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You are right. It's not about age, it is because he is not curious -- his mind is offline.
http://charlotteanne.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/t...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2I0t_Twk0
Dave
I think that is perhaps the funniest sentence (and very true, as well) sentence you've written a long time. It made me spit out my own oatmeal in laughter. Thank you for that.
I had no idea (and I thought I was paying attention) that Palin had so little experience traveling outside of the United States. I am now beginning to really believe I am more qualified for this position than she despite my rather shady history of traveling with the Grateful Dead and questionable mental stability. (At least that means I've traveled and you might actually get two people for the price of one!).
I'd also like to add that my very ancient great uncles are all quite savvy users of the Internet and tote around their own laptops (they read my blog and many others) and even trade stocks. If they can do it at 90-plus years old, I think McCain could certainly manage. I imagine he's just too stubborn to bother to learn how. Which then begs the question, "What other things will he be too stubborn to bother to learn?"
Not only is he as much of a war hero as Senator McCain, he is also better educated. Although Annapolis is an excellent school, my grandfather is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton School of Business, considered to be the toughest business school in the world.
My grandfather is not what I'd call computer literate (He retired at age 75 because it became clear that he would need to learn a computer), but in the last few years he's learned to do google searches, turn his machine on, and check on his investment portfolio, as well as buy books from amazon, look up movie showtimes, and keep in contact with other 8th Air Force veterans.
Although I think him slightly more qualified than John McCain, my grandfather is far too old to be president in the twenty-first century. He has been since he was about 65. And I think my parents, in their mid-fifties, are starting to become severely out of touch. They once described facebook to a friend as a website designed for kids to document their crimes (without a hint of humor).
http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/0529/053_print....
Many of us were commenting back then on his use and understanding of the social web and how he was one of the first to really tap into it.
Our candidate has become surrounded by people telling him to react to Republicans, instead of being Barack Obama. It is not helping matters that our friends in the media, which even I have to admit have been kind to our guy, are now making us look foolish by their excesses in the trivial.
Obama could call a press conference at any time and refocus the debate into substantive issues. There was simply no excuse for the campaign to waste time and political capital on this silly ad. All that does is give a week's worth of fodder for Olbermann/O'Reilly and all the rest.
We can't blame the Republicans for the distractions this things is causing. Obama - bring back YOUR people to the campaign.
Obama's campaign staff has too many of the same-old political types, and the message of change is getting lost. And stupid commercials like this make us look no better than the Republicans.
First I'd heard of it.
And yet ...McCain can still eat with a fork and do alot of other things including use a phone.
He needs to get with Steven Hawkings to learn a thing or two about living in the tech age!
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But now I'm not an international virgin any more, and spent the month of July with my wife in South Africa.. Probably doing it again in January.
And this American can trace his lineage from Ireland and the Great Potato Famine to the Clary's of France, almost making me related to Napoleon by marrieag (see Desiree Clary). So I can't rag on the French too bad.
He can't send an email, use a computer, admits he knows nothing about economics, science, or technology. She had never been out of the United States in her life until last year, has no background in economics, international relations, or technology, and her major claim to qualification is she can see russia from her backyard.
They say they are more qualified to run the United States than a Columbia University & Harvard educated Senator who had been all around the planet before his first peach fuzz grew in.
We're not trying to suggest that McCain and Palin are stupid; We're simply asking you if you are, because they obviously think so.
Perhaps not those exact words, but something along those lines. Finally, at the end, a screen title:
What're you, Stoopid?
"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. "
Apparently the Obama campaign needs to brush up on their opposition research...
You 'approve' this message.
Listen closely to the way they say that phrase.
Is the message 'approved' by you?
OK. you 'approve' messages. Did you approve this one?
I can't figure out what they really mean when they say that at the end of their commercials. ;-)
On the contrary, Dave, we know Americans. And it doesn't matter whether 12 or 100 percent of you travel abaroad. We know you. We know you because you are us. Ninety-nine percent of the people who've populated the US over the past 20 generations have come there from south of the Rio Grande and the other four continents. All the peoples of the world are in America. And that is why the great Herman Melville could declare in his novel, Redburn, "You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world...."
See my guest column here (www.brooklynron.com/2008/08/musings-on-melv.html) for the full quote.
Melville lets us understand why the majority of the world's people love America and pray that you elect a wise, honest and just president.
Regards
Milverton
http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/hosts/index....
Sorry.
Maybe, but you won't hear that anymore if McCain beats Obama. You won't hear that if the Silent Majority rears its ugly head again and loudly proclaims itself The Stupid Majority. I don't know about you, but I prefer quaffing a beer with someone who can challenge me intellectually, rather than someone who is excited about his new Ford F150.
Unfortunately, however, this election will be decided by dunderheads. And so far, McCain has that vote hat in hand.
http://tinyurl.com/6dmxh7
Assuredly McCain isn't comfortable talking about this -- and the McCain campaign discouraged me from writing about this -- but the reason the aged Arizonan doesn't use a computer or send email is because of his war wounds.
I realize some of the nastier liberals in the blogosphere will see this as McCain once again "playing the POW card," but it's simply a fact: typing on a regular keyboard for any sustained period of time bothers McCain physically.
He can type, he occasionally does type, but in general the injuries he sustained as a POW -- ones that make it impossible for him to raise his arms high enough to comb his hair -- mean that small tasks make his shoulders ache, so he tries to avoid any repetitive exercise.
Again, it's not that he can't type, he just by habit avoids when he can repetitive exercise involving his arms. He does if he has to, as with handshaking or autographs.