Gunpowder Chronicle posted on September 13, 2008 7:16 PM | Rating:
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I'll say this: if anything, the Sarah Palin nomination for VP has done one great thing. We now see The One flailing like a drowning cat trying to recover his "lead" in the presidential race. Having given up momentarily and shifted his fire away from Sarah Palin, he decided to take on John McCain's lack of using a computer as a reason he is unfit to serve as president.
And in doing so, he stomped right on his own "Johnson".
It turns out that McCain does not "use" a computer a lot because of his war injuries. All of those vicious beatings, all of the torture, and the lack of medical care during his imprisonment at the hand of the Vietnamese Communists has made him incapable of typing for periods of time on a keyboard. In fact, we are told in a Forbes article from the year 2000 that he and Cindy McCain regularly spend time reading emails, and that he dictates the answers for her to type.
That Forbes article event went so far as to say: Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email.
Whoops.
It's also an interesting attack, as Jim Geraghty notes at "The Campaign Spot" over at National Review Online. It's more revealing than outrageous in many ways. Does Obama really think he will spend his days zipping off emails and texting on his Blackberry. Probably not. While it might work for O'Guvnah here in the People's Republic of the Patapsco, where he can use PIN code transactions to avoid record archiving laws, it wouldn't work for the President of the United States. After the Rove email fiasco, you can bet that any and every electronic transaction in and out of the White House is being recorded, archived, and saved six ways to Sunday.
And who really things the President of the United States actually has time during his day to sit down and read, filter through, digtest, and reply to email? Anyone ever see a President's daily schedule? Even bathroom breaks are planned in.
Nice job, The One. You really stepped on it there.