Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie My 88 year old grandma emails me all the time, despite her pain. McCain seems to be far more mobile than she is. And I think that it is well established that it is not disability that would keep someone from the internet. Blind people can email, quadraplegics can email, Stephen Hawking can email; I think McCain can learn how to send an email.
Originally Posted By woody Okay, Let's hear it for email as a job qualification for president. --- <a href="http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/0529/053_print.html" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/asap/200...int.html</a> This Internet-driven decentralization meant that the McCain campaign could organize down to a virtually block-by-block level for little cost. It allowed a thin organization to compete against the heavily financed and well-organized Bush machine, and it gave McCain campaign dollars an estimated 4-to-1 advantage over Bush greenbacks. McCain himself was convinced early on that the Internet had to play a critical role in the campaign. Time and again it allowed him to leverage his money and his organization. "In the Virginia primary," McCain told me, "we needed a lot of petitions signed to get on the ballot. We had the form available to download off the Internet and got 17,000 signatures with very little trouble." Ultimately, McCain realized he couldn't go the distance, but the message was clear to any political organization with hopes for the future. His Web team had played the Internet like a Stradivari. . . . 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. -- Maybe McCain should take up index finger typing, but does it matter?
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy I thought he was too busy to deal with e-mails before? Now, he's an "inveterate devotee of email?" In his favored town hall meeting setting, he jokes that he doesn't know how to use computers -- which John McCain are we supposed to believe? What does McCain really believe? Will he say absolutely anything to get elected? Sounds like the same sort of junk that got us a President who lies to the American people about WMDs in Iraq if you ask me.
Originally Posted By woody >>I thought he was too busy to deal with e-mails before? Now, he's an "inveterate devotee of email?"<< I said McCain was too busy to use the computer himself and I was right on this point. McCain's disability makes efficient use of the computer difficult. Besides, any busy person has staff (or his wife) to help him out. Anyone can send email. Just like many times, a person might ask me to write/send a letter for them or mail a package or fix the VCR. I know they can do it, but cannot do it with efficiency.
Originally Posted By Mr X Except that's not what he said when he joked that he was "illiterate". Right, Woody? Your argument died a long time ago. Now you're just blathering.
Originally Posted By woody >>Except that's not what he said when he joked that he was "illiterate".<< I never referenced his joke. I have no response to that since you said it was a joke. A joke is a joke, correct? >>Your argument died a long time ago. Now you're just blathering.<< Such irony. You really don't have anything to add. You're truly blathering.
Originally Posted By Mr X Whatever, bro. Get a life. You're way too intense on this stuff. He joked about being computer illiterate. That PROBABLY means he is. Possibly not. It's entirely possible he was just totally lying. He's a proven liar. So, you're probably correct. McCain lied about his computer illiteracy. That would not be surprising, coming from such an accomplished and bold liar.
Originally Posted By woody Mr. X: You taken a leap off the deep end. "Joke" to "Probably Means" to "Liar" Oh my. You're the joke or probably a liar or worse... means to be totally weird.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***"Joke" to "Probably Means" to "Liar" Oh my.*** Yeah. Sounds like the script to a McCain attack ad doesn't it? Except in this case, it's true. Don't trust them, Woody. You are the sucker they are counting on in November. Hear me now and believe me later (I'm sure of that, anyway).
Originally Posted By woody >>Yeah. Sounds like the script to a McCain attack ad doesn't it?<< No, it sounds like what you said in your post. >>Hear me now and believe me later (I'm sure of that, anyway).<< Hmmm.. I'm hearing you now and I will never believe you.
Originally Posted By Mr X Of course not, you closed minded right winger you. It wouldn't be in character for you to actually consider any opposing ideas.
Originally Posted By mawnck I can't find my ding bling original posts about these ads, but ... You guys gotta start listening to me. I don't know much about financial markets, but when it comes to media, I'm ALWAYS right. ;-) <a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/outside-box-ad-moves-voter-sentiments.html" target="_blank">http://www.fivethirtyeight.com...nts.html</a> >>according to a MediaCurves analysis, this [the "Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund" ad] is "the first ad in over a month that seems to have broken through", scoring extremely strongly according to their metrics and shifting a net of 6 points to Obama-Biden among a focus group who viewed the ad ... By comparison, the '1982' ad put together by the Obama campaign itself (technically entitled 'Still') -- their seeming attempt to operate outside the box -- scored rather terribly.<<
