Posted on 09/13/2008 8:10:04 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
According to the Associated Press, Obama campaign manager David Pfouffle issued a stern campaign strategy memo Friday that said, in part:
"Today is the first day of the rest of the campaign. We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain's attacks and we will take the fight to him, but we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people."
The "big issues."
Like fractured fingers?
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
I was pretty appalled by the comments too. I hope they don’t reflect the sentiment of most people in this country.
Not being able to type, as a consequence of service to his country, should be ammo to burn the Obama campaign to toast. Note that Palin hasn't seem to have gotten any points for being high tech (using a Blackberry). Not sure if not using the internet would be a bad thing for a President anyway--Russia invades the Ukraine or some other country, and the Pres is supposed to look it up on Wikipedia? Or be breifed by the director of Central Intelligence.
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Actually, the point was that any presidential email would be subpoenable. Considering how fond the Rats are of endless witch hunts and showboat investigations, this makes perfect sense.
Look - I frequently help others when they have questions in my particular area of expertise. If you don’t wish to do so, fine. Perhaps you should go to the DU where your attitude is welcome.
I do not believe something just b/c it is in the press, or just b/c cales59 says so.
Have a good day, and let’s hope McC/P win.
from your mouth to Gods’ ear! God bless you,Doug
The point is NOT whether McCain can or cannot utilize the Internet via means other than using a keyboard.
The POINT is that the juvenile cretins in the Obama campaign would make such a charge without apparently doing even a SECOND of research into why John McCain cannot easily use the Internet.
This, even more than their sneering treatment of Palin, shows what thugs they truly are.
If an Islamo-terrorist gets water up his nose the left wants the President charged with torture in the World Court(literally).
When they see the effects of real torture to an American, they mock the man for his disability.
"Consider: In a single not-very-compelling ad calling McCain a clueless geezer who can't even send email,
the Obama campaign managed to draw attention to his war injuries again, to show that it doesn't even know that the 2000 McCain campaign actually pioneered the insurgent Web tactics that Obama used in the 2008 primary, and to produce an ad that seems tailor-made to alienate voters more than a few years older than Obama, all without providing any actual reason to, you know, vote for Obama.
That's a combination of cluelessness, sloppiness, and narcissism -- it's clear they can't conceive that McCain could have pioneered anything on the Web, and they're probably too young to actually remember the 2000 election -- that seems emblematic of where that campaign has been lately. Hubris coupled with poor execution is not a recipe for success."
Friday, Feb. 11, 2000
Slate and the Industry Standard join forces to examine the effect of the Internet on Campaign 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." "In hopes of replicating Ventura's success, McCain hired as his Internet manager Max Fose, a 28-year-old political consultant he calls a "real geek." Thanks to Fose and Gullett, the McCain campaign has become the most eager experimenter with Web advertising, Web organizing, and Web fund raising. "Even more impressive than the money is the way we can communicate with people," McCain said on the bus. "We can communicate with them eight to 10 times a day. You know how much it cost to communicate with someone eight times a day before the Internet? It's going to change politics."
Just how the heck did anyone get a picture of McCain getting rescued... These folks don't look like the type to just happen to carry a camera on them during war.
Remember, this wasn't a remote lake in the countryside. It was in the city of Hanoi.
But 0bama may be the first to jeopardize presidential security .
Read the caption again from the Library of Congress...Captured not rescued.
Don't mince words with me...
After the SAM struck McCain's plane he was spiraling violently toward earth at over 500 miles per hour. He managed to pull the ejection seat handle blowing him out of his disabled aircraft. He struck part of the plane, breaking his left arm, his right arm in three places, and his right knee. He landed in the middle of a lake in the center of the city. He pulled the life vest toggle with his teeth. In a matter of seconds hundreds of Vietnamese were beating him. Someone smashed a rifle butt into his shoulder, breaking it. Another jabbed him in the ankle and the groin with a bayonet. Fortunately an army truck arrived and he was thrown in the back and taken away from the savage mob. For sure he would have been killed in another minute or so.
If you about to be killed (in one minute or so), you are rescued even if it is into hell. Not like he was gonna walk out of there on his own.. there was not much an underground railroad to rely on was there.
I understand where you are coming from, but I asked a question and didn't expect to be grilled over something so trivial as "rescued or captured" especially when both are relevant.
Wasn't my intention at all...
Also what does “fortunately” mean to you... luckily.... ie.. rescued from death...
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