John McCain...e-mail...and the end of Barack Obama

The Corner on National Review Online

Yep. The day after 9/11, as part of its "get tough" makeover, the Obama campaign is mocking John McCain for not using a computer, without caring why he doesn't use a computer. From the AP story about the computer illiterate ad:

"Our economy wouldn't survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats," [Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. "It's extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail."

Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by "extraordinary." The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):

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.

Way to go, Obama. Can't do enough research before you attack someone to know that your insulting a man for not using e-mail when the reason he can't use e-mail is because he can't use a keyboard because his hands don't work well enough because his captors beat him so badly while he was imprisoned while serving his country!! Idiot!

How about you just go back to organizing your community and pretending to be the second coming. This is getting ridiculous!

By the way, a friend of mine asked me today. How come Barack Obama's too stupid to fly a plane. George W. Bush and John McCain both know how to fly fighter jets...

Hillary to replace Biden??

Hearing more and more rumors about Obama replacing Biden with Hillary for VP. This could just be wishful thinking on the part of some after Biden's comments this week.

If it turns out to be true, would that be pandering? Nah!

Stay tuned.

NYT: Why Not A Non-Senator Woman As VP?

It's always nice when you can you someone's own words against them. This is a beautiful job of unearthing what the NY Times editorial staff wrote over 24 years ago. You've come a long way, baby!

NYT: Why Not A Non-Senator Woman As VP? Sweetness & Light

New York Times Editorial

July 3, 1984, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition

On one side, Walter Mondale has been hearing some infuriating demands. If he wants to win in November, feminists are saying, he has to nominate a woman to run with him. Otherwise, as Judy Goldsmith, president of the National Organization for Women, said the other day, ”I don’t know how we can go out to women and say ‘Here’s something to work for.’ ”

...to be shrill is no worse than to be righteous, like the people who insist that the women Vice Presidential candidates so far proposed lack the requisite standing and experience. Why, it is said, none of them is even a senator.

Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President? Surely Ronald Reagan does not subscribe to that maxim. Or where is it written that mere representatives aren’t qualified...

Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial?

...Remember the main foreign affairs credential of Georgia’s Governor Carter: He was a member of the Trilateral Commission...

Why shouldn’t a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow? We may even be gradually elevating our standards for choosing Vice Presidential candidates. But that should be done fairly, also. Meanwhile, the indispensable credential for a Woman Who is the same as for a Man Who - one who helps the ticket.

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So this is what they've come up with? John McCain doesn't use e-mail??
Yeah, that's gonna work.