See Obama make fun of the handicapped!

[shirenomad]

This ad (approved by the Obama campaign) claims McCain can't use computers or email. It's correct -- he gets Cindy to type his emails for him -- but it fails to mention why, which this old article does (scroll down to the last six paragraphs).

"McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes."

So no, McCain can't type on a computer. And Franklin Roosevelt couldn't jog, and David Paterson can't drive. Thank you, Barack Obama, for bringing something so important to our attention.

(Meanwhile, here's a much more respectful ad, although it's not officially endorsed by the campaign. Wait for about 1:20 for the payoff... and no, it's not the music.)

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Actually...

[theotherbaldwin.livejournal.com]

He never asked why McCain has trouble with a computer keyboard. He said McCain doesn't know how to use a computer. So did McCain himself in an interview on Yahoo! where, when asked "Mac or PC?" he said that he was a "computer illiterate".

Being computer illiterate in today's world means that you are:

* not responsible for managing your own correspondence
* do not do any of your own research.

would have to have mostly been made up of entirely of either manual labour at someone else's behest, or of telling people what to do.

You can only get away with that if you have teams of people to do stuff for you: prepare your documents, write your letters, do your research, deliver news to your desk and filter your interaction with the outside world, and if you do not get your hands dirty by joining in with that work.

Alsom by his own staff and his own words, he uses a Blackberry (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/13text-mccain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) that belongs to one of his staffers.