Maybe you saw this new Barack Obama advertisement wherein Sen. John McCain is considered out of touch because he does not know how to use a computer or send email.
Apparently, nearly all of this is just plain false -- and incredibly stupid! Did you hear? Well, you can read this if you'd like, or this.
Of course, in the magic age of YouTube, you get this quick retort:
Whoever is running Barack Obama's campaign should be fired. Wait. Barack Obama IS running his campaign: He "approves this message." How wonderfully ironic, especially since he compared his executive experience -- he has executed a campaign -- to Governor Sarah Palin's experience -- as a mayor! Hear Barack Obama speak to Anderson Cooper:
The laughs will not stop! Barack Obama may very well be executing his campaign -- right before our eyes.
“My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla [sic], has I think 50 employees. We've got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month.”
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Here's quite the quote from a 2000 Forbes magazine article about that year's political campaigns:
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.©2008. All rights reserved.
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