McCain doesn't do email ad - Page 2

Voluntary · 09-17-08, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Sir Loin

He also can't use a typewriter either, which aint really all that mind boggling due to some physical limitations he has.

But somehow Stephen Hawking and blind people can send e-mail. What's next? McCain can't use a phone? If he can't type a sentence on a keyboard, then how can he punch in a phone number?

I will grant McCain the benefit of the doubt that he cannot endure long periods (or even short periods) without pain, but that is no excuse to be completely oblivious of ubiquitous technology.

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I'm pretty sure that if he could sit at a keyboard and operate it without pain, he could likewise master email and the internet. But then he does have a staff to do all that kind of stuff for him.

Master email and surfing the internet is such a challenging task, that it would require a staff.

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Anyway......pretty stupid ad in a season full of them.

Yet, not a blatant lie like McCain made about Obama; that he would raise your taxes. It was to show that McCain is out of touch and not a catalyst for change.

Even though I am not buying into Obama's change, I thought the ad was fair game.

Saboteur · 09-17-08, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Sir Loin

I'm not arguing for anyone to vote for anybody. I pointed out a inconvenient fact related to a really stupid ad. And yes God I'm totally serial. Apparently the Obama campaign thought this was a real hot button issue.

Perhaps, it speaks to me but not as much as the fact that McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns.

RightinNYC · 09-17-08, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Voluntary

But somehow Stephen Hawking and blind people can send e-mail. What's next? McCain can't use a phone? If he can't type a sentence on a keyboard, then how can he punch in a phone number?

I will grant McCain the benefit of the doubt that he cannot endure long periods (or even short periods) without pain, but that is no excuse to be completely oblivious of ubiquitous technology.

Master email and surfing the internet is such a challenging task, that it would require a staff.

Yet, not a blatant lie like McCain made about Obama; that he would raise your taxes. It was to show that McCain is out of touch and not a catalyst for change.

Even though I am not buying into Obama's change, I thought the ad was fair game.

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Originally Posted by Voluntary

I think that a potential world leader who does not have an inkling of knowledge of how to use such an ubiquitous technology as a computer is......mind boggling.

Except everything you just said is completely untrue.

Forbes.com - Magazine Article

(this is from 2000)

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McCain himself was convinced early on that the Internet had to play a critical role in the campaign. Time and again it allowed him to leverage his money and his organization. "In the Virginia primary," McCain told me, "we needed a lot of petitions signed to get on the ballot. We had the form available to download off the Internet and got 17,000 signatures with very little trouble."

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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.

For another 2000 article noting how McCain was the first candiate to recognize the power of the web in politics (back in 1999), go here.

Voluntary · 09-17-08, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by RightinNYC

Except everything you just said is completely untrue.

Nope, nice try. I expect you to back up your claim outside of empty rhetoric.

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Forbes.com - Magazine Article

(this is from 2000)

Yes, I remember 2000--when McCain had a potential illegitimate black child to take of which distracted him from being tech savory.

The article you provided, shows that McCain had a tech savory campaign back in 2000--it didn't show that McCain was computer literate.

What that article did highlight was that Rovian strategies trumped the Maverick. What this election shows, is that the Maverick is now relying upon the same same strategies that worked against him.

Sir Loin · 09-17-08, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Saboteur

Perhaps, it speaks to me but not as much as the fact that McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns.

Neither this ad nor the "how many houses" anyone owns really speak to me in any relevant sense. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

GottaHurt · 09-17-08, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by shuamort

Next up, John McCain doesn't do Pilates.

I was so hoping for the DVD. Pretty funny ****.

aps · 09-17-08, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by shuamort

It's an extremely bad ad and it will probably alienate older voters for Obama who don't do email either. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

I believe I read that the Obama campaign pulled the ad.

RightinNYC · 09-17-08, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Voluntary

Nope, nice try. I expect you to back up your claim outside of empty rhetoric.

Yes, I remember 2000--when McCain had a potential illegitimate black child to take of which distracted him from being tech savory.

The article you provided, shows that McCain had a tech savory campaign back in 2000--it didn't show that McCain was computer literate.

What that article did highlight was that Rovian strategies trumped the Maverick. What this election shows, is that the Maverick is now relying upon the same same strategies that worked against him.

lolwut? Did you even bother to read the quote?

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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.

If you read that and don't conclude that the Obama camp is flat out lying when they claim that he "doesn't know how to use a computer," I don't know what to tell you.

independent_thinker2002 · 09-17-08, 09:01 PM

Look at all the idiots that come here. The internet is like Geico......

....so easy a caveman can do it.

What if the nuclear launch code program is Windows based?

Seriously, a five year old can figure it out. I'm not saying that it's necessary to be President. But I am concerned about a President's lack of intellectual curiosity.

RightinNYC · 09-17-08, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by independent_thinker2002

Look at all the idiots that come here. The internet is like Geico......

....so easy a caveman can do it.

What if the nuclear launch code program is Windows based?

Seriously, a five year old can figure it out. I'm not saying that it's necessary to be President. But I am concerned about a President's lack of intellectual curiosity.

From where are you getting this supposed lack of intellectual curiosity?