Stand up, Chuck!
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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Stay classy Obama.
Ouch. That’s pretty low if it turns out McCain doesn’t use a computer because of injuries.
Sorry B’rer Obama, but McCain ASKED you not to throw him into that briar patch!
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.
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.
Even if they did, would anyone outside of their 5 viewers hear about it?
Yeah, sort of like Biden asking the guy in the wheel chair to "Stand up, Chuck". The Obama campaign must hate disabled people.
Yeah, I just called this Obama’s “Stand up, Chuck” moment on the other thread.
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.
Stand up, Chuck!
BARACK OBAMA, 1968:
Who in the above photos is 'enjoying freedom'?
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.
I agree. Still it shows they are impervious to their own gaffes vis-a-vis the MSM.
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.
Show the picture of McCain in uniform by his plane. Then write under it...”But he ain’t do email”
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