Obama ad: McCain can't use computer.. .doesn't mention war injuries that makes that difficult...

This is a story that has my blood boiling... apparently, being injured serving your country is not a good excuse to not be as "techno-savy" as some in politics believe you should be. No matter what your politics, this should be something that upsets you as well.

Sen. Barack Obama has a new ad out, highlighting how "old" John McCain is...



http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/still_ad/

...while I suppose it is the Obama campaign's right to talk about McCain's age, the part that irritates me is the following...

"He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail."

That statement is FINE, unless you consider the facts...

FACT 1: McCain suffered injuries as a POW that make it difficult for him to type on a keyboard...
FACT 2: Unless FORBES was making the news up, as far back as 2000, it was reported that McCain, through the assistance of his wife, has been sending email..

"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." (http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/0529/053_print.html)

I sure hope nobody in the Obama campaign realized that McCain's war injuries make it difficult to use a computer the way you and I can on a regular basis. I also assume nobody in the campaign bothered to do 5-10 minutes of research on google prior to releasing the ad. However, that is a lot of assuming. We all know what assuming does.

I'd love to hear what you think on this... am I being oversensitive, or is this about as low as any campaign can go?


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TRUE face of feminists

I have to apologize for not updating the blog since Palin's speech last week.  To be honest, I think I was just stunned into not blogging.  As I watched the speech, I was thinking of several things... that I might be watching the US version of Margaret Thatcher... That I was looking at the modern Ronald Reagan... that she was a similar woman to my own mom... who raised us while still working and proving that women can do the same jobs men can do.  I've always thought of my mom as a feminist of the TRUE variety.  I've never bought into the lie that N.O.W. or people like Gloria Steinem or women like her are the true feminists.  I think that was a media creation.  I ran across this post from NPR... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94369835&ft=1&f=1102 that asks if Palin is the NEW face of feminists.  I agree, she is the face of feminists.  However, I am not sure this is NEW.  I believe women all across this country are just like Sarah Palin.  They want to do the same jobs as men, but at the same time, they don't want to pretend they are men.  A TRUELY strong woman doesn't need to look/dress in a masculine way in order to be a true feminist.  Sarah Palin is the embodyment of this point.  She is making the tough decisions, she is a leader, she is a mother, she is a friend, she is a real woman.  The incredible reaction we are seeing to her, from the 37 million people who watched her speech, to the crowds showing up to see her on the campaign trail, to the brand new polls out showing a BIG jump (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html) all prove this.  Women (and men for that matter) across this country have been waiting for a REAL, TRUE feminist to show up on the scene.  Nothing in the definition of a feminist (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feminist) suggests that women have to act like men or dress like men to be a feminist.  Quite the opposite.  I believe a true feminist can be who she is.  She doesn't need to act like a man to be a woman.  That is what I've seen so far from Sarah Palin.  She is who we see on TV.  Her friends say this, people from Alaska say this.  It is refreshing to hear from a politician who knows who she is, and isn't afraid to be that in public. 

 

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