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Harry Reid: People Aren’t Educated on How to Use the Internet
The Washington Free Beacon ^

Posted on 03/26/2014 10:39:12 AM PDT by don-o

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said the fault of struggling to sign up on the Obamacare exchanges didn’t lie with the faulty website, but with the people who weren’t “educated on how to use the Internet.”

Explaining the reasoning behind the latest Obamacare delay, Reid said too many people just didn’t know to use their computer properly and needed more time. Apparently, it had nothing to do with the well-documented failings of the website that have embarrassed the White House for months.

“We have hundreds of thousands of people who tried to sign up who didn’t get through,” he said. “There are some people who are not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the Internet, and these people need a little extra time. It’s not — the example they gave us is a 63-year-old woman came into the store and said, ‘I almost got it. Every time I just about got there, it would cut me off.’ We have a lot of people just like this through no fault of the Internet, but because people are not educated on how to use the Internet.”

It’s just the latest strange moment for the embattled Reid,

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dims; dingyharry; dumbocrats; harryreid; internet; liberalmeatheads; rats; reid; wheresmydroolcup
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To: driftdiver

I worked with sex offenders who had been through treatment. One thing they learned was that sex offenders speak softly ( like Reid); but not all people who speak softly are sex offenders.


21 posted on 03/26/2014 10:47:53 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: don-o

Ignorance about the internet is shown in those who think it takes more than half billion dollars to build such a website.

I used http://ehealthinsurance.com to buy an HSA in 2006. Too bad that technology has been lost.


22 posted on 03/26/2014 10:48:54 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: Secret Agent Man

Harry the Red doesn’t need to test his knowledge of the Internet on the obamaCare websits — he’s exempted himself.


23 posted on 03/26/2014 10:48:57 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: don-o

OMG, the milennials know how to use the internet.

I do like it when he insults them though. Maybe they can see who the democrats are.

I doubt it though.


24 posted on 03/26/2014 10:49:35 AM PDT by dforest
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To: don-o

It’s like a series of tubes...


25 posted on 03/26/2014 10:50:08 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: glennaro

That would be a fun test. Let’s grab a random uninsured 27-year-old and have him and Reid both try to sign up for a policy on Healthcre.gov at the same time, and see who can get done first (assuming either can at all).


26 posted on 03/26/2014 10:50:52 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Jon Carry served in Vietnam. In case you’ve forgotten. I think his tour of duty lasted about one day, the day he won 3 Purple Hearts.


27 posted on 03/26/2014 10:52:00 AM PDT by jayrunner
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To: don-o

If only Gore had designed the internet to be more user-friendly.


28 posted on 03/26/2014 10:53:03 AM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: don-o
Things haven't been the same since they took the dials off of all the telephones.

-PJ

29 posted on 03/26/2014 10:54:54 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: don-o

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Caesar says, “The fault lies in ourselves, not in our stars, that we are underlings.”

Translation to Harry R. “Look in the mirror, dumkauf.”


30 posted on 03/26/2014 10:54:55 AM PDT by jayrunner
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To: don-o

Must be Harry doesn’t check those Internets much himself, otherwise He’d know there are plenty of middle aged to older people posting some real pointed comments to his facebook page.


31 posted on 03/26/2014 10:55:04 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: don-o

How much will knowledge and experience help you when you click on a button and nothing happens, or you get an error message?

How much will knowledge and experience help you when you fill out a series of forms and discover that everything you typed in has disappeared?

How much will knowledge and experience help you when the website tells you that you are enrolled, but the insurance company knows nothing about it?


32 posted on 03/26/2014 10:55:51 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: VanDeKoik

America Online, isn’t that where everyone gets their Email?


33 posted on 03/26/2014 10:57:20 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: don-o
‘I almost got it. Every time I just about got there, it would cut me off.’

Excellent. I'll use this line on my Tax Return to see if the IRS will accept it.

*wheresmydroolcup*

34 posted on 03/26/2014 10:58:11 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: don-o

Harry ends up at a porn site every time he googles “Cow boy poetry”


35 posted on 03/26/2014 10:59:39 AM PDT by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: don-o
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36 posted on 03/26/2014 11:03:29 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice. And Pay Your Liberty Tax Citizen.)
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To: don-o

Some people just don’t have the mental capacity to use the internet. Most are democrat voters.


37 posted on 03/26/2014 11:03:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: don-o

easy.. set your home page to The Drudge Report and make a favorites link to Free Republic and you have just about everything you need on the internet :)


38 posted on 03/26/2014 11:04:28 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: don-o

“It’s a poor workman who blames his tools.” Harry Reid is a tool.


39 posted on 03/26/2014 11:05:07 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: don-o

Aren’t there some white-coated gentlemen waiting to take this guy back to the bug-house?


40 posted on 03/26/2014 11:07:37 AM PDT by onedoug
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