and the RATS, take another one in the.................................HA ha!!!
Posted on 09/13/2008 4:45:29 AM PDT by Mike Fieschko
CHARLESTON, S.C.—In the first "Net Election" column back in September, I made the prediction that the Internet probably would not have a decisive impact on the 2000 presidential race. The best shot at proving me wrong now belongs to John McCain. ...
At 63, he is the oldest of the bunch and because of his war injuries, he is limited in his ability to wield a keyboard. But McCain's job as chairman of the Senate commerce committee forced him to learn about the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos fascinate him. Well before he announced his exploratory committee, McCain had assimilated the notion that the Web could be vital to the kind of insurgent, anti-establishment campaign he wanted to run. ...
McCain hired as his Internet manager Max Fose, a 28-year-old political consultant he calls a "real geek." Thanks to Fose and Gullett, the McCain campaign has become the most eager experimenter with Web advertising, Web organizing, and Web fund raising. "Even more impressive than the money is the way we can communicate with people," McCain said on the bus. "We can communicate with them eight to 10 times a day. You know how much it cost to communicate with someone eight times a day before the Internet? It's going to change politics."
Last night McCain participated in another Web first: the first-ever "cyberfundraiser." ... Simply put, it is Web money that has enabled his campaign to remain economically competitive with George W. Bush. ...
[At the cyberfundraiser] the candidate's answers were broadcast by streaming media to the participants. The dialogue was punctuated with live polls ...
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Slate: those Right Wig Reactionaries!
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Too funny. Obama really stepped in it.
Gullett, in the article excerpt, is Wes Gullett, a McCain political aide he sent to Minnesota “to study Jesse Ventura’s successful gubernatorial campaign, which was the first to use the Web in an effective and innovative way.” (quoting the article).
It's mea culpa time. You were 100% dead wrong.
man I hope this story has traction....to make fun of a war hero cuz he is incapable of using a keyboard may be the downfall of Obama...you can’t make this stuff up
Let's see...... McCain was born in 1936, it's now 2008.... 2008 minus 1936 equals 63. Yup, no credibility question here......
Maybe I misunderstand, but this article was published in 2000, so McCain would’ve been 63 or so when the article came out.
Comment from someone on the ‘Minefield’ article:
“He does have a Blackberry there are photos of him using it, and he’s spoken of it before. But he is a frail older man. That we have to consider.”
Frail older man! Good one.
Yes, the article says he was 63.
The problem is easily solved. Did Arizona suffer in the IT sphere because of McCain?
The other problem is also easily solved: have the oceans begun to recede and the planet begun to heal after Obama’s victorious primary? He did say “THIS is the moment”... Lasers and satellites should be able to measure any improvement.
See post #8. (Tired, long day).
Qualifications for president:
Sara Palin, “I’m Governor of Alaska”.
Obama, “I can send email”.
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