This old man, he’s not cool:
McCain “can’t send an email?” [says Obama ad] That’s true, actually, as Jonah Goldberg explains:
The reason he doesn’t send email is that he can’t use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 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.
Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan – Ted Williams is his hero – but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.
From the man who says it’s time to make government cool again.
Actually, McC knows a lot about computers, Power Line further explains:
This excerpt from a 2000 Forbes article about McCain’s pioneering web-based campaign is noteworthy:
In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email.
His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.
Forget Sarah. Is O. ready to be president?
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Later: In the spirit of Nyaa, nyaa, when read B. wrote:
something stinks. right now, as i write you, my elbows are touching my waist. my forrearms are on a small slant upwards as i type on my laptop on the kitchen table. my shouldders are as far down as anyone’s shoulders go. so jonah is lying and stretching as he usually does. john mccain is simply an old fart who doesn’t want to know or try out anything the least bit new… bottom line, your shoulders do NOT ever have to go up at all to send an email.. and i am insulted that they are trying to say otherwise as my shoulders are as down and immobile as any human being’s as i write this email to you. –b
I responded:
This one got you, I see. Jonah does not lie here, nor does he usually. Read his Liberal Fascism (HG Wells’s phrase meant to put a smiling face on f.). If McC is an old fart, what am I, older than he? And why is he “savviest” on technology? You have not worn his shoes, so shut up. He does not wave at crowds, have you noticed? So shut up.
Clever, eh?
Blithe Spirit 