“McCain let endless opportunities for a knockout punch fly by last night at the debate without even looking like he knew the opportunity existed.”
Thats what drove me crazy. He had openings aplenty and wouldn’t try to land a big hit. He let BHO off on a lot of issues in front a gigantic audience. The debate was a wasted opportunity. Heck the big thing that will be remembered from the debate that McCain brought up was that $300 bailout idea of his. Thats what people will remember.
The same way the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defense purposes, how to communicateFirst, we didn't invent the computer assuming by "government" he meant ours. Restricting it to first electronic computer still gives the Brits a win with Colossus in 1944. Restricting it to the first Turing-complete computer was us, with ENIAC. But I doubt Obama knows what that means.
Second, neither was used to communicate. Colossus was a code breaker and ENIAC calculated artillery firing tables.
If we take it to mean he was talking about the Internet instead of computers, he's still wrong. The man with the initial idea was a defense contractor. He then worked for ARPA for a while and then quit. Those who followed him carried the idea forward and hired his old company to actually build the ARPANET. Researchers at universities also contributed to the project, as the first link was between UCLA and Stanford.
And even then it wasn't about communicating, computers could already do that. It was about joining the networks together so you didn't have to, in the example that kicked off ARPANET, log onto three different terminals to talk to three different people.
Obama's statement was wrong in every possible way.