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.
"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."