You guys are really reaching on this one. Did you just get your Inspector Gadget Extendo-Arm shipment in today?
To break it down into simple terms for simple people: McCain can fly a fighter jet, but he can’t use a computer. This is an indication of his disinclination to learn to use a computer, not an indication that the motor skills are the same. Your boy is stuck in the distant past, and isn’t a leader for the 21st Century. Period.
According to a story on comcast.net of all places, the ad says:
Here is a video (if you can look past the Huffington Post url) of McCain saying that he’s illiterate when it comes to computers and relies completely on his wife. The fact that he says “illiterate” and not “unable” when it comes to computers is key. The video is apparently of a reporter from Yahoo news asking several of the then-Republican candidates during the primary season about various things.
So you’ll just be keeping track of requests for a cite, not actually providing a response to them? That’s kind of bad form, and not really the way things are done here.
So, you feel it’s possible that a man with the motor skills to pilot an airplane lacks the motor skills to type on a keyboard?
I’ve seen students who are so crippled with CP they can only move one hand and barely that surf the Internet. Spare me the “phony outrage” that Obama’s mocking his supposed “disabilities” preventing him from using a computer.
Note that the McCain campaign’s own response is that McCain travels with a laptop. I tend to think it’s a dumb ad, but this is ridiculous excuse making.
Go on keep ignoring the fact there’s plenty of technology to enable McCain to use a computer.
But by doing so you’re remaining just as willfully ignorant as McCain, and dishonest like him too.
Surely since he has more houses then he count he can afford to get a fucking $10 dollar microphone.
Ooh ooh … let me answer for Cad and Monty;
“Oh yeah! Well just because he travels with it, doesn’t mean he can lift his hands above his shoulders to use it. Why do you hate America?”
From Mcain interview in the NYT:
The fact is that if your fact were actually a fact, Saint Cad, Mr. McCain could not reasonably expect to get online himself “fairly soon.”
Was McCain lying in this interview, or do you have your facts screwed up?
The stupidity of this post is just incredibly astounding and insulting to anyone with any degree of intelligence. Typing on a normal or special keyboard is much easier than handwriting or driving a car or flying an airplane. Some disabled people who cannot handwrite can manage to type on a keyboard. And, as has been said, even people who cannot type can use computers by using voice or other ways. The fact is that McCain does not know how to use a computer because, well, he never bothered to learn. That’s why.
But if having served in Vietnam and having suffered injury and trauma are qualifications for being US president then I am sure there are men even more qualified. Find someone who los both legs and arms and brain in a mine explosion and was left in a vegetative state. I have no doubt he would make a better president than McCain. No doubt whatsoever.
The actual answer is that for five years John McCain didn’t even have access to a computer, plane, or pen.
I’m not John McCain, but I approve this message.
Stephen Hawking seems to manage using a computer fairly well.
http://www.hawking.org.uk/text/disable/computer.html
Any response Saint Cad or Monty?
Hijack not intended, but why would either one of them use a computer given the security risks? Whether the communications would be covered under executive privilege wouldn’t really matter to hackers, domestic or foreign. I’m not talking about only top super secret documents etc… I’d not want even my google history to be public fodder.
Monty, Cad, may I ask for some clarification?
Forget the Obama ad and its implications/fairness for a moment. I’m wondering about an initial premise: Are you (or the collective you, whichever you may prefer), stating that:
Due to injuries sustained during his life, John McCain is physically unable to use a computer for any purpose; that if not for these purely physical limitations, he would have been able to use a computer to the extent a typical high-powered businessperson does: MS Word, possibly Excel, Outlook or other email client, basic Internet usage (e.g., visit news sites, has ability to use Google or Yahoo to find information) or some combination thereof.
The implicated question, whether a politician should know about dancing hamsters, All Your Base, or the reliability debate between Wiki and EB, is completely secondary to my request for clarification.
My only question is if Cad manufactured this latest fake outrage himself, or if somebody like Limbaugh or Coulter brewed it up and he just blindingly drank it down. Anybody hear this shit-nugget before this thread?
It’s Jonah “Liberal Fascism” Goldberg’s creation.
I’m sure that for sensitive information, there’s some kind of intranet that’s not connected to the outside world.
Besides that, computers are still useful for word processing and archiving/passing along info (through, say, DVDs).
So if using a computer is difficult for him to use, McCain needs to damn well learn to use it anyways rather than have family or aides get the needed information?
What compassion from the Demos. I don’t care if it hurts to type - freaking use the computer anyways! Don’t ask your wife to pull up Explorer and type in the URL for NYTIMES.com to look it over.
or
Type with your fucking toes or use voice recognition. Don’t have an aide type up an email for you to look over.
You know, mate, I often wonder, what is it about political season that causes people to become so entirely unmoored from rational thought. The US is terribly entertaining though.
But the mate ain’t a bloody cripple, he threw ball out for your national pasttime, eh?
Edit to add (bloody wonderful this innovation):
It would make more sense if you went after the sheer idiocy of the idea of attacking the bugger for not using email, I mean that’s just bloody pitiful. The whole cripple thing demeans your man (and is plain dumb to boot), mate, but make into snobbish Left bollocks, and you’ve got gold.
