I am sure by now that most have seen the ad where Republican candidate McCain is mocked for non-use of a computer, and the inability to send an email.
Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer explains the ad this way :
“Our economy wouldn’t survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats,” Pfeiffer said. “It’s extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t know how to send an e-mail.”
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In all the discussion over this, one critical point has been overlooked. This argument is essentially the same as, but subordinate to, the argument that the Commander In Chief of the U.S. military should have prior military experience.
In these troubled times, do we need a president that has a gmail account, or do we need a president that has military experience ?
To paraphrase the Pfeiffer comment above :
“Our way of life wouldn’t survive without the military, and international security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats,” Pfeiffer said. “It’s extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t have military experience.”
I am very sure that all rational Americans understand that for the job of Commander In Chief, hundreds of hours with Outlook Express pales in comparison to the experience of hundreds of hours at the stick of a carrier based fighter jet.
Have to correct you here…although we agree on the substance. John McCain flew an A-4. It’s a bomber.
Yes, you are right monk. The A4 Skyhawk was an attack plane, i.e. a bomber.
It was an attempt to soften a minor correction, before some other dumbarse jumps on it for inaccuracy (given the current temperment of the leftists’ meltdown–one needs to dot the “i”s and cross ALL “t”s.) I agree 100% with the rest of the content of the post.
McCain does not use the internet for the same reason he can’t do jumping jacks. Injuries received while being shot down and tortured for 5 years keeps him from doing a a lot of things the rest of us take for granted.
He can’t lift his arms above his shoulders and he can’t type. The joints from his shoulders to his fingers are so damaged he is lucky he can shake hands let alone type.
Mocking Sen McCain over this is shameful.