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Obama Ad Ridicules McCain over War Injuries
AOL News ^ | 9/12/2008 | Mark Impomeni

Posted on 09/12/2008 7:52:47 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy

In its zeal to get tough on Sen. John McCain, who has taken the lead in the presidential race, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign released a television ad today, titled "Still," making fun of Sen. McCain for being old fashioned. In the ad, the Obama campaign says that McCain hasn't changed much since he went to Congress in 1982, to make the case that McCain's campaign does not represent change. But the campaign crossed a line when it ridiculed McCain because he "can't send an e-mail," and unwittingly embroiled itself in another controversy that will throw the campaign off message. The charge is true, McCain cannot send e-mails. But the reason, which the Obama campaign clearly did not take the time to investigate, is that because of his Vietnam War injuries, suffered at the hands of his tortuous North Vietnamese captors, Sen. McCain cannot type on a keyboard.

The Boston Globe reported the details in an article first published in March 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.aol.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; bo; democrat; democrats; electionads; elections; gaffe; injuries; keyboard; mccain; nobama08; obama; pow; veteransvote; wia
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To: jakerobins
Your Grandma needs to take you over her knee and use her belt to Whoop some sense into you! Teach you some manners and respect for older folks.

Not likely. He's got her safely locked up somewhere.

Senator McCain's mother, who is 96, was at the RNC convention to support her son, a feisty lady, but Obama's grandmother has been nowhere in sight since the campaign began.

She's probably being held in a padded cell somewhere in Hawaii, to keep her from talking.

61 posted on 09/12/2008 8:36:49 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Sheer genius of Karl Rove, planting those deep cover moles in the Democrat party apparatus! I wonder how many of them Obama has on his staff. Do you think Plouffe is one? What fortitude it must take to hang around barking moonbats all the time and pretend to be one yourself, all the while knowing it’s for the greater good of the GOP and the USA! I couldn’t do it. I’d go mad the first week.

(Nothing like instilling a little inward-looking paranoia in the opposition so they tear each other apart.)


62 posted on 09/12/2008 8:37:07 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (For real change stop electing lawyers: Fighter-Pilot/Hockey-Mom '08.)
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To: jakerobins

Ditto every thing you wrote. RIGHT ON! Thank you.


63 posted on 09/12/2008 8:40:51 PM PDT by CaliGirl-R
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To: The_Reader_David

I wonder what the losers at the DUmpster are saying?
lol


64 posted on 09/12/2008 8:40:51 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: The_Reader_David

Remember the words of Sarah Palin: There is only one man who has really fought for us in this election.


65 posted on 09/12/2008 8:41:29 PM PDT by goodolemr
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To: pangaea6

**I don’t think an apology is in order ***

Insulting a vet based on his injuries requires an apology, in my view. If this person were simply disabled, not from wounds suffered from torture, would Obama owe an apology?

Sure he would.

And even more so in this case.

MOCKING the handicapped. Good Move.


66 posted on 09/12/2008 8:41:44 PM PDT by bajabaja
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To: Thane_Banquo

You know, Joe Biden is a decent man and if he had any decency left, he’d tell Obama to find another running mate..

What Obama did is tantamount to laughing at a blind man, or belittling a guy in a wheelchair, or refusing to help a lady who fell down and can’t get up again...Obama is beyond stupid. He is clueless, heartless, and a true sadistic thug at heart..He should go back under the rock he came from...

He did Hillary a favor by not choosing her..


67 posted on 09/12/2008 8:42:45 PM PDT by billmor (Friday:Red Shirt Day- silent no more..,McCain and Palin-the right team for '08)
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To: xuberalles

Great graphic, and quick. You’re good!


68 posted on 09/12/2008 8:44:30 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Wilhelm Tell
The gimmicrats made fun of folks with cancer already. Remember the Snow Man? (Tony Snow) Class act, that bunch.
69 posted on 09/12/2008 8:46:55 PM PDT by ashtanga
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To: jakerobins
He’s old.

...and may look even older due to the time in prison camp and the torture. Those photos of his return are telling.

Salute to you, Mr. McCain.

70 posted on 09/12/2008 8:49:04 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for McCains, Palins and the USA...and the rest of us, too.)
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To: snarkytart

The DUmmies don’t seem to have noticed. At least there are no threads on their main discussion page with titles hinting they think anything has gone amiss with Obama’s new ‘shaper tack’.

(Quite frankly I think Obama’s proving he’s not the sharpest tack in the box, but maybe it really is GOP moles, who knows.)


71 posted on 09/12/2008 8:51:16 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (For real change stop electing lawyers: Fighter-Pilot/Hockey-Mom '08.)
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To: j_k_l
Great pick. I think this is the Juanita"...better put some ice on that" pic:


72 posted on 09/12/2008 8:58:35 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA (..)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
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73 posted on 09/12/2008 8:58:45 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: jakerobins

“But Men like McCain did fight and bleed and some died so your stupid arrogant campaign could ridicule the man for his injuries.”

I agree completly with your post jakerobins.

The entire Democrat party owes John McCain and all the American vets an apology. They need to stand and loudly state: “We apologize for nominating this fool. We are ashamed of our choice. We will try to do better next time. We honor your service and remain indebted to your sacrifice.”


74 posted on 09/12/2008 8:58:46 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: woofie
Obama is just like this character in this year 2000 movie ( Tribulation ). Played by Nick Mancuso in Tribulation
75 posted on 09/12/2008 8:58:56 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Oh good grief!

This is even worse than calling non-computer users idiots, which he did as well.

So he mocked a war veteran who can’t type on a keyboard and called elderly and/or non-computer users idiots. Yeah Obama, keep ‘em coming!


76 posted on 09/12/2008 8:59:57 PM PDT by autumnraine (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
" EXPOSURE is what these Liberal human waste fear the most. Take the truth to the American people and they will turn on this Marxist slime and his cohorts including the drive-by media. Hit them hard with national ads exposing their gutter tactics and then hit the Messiah with the truth about his Chicago mob ties and tactics. "

77 posted on 09/12/2008 9:00:53 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: j_k_l

I think we now know what Obama and Clinton talked about on their closed door meeting.

“Hey - Barak - Here is an ad I think you should run with.”

“Gee Thanks Bill. I will get right on it!”

Maybe we should all write to Bill and tell him he is too great a guy to be affiliated with Obama.


78 posted on 09/12/2008 9:03:24 PM PDT by Misschuck
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To: Upstate NY Guy
" If Obama and staff have so much computer savvy why didn’t they know this before running the add? "

McCain to Obama " Got Google ?? " ... Just Google it "
79 posted on 09/12/2008 9:06:24 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: Tempest

It was deliberate. The original story was published in the Boston Globe 8 years ago and was easily found with a search.

If you remember, the same thing happened with Clinton and his surrogates mocking Bob Dole and his war injuries requiring him to hold a pencil. They yukked it up over that one and skated free.

Clinton also liked to mock the seniors and made hay out of Bush I and Dole being elderly. That was in 1995.

It makes you wonder what exactly Obama and Bill discussed in that office in Harlem.

This ain’t 1995.


80 posted on 09/12/2008 9:09:54 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Obama thanks McCain for not questioning his Muslim faith)
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