About McCain's 'war wounds prevent him using a computer' excuse...

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Just say Karl Rove himself using the, "McCain's war wounds prevent him from using a keyboard" defense.

One of the more admirable incidents in McCain's biography is that after Vietnam he desperately wanted to be returned to active duty. To command a flight squadron, even on the desk level, required a flight certification. So he went through a year or two of very painful physical therapy to regain his flight certification, rather than simply retiring with his disability pension.

And he succeeded! He was re-certified to fly a jet.

Yet a man certified to fly a fighter jet cannot use a computer. Blind people and quadriplegics use computers these days, and certainly could not be flight-qualified. Hmmmm.

You know what this is like? The fucking OJ trial in reverse!

Remember how Johnny Cochran's first line of defense was that OJ's football-hero arthritis was too severe to allow him to cut people's heads off? It wasn't a serious defense. It provoked laughter... OJ was a movie action hero, but we were told he was too disabled to hold a knife??? It was part of a wall of confusing flack thrown up only to provide a wide variety of possible handholds for people to grab onto to justify irrationally taking racial sides in what should be a non-racial controversy.

There is a glaring DNA trail linking McCain to Bush, so they will throw up endless bogus distractions to make the question one of racial solidarity.

[1corona4u]

1. Yep.

Man, they will say anything, won't they.

[npincus]

2. BULLSHIT... even Blind people use computers...

as do those with ALS...

[msongs]

3. didnt stop him from being an adulterer who dumped his wife and children nt

[BlooInBloo]

8. Heh indeedy.

[MNDemNY]

4. Stephen Hawking. That is all.

[npincus]

6. Bingo... I thought of that. If McCain is too infirmed to use a computer

he is unfit to meet the demands of the presidency.

Stupid argument.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Total BS. People can make oil paintings holding brushes in their teeth, yet he can't type?

What a complete load of crap.

[DeschutesRiver]

7. NYT interview - in McCain's own words - he can use one, he is lazy

I am repeating this everywhere because I want it out there - McCain himself said to the NYT that he can use one - sounds like he is just lazy and doesn't get the importance of doing so. Here are McCain's own words, in July, 2008:

Q: What websites if any do you look at regularly?

Mr. McCain: Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously, everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics, sometimes.

(Mrs. McCain and Ms. Buchanan both interject: “Meagan’s blog!”)

Mr. McCain: Excuse me, Meagan’s blog. And we also look at the blogs from Michael and from you that may not be in the newspaper, that are just part of your blog.

Q: But do you go on line for yourself?

Mr. McCain: They go on for me. I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need – including going to my daughter’s blog first, before anything else.

Q: Do you use a blackberry or email?

Mr. McCain: No

Mark Salter: He uses a BlackBerry, just ours.

Mr. McCain: I use the Blackberry, but I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail. I read e-mails all the time, but the communications that I have with my friends and staff are oral and done with my cell phone. I have the luxury of being in contact with them literally all the time. We now have a phone on the plane that is usable on the plane, so I just never really felt a need to do it. But I do – could I just say, really – I understand the impact of blogs on American politics today and political campaigns. I understand that. And I understand that something appears on one blog, can ricochet all around and get into the evening news, the front page of The New York Times. So, I do pay attention to the blogs. And I am not in any way unappreciative of the impact that they have on entire campaigns and world opinion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/13text-mc ...

[Pathwalker]

9. Or you could just show them the fucking photo of George McCain using

a Blackberry AND a cell phone at the same time. Why is that being ignored?