Posted on 06/26/2008 12:50:13 PM PDT by chessplayer
On Thursday, CNN's Jeanne Moos made the case that because John McCain is not computer savvy, he's not qualified to be president. She even disgracefully quipped -- as a video of a stripper appeared on the screen! -- "At least John McCain knows the difference between a laptop and a lap dance."
Not surprisingly, she also took the time to demonstrate just how much of a techie Barack Obama is while adding a dash of Bush-bash.
MOOS: While Cindy McCain has been spotted scrolling her BlackBerry, John McCain tends to be handed a BlackBerry to talk on. Barack Obama, on the other hand, is one of those guys so intent on reading his BlackBerry that he could run into something.
He is a BlackBerry fiend says his spokesperson. Has a laptop on the road and sometimes uses it to talk to his daughters and surfs the Web when he is in need of important information such as sports scores.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Would the fairness doctrine require CNN to put on something intelligent 12 hours a day to balance out the absolute stupidity they display at every other time?
LOL!
Be afraid. Remember Dan Quayle and the potato.
IIRC, Quayle went to a school for a photo op. He was asked to participate in a spelling bee. He was handed a card reading: "Potatoe" and he asked a child to spell potato. The child said "P-O-T-A-T-O". Quayle looked at the card he had been handed and said that the child had spelled the word wrong.
Conclusion: Dan Quayle was a moron who was incapable of serving as VP.
Obama uses a blackberry more than McCain??? Lord! Why even have an election -- we have found our winner!!
Oh yeah!?
How many aircraft can Obama fly?
Take that. ;)
I would definitely count his Navy command(s) as executive positions.
I would want a source other than CNN as to what McCain's computer skills actually are.
That said, I still have a few very successful colleagues in their 50's and 60's who are computerphobes.
My parents also refuse to use computers, but that's another story . . . .
Most elderly people I know get into computers because they love to be able to e-mail with their families.
Wait a minute...
Obama surfs the Internet to get information? But...but...I thought he already instinctively know things by virtue of him being the Messiah?!
I’d like to see Barack make a carrier landing. At night.
So I guess every 15 year old in Mom’s basement playing World of Warcraft is even more eligible then Barack.
What you say is true. This stuff makes Mccain look old and outdated.
Face it, Obama is slick as hell, it may lead us to hell, but he is slick and making all the moves.
Oh McCain, where are you? Hello....hello.....
LOL. I read this as Jeanne moo’s. That’s not spelled correctly (it would be Jeanne moos, I think, but the point comes across better above).
Jeanne Moos is the model for the joke about “shaving the hair of of your dog’s butt and teaching him to walk backwards”
I actually have enjoyed and laughed at her little pieces over the years. She tends to show most city people as clueless to the real world we live in.
As far as this particular report. Maybe there's a lot of people like McCain who can barely cope with email. My wife for one.
I'd like to see Obama trip while reading his Blueberry. Could be a Kerry in the bunny suit moment.
Never saw JFK or FDR using a computer either. Were they unqualified?
Never saw JFK or FDR using a computer either. Were they unqualified?
I saw Obama and wife on the cover of US magazine in the check-out aisle today. Both glossy and made-over with cocaine star quality appeal; yes, they would have to be computer literate and having the hippest computer to boot. I’m waiting for the day I’ll see pictures of them entering rehab just like all the other stars — posing with Lindsey Lohan and Brittany, Boy George singing commie, commie, commie chameleon...
A Pres shouldn’t be on computer, on the Internet. He would have staff and would need to ask somebody or just yell down the hall and the answer would be directly forthcoming. The last Pres to answer the White House phone himself was Eisenhower.
Remarks to Ameritech employees in Milwaukee - Pres. Bill Clinton speech - Transcript Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, April 25, 1994
Actually I am not concerned about McCain lack of knowledge with computers. I don’t think that disqualified him. However, McCain not knowing the difference between a Shi’ite and a Sunni, mistaking Putin for a German, and a long list of other gaffes is serious - along with a long list of baggage.
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