Clueless Obama Campaign Attacks McCain for Not Using Email; McCain Has Difficulty Using Keyboard Due to Torture Injuries

Clueless Obama Campaign Attacks McCain for Not Using Email; McCain Has Difficulty Using Keyboard Due to Torture Injuries


The Barack Obama Campaign decided to get "tough" today. Trying to quell an outcry form his party as a result of falling poll numbers, the Obama Campaign today released an ad attacking John McCain for not knowing how to send an email. It turns out, if they had just done some checking, they would know why - McCain has difficulty using a keyboard as a result of the injuries he received from torture and captivity as a POW:

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.

After Vietnam, McCain had Ann Lawrence, a physical therapist, help him regain flexibility in his leg, which had been frozen in an extended position by a shattered knee. It was the only way he could hope to resume his career as a Navy flier, but Lawrence said the treatment, taken twice a week for six months, was excruciatingly painful.

”He endured it, he wouldn’t settle for less,” said Lawrence, who rejoiced with McCain when he passed the Navy physical. ”I have never seen such toughness and resolve.”

But McCain is not unacquainted with the internet, and he does utilize email. Cindy helps him to check and send email according to an article in Forbes Magazine in 2000:

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.



I wonder how long it will take for the Obama Campaign to apologize for this?