Posted on 09/12/2008 5:50:36 PM PDT by frankjr
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.
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Moving on to South Carolina, the McCain campaign tried to keep its Internet momentum going by hosting a "CyberExpress Fund Raiser." Supporters paid $100 each for 500 slots, enabling them to log into the McCain headquarters in Charleston. They were encouraged to watch via WebTV as the candidate fielded questions and Cindy McCain typed in his responses. Behind her, typing on his own laptop, Fose was monitoring the event while clearing out some of the several thousand emails he was receiving each day.
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Good Grief! Are we sure that Karl Rove isn’t running the Obama campaign?
John McCain to Obama : John “ ohh yeah ? Obama ? just Google it, it’s there “
They need to wheel out handicapped veterans for the apology demand.
Or, as MGD prefers to put it, "he has really nice teeth for a guy with his personality-and it's amazing...they're still originals, too!"
You almost have to wonder if Schmidt doesn’t have a mole in the Zero camp. This latest Zero ad is an OMG moment. How could they possibly have put out something so utterly offensive, stupid, laughable, and immediately debunked at the same time? Talk about “vetting” errors. In my entire life, I’ve never seen a campaign implode in such spectacular fashion before.
Has McCain that magnificent barnacle done another Palin Punch on Ears O Rama?
Did he lay in wait on this this very ad? He should have surrogates hit back hard on this one. It shows a callow youthlike arrogance with mindless intellect who strikes out without thinking.
John McCain obviously can’t use a blackberry or computer for any length of time with some discomfort.
Thank you for sharing this very timely find.
Obama and his minions = dog turds
Yeah, this campaign sure was jerry-rigged.
“Make sure Biden is there. He has a gift with people in wheelchairs.”
The ObaMessiah will speak and the people in the wheelchairs, including Chuck, will stand and walk.
Maybe not, but John McCain sure knows how to take a byte outta Obama.
great find. Thanks
This story need to get out. Everyone reading this thread needs to send the story out to every one in your email address book. Its that important. The election is that important.
And this from Instapundit too:
Friday, Feb. 11, 2000
"Six months ago, no one would have pegged McCain as the most cybersavvy of this year's crop of candidates. 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. In December 1998, he sent his longtime political aide Wes Gullett to Minnesota to study Jesse Ventura's successful gubernatorial campaign, which was the first to use the Web in an effective and innovative way. "Wes went up to Minnesota and talked to Ventura's people," McCain told reporters on the Straight Talk Express yesterday. "That's really where we got the idea."
And don't forget about this:
McCain character loyal to a fault
Boston Globe, March 4, 2000
"McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside:
McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.
Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan - Ted Williams is his hero - but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.
I think you must be referring to Kurt Grove.
“another one of the obama kiddies slander attempts...”
You mean godbama didn’t “approve of this message”? I really like seeing his hand get caught in the cookie jar over and over and over and over again.
bttt
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