Obama’s new politics in action

I’ve known people who can’t use keyboards, but who still use email.

Stupid ad, but not as utterly stupid as this line of chatter would have it.

In Politico, not only does McCain say he can’t use a computer, he goes so far as saying he is illiterate and he needs his wife to help him. It would seem one would need to be computer literate to send an email.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12261.html

If he can’t use a computer because of war injuries, why would he say he is computer illiterate?

If he can’t use a computer because of war injuries, why would he say he is using the computer more and more, and will have getting online “down” soon?

Stupid ad, but not as utterly stupid as this line of chatter would have it.

Actually, it is. According to a Forbes magazine profile written during the 2000 elections, McCain is “regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist” and “is an inveterate devotee of e-mail”, but has his wife Cindy do the typing for him because of his injuries. And that was eight years ago. ..bruce..

Then why does he say he is computer illiterate, Bruce?

I’m confused. If McCain is telling people he can’t use a computer and is illiterate, ala the Politico story, why is this out of bounds for Obama? I suspect the truth is that the people around McCain back in 2000 were extremely tech savvy while the senator himself was not. Anyone who has worked for a senator knows that it’s the people around him (or her) who do all the work anyway.

+1 for David B.

Not using email =/= No knowing how to use email

Let me add a comment on a related topic: An anti-McCain questioner the other day asked Joe Biden if McCain’s lack of promotion in the military should be brought up as a legitimate question. Biden’s response was a defense of McCain. He explained that when you spend years in a POW camp, you tend to get passed over for promotion.