You stay classy, Obama.
I think, with the selection of Joe Biden as his running mate, Obama may have inherited foot-in-mouth disease. Here we have yet another example in Obama’s latest attack ad. It isn’t a very effective ad, but it sure is offensive:
OK, so the McSame crap is old and tired. We get it, Obama. Now illustrate how exactly it is that you are different and shiny and new… aside from having next to no experience at anything whatsoever. Give us some specifics that don’t include lofty rhetoric, soaring speeches, and 463 “uh’s”.
What’s below the belt is the e-mail and computer jab. Anyone know why McCain can’t use a computer and check his e-mail? Well, because of the beatings he received as a POW in Vietnam… you know, broken fingers and all. From The Boston Globe:
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.”
Forbes has this too, although they show that just because McCain doesn’t use the computer personally, he isn’t exactly unfamiliar:
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.
This is where research would come in handy, Obama.
When Obama goes through something that’s even 1/10th as harrowing, debilitating, and painful, then he can start making jabs about McCain not being able to use a computer. Until then, he needs to keep his damn mouth shut on that department.
Why is it Obama attacked McCain on something like that, rather than his policies? Jonah Goldberg sums up the ridiculousness of this attack:
Oh one last point for now: 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?
Excellent point.
Another thought: does Obama think he’s endearing himself to senior citizens with this one? I’m sure that many senior citizens would take offense with this ad, making fun of someone because they’re oooold, and for not being up-to-date with the newest technology. Hell, I’m offended. I’m still on Windows XP, and not entirely interested in upgrading to Vista, so does that mean I should quit blogging because I’m somehow “not qualified”? That’s how idiotic that statement against McCain is.
And does he think it helps with his elitist image? It only serves to make him look even more arrogant and condescending. All he needs to do now is point and laugh, followed by the taunt Loser!. It makes him look like an immature jerk, trying desperately to hold onto his “cool” image. This thing completely backfired in his face.
News flash: being hip and in with the newest fads does not qualify one to be President, Obama. And if you’re trying to show that McCain is so old and busted that he can’t even use that newfangled contraption called the world wide web, you might want to use it correctly yourself before you go around preaching yourself as the new hotness. There’s a thing called a search engine. Perhaps Obama’s team of crack attack-ad makers should try using one before they make their next one.
This whole episode reminds me of this scene from Men in Black 2. Fast forward to about 4:15 in. I think it sums it up pretty well.
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Posted by Cassy Fiano on September 12, 2008 9:08 pm
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“I mean which prepares someone to be commander in chief better, hitting “send” on AOL or fighting a war?”
If it’s the former, then every person on the Internet is qualified to lead. Gotta tell ya, though, I’m not to be president.
Man, what was the Obama campaign thinking? I mean, it’s so stupid and horrible. On top of that, this was so avoidable. The Obama campaign has no right to complain about any attention any sort of backlash gets because they brought it on themselves.
Obama, the guy that can’t order a cheeseburger without a TelePrompter.
Yeah, 1982 – McCain was a footsoldier in the Reagan revolution, had already been a leader of the largest naval air squadron, etc. … and Obama was at this stage of his life:
“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn’t been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn’t make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate’s sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you’d met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. …You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection.” — Barack Obama
except that McCain’s own campaign has said that he is learning how to use a computer. Now, how could that be if it was physically impossible for him to use one?
And don’t forget that Ted Stevens of Alaska was also in charge of regulating the internet and he still thinks it is a series of tubes.
“Man, what was the Obama campaign thinking? I mean, it’s so stupid and horrible. On top of that, this was so avoidable. The Obama campaign has no right to complain about any attention any sort of backlash gets because they brought it on themselves.”
Obama has never run this level of campaign.
At least the Obamedia is pitching in. I’m watching Gibson and the ABC try their best to undermine Governor Sarah Palin. Didnt work. She held her own.
Gosh, it would be nice to see the tough grilling they are giving her … on Obama.
McCain does use email; he just has to keep it short due to his war injuries. For instance, here’s an email he sent the night he named Sarah Palin as his running mate:
From: Maverick@JohnMcCain.com
To: The.One@BarackObama.com
Cc: Slow.Joe@BarackObama.com
Date: August 29, 2008 8:46:59 PM
Subject: Surprise!
Message:
PWNED!!!
To John:
Here’s an article from some two-bit publication, about the kid who leads Obama’s speechwriting team:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/84756
Did you just fail to see it, because you only wanted to hear one side of the story? I guess that’s the end of that.
Sorry, previous should have been addressed to John.