2008/09/14

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McCain Is Not Cool Like Barack

clipped by: merrie
clippers remarks: But on the other hand, Uncle Jeremiah and Billy the Bomber are definitely very "fly"

Wondering No More Johan Goldberg

[Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. "Its extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesnt know how to send an e-mail."

The outrage comes from inside: McCains severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

In a similar vein I guess its an outrage that the blind governor of New York David Patterson doesnt know how to drive a car. After all, transportation issues are pretty important. How dare he serve as governor.

Some say, So what if he was handicapped? He could still learn how to send email.

Sure, but why would he? Bill Clinton sent two emails during his entire presidency and often admitted he didnt know squat about the internet.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTliMTNiZjg5ZDEwZWNiZDYwZWFjN2JlNjNjNjkxZmM=
Obama mocks McCain as computer illiterate

John McCain is mocked as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate in a television commercial out Friday from Barack Obama as the Democrat begins his sharpest barrage yet on McCains long Washington career.

Suggested McCain response - they didnt have email for the five and a half years I was a prisoner in Vietnam... OK, maybe not.  [OK, maybe - see UPDATE.]

UPDATE:  So much for my attempt at humor - McCains war injuries make it very difficult for him to type.

But if Obama thinks he has lost the Hopey-Changey mantle to the real reformers who actually take on their own party and work across the aisle, well, this may be worth a try.

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McCains jailers love him!

clipped by: shaor
Clip Source: online.wsj.com

John McCain Has Some Odd Fans:
His Jailers at the Hanoi Hilton


They Play Down Torture and Wish Him Well;
Museum Visitors Want to See His Cell

HANOI -- As a U.S. Navy pilot, John McCain flew 23 bombing sorties over Vietnam before he was shot down and incarcerated in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison camp. The courage he displayed behind bars gave him the aura of a war hero, and it is still powering his electoral appeal.


Yet now, even the jailers who once tortured Sen. McCain are lining up to offer effusive -- if somewhat embarrassing -- endorsements for his presidential candidacy.


Sen. McCain, as a leading advocate of normalizing U.S.-Vietnamese relations after the war, was instrumental in this rapprochement. Hanoi nowadays has an actual Hanoi Hilton hotel within a few blocks of the former prison, as well as Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises and a cowboy-theme nightclub decorated with Confederate banners.



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Hero?

clipped by: lifecyce1898
clippers remarks: From Vietnam Veterans against John McCain


McCain lost five U.S. Navy aircraft

After being periodically slapped around for "three or four days" by his captors who wanted military information, McCain called for an officer on his fourth day of captivity. He told the officer, "O.K., Ill give you military information if you will take me to the hospital." -U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 1973 article written by former POW John McCain

"Demands for military information were accompanied by threats to terminate my medical treatment if I [McCain] did not cooperate. Eventually, I gave them my ships name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant." Page 193-194, Faith of My Fathers by John McCain.

"McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat," explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs

has managed to gloss over his failures as a pilot and collaborations with the enemy by exaggerating his military service and lying about his feats of heroism.


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