from his friend, some guy named Adam.

[FightingIrish]

5. No. He actually invented the dingleberry.

[angstlessk]

6. what a fricking joke.."put him at the intersection" in other words..he

voted with the majority not even knowing what the hell he was doing? SCARY SHIT!!! Al Gore knew exactly what he was doing as he promoted the internet to go public.

[Gillian]

7. Obama shouldn´t touch that. They are setting him up.

McCain didn´t say it so it will give him a chance to clarify the statement and then brag that even though he is not a geek, he has always supported the advancement of technology and will continue to do so. This will take the steam out of the fact that his is tech illiterate.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. ROFL

Yeah, that's what should happen!

:rofl:

God, aren't you embarrassed yet?

[AlphaCentauri]

9. No, no, no, he invented the morse code

[unblock]

10. yeah, in his case: ...---... about 5 times, according to navy records

:rofl:

[AlbertCat]

11. I thought he invented Sanskrit.

Ooooohm!

[AlphaCentauri]

30. I would say the Abacus but that is a sophisticated machine

no way

[BlueIdaho]

12. Now that you mention it - he looks like Thomas Edison! nt

[ellie]

13. I thought that was an Onion

article.

[TrogL]

14. Teh Blackberry was developed by Research in Motion, a Canadian company

http://www.rim.com/company/maps/index.shtml

McCain lives in Toronto???

[tblue]

25. Maybe he can see that company from one of his 9 mansions!

That's as good as inventing it, right?

[Twinguard]

27. Ooh! Snap!!

Now that's funny!

[proud2BlibKansan]

31. The guy who actually did invent the Blackberry

sued that company and won millions. Jim Slattery, who is running for Senate in Kansas (against Pat Roberts) is an attorney who represented the guy. It's actually an interesting story and Slattery is telling it as he campaigns because Pat Roberts is accusing him of being an evil trial lawyer.

[dipsydoodle]

15. I could believe it if they'd said

he ate a tin of beans and blew a rasberry but that's about it.

[jfkraus]

16. RIM Job

I guess he didn't know the BlackBerry was invented by a Canadian company called Research In Motion (RIM). Oops.

[boilinmad]

17. He's also...

....a POW, in case you've never heard.

[Politicalboi]

20. Your right he was a POW

The idea probably came to him while being penned up. So MaGoo is ahead of his time. Wow! Who knew.

[truthisfreedom]

18. Holtz-Eakin continued waving at the sky, the earth, and the ocean in the background, claiming that

McCain was responsible for everything they could see...

[PeaceNikki]

19. oh. dear. god.

[DavidDvorkin]

21. But Gore was telling the truth.

[tblue]

26. Yes, he sure was.

[chat_noir]

22. when the rightwing jackboots start in on Gore, quote from this article

http://www.firstmonday.org/ISSUES/issue5_10/wiggins/


Mr. Gore, I salute you!

[undeterred]

23. He thought of the name while he was eatin' pie.

:shrug:

[Hugin]

24. OMG!!i! McSame invented e-mail SPAM?!?!11!

Get 'em!

[Swede]

28. The Blackberry is made in Canada.

Al Gore was instrumental in developing the internet.

[Festivito]

29. WRONG GORE QUOTE: "in creating" not invented, not to create.

Gore's words "in creating" mean during the creation,
not beginning the creation as in inventing,
not to create as in to create before it was created.

Gore was saying he worked on the Internet while it was being created, which he did, and did well.

Newsday is just another lying RW love money more than America paper pusher whose print is not worth the paper on which I've make and indentation of crack each morning from between my butt cheeks.

[MuscleBear]

32. I want a large supply of whatever

drugs the Repukes are taking.

Their delusions are AWSOME!

[LynnTheDem]

33. And what does that foreign nation called CANADA say about this?

Man, republicans lie like sidewalks. :rofl:

[kitty1]

34. Blackberry created in Waterloo, Ontario Canada by RIM.....

Research in motion. The company was founded in 1984. McCain's advisor has been hitting the happy weed again I think.