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Obama campaign ridicules McCain's Disability
Right Wing News ^ | 9/13/08 | pauly cy

Posted on 09/13/2008 5:40:19 AM PDT by paulycy

Much has been discussed about John McCain not being able to use a computer and in an ad from the Barack Obama campaign (shown above) it says, "Can't send an email," referencing McCain. An article in Boston.com from 2000, shows McCain cannot type on a keyboard.

It took a blogger from The Corner less than a day to find an article in Boston.com that references John McCain injuries from Vietnam, showing he cannot tie his shoes, comb his hair properly or "typing on a keyboard," stating it was because of his severe war injuries, which limit his ability to do certain things with his hands... ...One has to wonder if anyone at the Obama campaign knows how to use a search engine.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: disability; electionads; mccain; mccainpalin; mock; obama; obamabiden
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McCain could get a laugh out of this by sending BO an email telling him the charge isn't true, then telling the world about it. No?
1 posted on 09/13/2008 5:40:21 AM PDT by paulycy
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To: paulycy

Stay classy Obama.


2 posted on 09/13/2008 5:42:16 AM PDT by fleagle ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
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Has Obama pulled the add yet? I think if they pull the add they may be able to get by with just a minor gaffe, but if it runs the weekend he couldn't be walking into a bear trap.
3 posted on 09/13/2008 5:42:22 AM PDT by lt.america (Palin was McCain's Midway while Saddleback was his Coral Sea)
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Ouch. That’s pretty low if it turns out McCain doesn’t use a computer because of injuries.


4 posted on 09/13/2008 5:43:09 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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Sorry B’rer Obama, but McCain ASKED you not to throw him into that briar patch!


5 posted on 09/13/2008 5:43:27 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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I watched all of the political shows yesterday, and no one has caught on to this. So I doubt they have pulled the ad yet. I think some stuff will hit the fan when this story gets out. Of course it will be FOX that gets it out. No way will MSNBC ever talk about this.


6 posted on 09/13/2008 5:48:11 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Always Right
Net Vs. Norm ("His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy" 5-29-00 )

In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits.

7 posted on 09/13/2008 5:49:14 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (In VP's, McCain picked the future, Obama chose the past.)
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No way will MSNBC ever talk about this.

Even if they did, would anyone outside of their 5 viewers hear about it?

8 posted on 09/13/2008 5:49:55 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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Ouch. That’s pretty low if it turns out McCain doesn’t use a computer because of injuries.

Yeah, sort of like Biden asking the guy in the wheel chair to "Stand up, Chuck". The Obama campaign must hate disabled people.

9 posted on 09/13/2008 5:54:01 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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Yeah, I just called this Obama’s “Stand up, Chuck” moment on the other thread.


10 posted on 09/13/2008 5:54:59 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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I had a response to my blog that said the story was a lie, and that McCain wasn’t really injured.

They used as “proof” a claim that McCain qualified to fly jets when he got back from Vietnam, and that McCain has been seen dialing a telephone.

I hope all of the left responds that way.

BTW, is it true that McCain qualified to fly jets again when he got back? I hadn’t heard that before.


11 posted on 09/13/2008 5:58:17 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Always Right

Stand up, Chuck!

12 posted on 09/13/2008 5:58:57 AM PDT by maggief (Read my lip-stick!)
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To: paulycy
JOHN McCAIN, 1968:

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BARACK OBAMA, 1968:

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Who in the above photos is 'enjoying freedom'?

13 posted on 09/13/2008 5:59:42 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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LOL


14 posted on 09/13/2008 6:01:41 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: paulycy
It took a blogger from The Corner less than a day to find an article in Boston.com that references John McCain injuries from Vietnam, showing he cannot tie his shoes, comb his hair properly or "typing on a keyboard," stating it was because of his severe war injuries, which limit his ability to do certain things with his hands... ...One has to wonder if anyone at the Obama campaign knows how to use a search engine.

Obama's team knew exactly what they were doing __they knew about McCain's problem --this is their underhanded way of trying to insinuate he won't be able to do his job as president

They knew McCain's defenders would make it known about his problem essentially getting it in front of the public without them doing it
15 posted on 09/13/2008 6:02:34 AM PDT by uncbob
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Actually, Biden’s “Stand Up Chuck” was just a gaffe. He didn’t mean any disrespect. He was given a name of a dignatary, and like all politicians was expected to treat the person like a long-lost friend.

It just revealed the game. Biden probably hadn’t met the guy, and when he said his name he had no idea who in the audience it was. It wasn’t until someone pointed him out that Biden knew he was in a wheelchair.

And Biden handled it very well (although having everybody else stand up for the guy was actually insensitive to people with disabilities, it wasn’t purposeful).

In this case, Obama had to prepare this commercial, and pay for it. IT’s not some “gaffe”, it is a premeditated mistake.

Remember, the commercial was already offensive. It mocked McCain for a perception that he was clueless about technology. It mocked old people who don’t use computers.

It was also false because McCain IS technologically savvy, and does use a computer. Even the article that Obama hung this commercial on said so, so Obama’s take on it in his commercial would have been cited by factcheck as false.

Now we add onto that that Obama is attacking McCain for his war injuries, and that the commercial has Obama’s own voice approving it, and this is a serious, premeditated error which shows a callous disregard by Obama for the truth, as well as putting a lie to his self-proclaimed “post-partisan, positive campaign”.

There is no way for anybody to spin this commercial as anything but a mocking, petty personal attack on McCain’s personal life. “Doesn’t know how to use e-mail”? What a stupid thing to say — All you do is type some words and hit a button. Obama HAD to know that McCain would know HOW to use e-mail.


16 posted on 09/13/2008 6:04:45 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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And Biden handled it very well (although having everybody else stand up for the guy was actually insensitive to people with disabilities, it wasn’t purposeful).

I agree. Still it shows they are impervious to their own gaffes vis-a-vis the MSM.

17 posted on 09/13/2008 6:09:58 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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This is a serious Obama mistake. It shows not only insensitivity for a disability (a great moral failing in the liberal worldview), it also points to a hugh flaw in Obama's character, one which clearly disqualifies him as a "sensitive" talker and negotiator who seeks to avoid physical confrontation (war) by resorting to diplomacy. Nothing could be more undiplomatic than criticizing someone for a physical disability.

If the McCain campaign can play this right--not heavy handed--that physical disability was achieved in service to country, they should be able to discredit Obama as an opportunistic charlatan.

18 posted on 09/13/2008 6:14:15 AM PDT by nonsporting
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Show the picture of McCain in uniform by his plane. Then write under it...”But he ain’t do email”


19 posted on 09/13/2008 6:24:33 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIlzAyueow


20 posted on 09/13/2008 6:25:12 AM PDT by tsowellfan
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