Obama ad: McCain's out of touch

[Zarlok2]

Awesome job, Odumba, make fun of disabled people and war veterans.

You are such an empty suited pathologically lieing fraud.

[Michthemitch]

OBAMA '08 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[agustgus11]

from the Boston Globe:

Earlier, in a March 2006 interview with Fortune magazine, McCain said his work style didn't require computer usage. But he did not cite his injuries.

"I'm a Neanderthal - I don't even type. I do have rudimentary capabilities to call up some websites, like the New York Times online, that sort of stuff. No laptop. No PalmPilot. I prefer my schedule on notecards, which I keep in my jacket pocket."

[Cattttt]

Senator McCain's 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. So go ahead and make fun of how it's hard, because of his POW injuries, for McCain to do this himself.

[desertguy3]

Catttt, I have seen disabled people who paint by holding a brush with their teeth. People with no arms that write with their feet.

If McCain cannot use a computer, it is by choice not disability. Don't insult the real disabled people who do remarkable things everyday and contribute to our society. Please.

[agustgus11]

If your point with that quote was that his war injuries render him incapable of knowing how to use a computer or send e-mail, it doesn't hold water. Lots of injured and disabled people use computer via adaptive devices. He's just old and behind the fucking times, as this hilarious ad points out. Way to go Obama!

[daddyspike]

Boston Globe profile on McCain by Mary Leonard. 3 4, 2000.

"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."

[desertguy3]

American needs a President, not a sports fan.

[Rioga4x4]

Yeah right, like Mccain is a saint...yet he approved a MISLEADING ad saying that obama supported sex ed for kinder gardens and that he was disrespectful of Palin. I just don´t get why republicans are so great attacking and such a whiners when attacked.

[eyedd]

That's the way they roll. They throw a rock, and when someone throws back, they yell, "MOM, HE'S THROWING ROCKS AT ME!". The thrust of this message is that we're living in a very different world, that requires innovative thinking and an ability to respond in new ways than what the repubs have been doing over the last 7 years. We have a world that's being polluted at an alarming rate, and the repubs are yelling, "Drill, drill, drill!"

How's that change?

[dmxd06]

you people are stupid to talk negative about Obama. Name some of the great accomplishments John has made in his last 26 years being in Washington???????? nothing and his is talking about changing Washington.. please John who are you trying to fool.. Enough is enough stop using your P.o.w excuses to gain to voters. I know some p.o.w personally and i dont hear them whine like you do..

[agustgus11]

The ad is real TomMinderson, and damn awesome if I say so. All you guys giving bullshit excuses about McCain's POW injuries, this is 2008 and there are all kinds of adaptive devices that allow the physically disabled to use computers. Hell, I bet even Palin's DS kid could use one.... Go Barack!!

[TomMinderson]

Is this ad phony?

[ScrogginHausen]

McCain can't use a keyboard because of what he Vietnamese did to him. He can't type, comb his hair, or raise is arms above his head.

Obama's an asshat. This is his "stand up Joe" moment.

[bulletproofsmurf16]

Agreed.

[bulletproofsmurf16]

True. Obama makes me sick.

[ScrogginHausen]

Quote, "But how stupid is it for the Obama campaign to claim that McCain is unqualified to be president because he can't grasp cyber-security issues based on the fact he has never sent an email when the McCain campaign can just as easily say Obama can't understand first order national security issues because he's never fired a rife, flown a plane, commanded men in battle, or faced an enemy? I mean which prepares someone to be commander in chief better, hitting "send" on AOL or fighting a war?"

[JohannaPalacio001]

Are you kidding me? No wonder McCain's Ads are more effective.

[voxsingularis]

this ad makes me nostalgic for the Reagan years, and the days before we all became 24/7 slaves to cell phones and computers

come to think of it maybe its better if a Pres can still function if the power goes out

I gotta say that McCain looks a LOT better now

[cris2rey]

Is this the man who is supposed to bring change to Washington? Using negative ad, even this most stupid attack on McCain not knowing how to use a computer just to get elected. FYI, a lot of baby boomer does not know how to use a computer and it doesn't make them "out of touch". Enough of OBAMA

[roskopfj]

Most of McCains tax cuts are going to folks with yearly incomes over $600,000. If you make less than 600k your taxes will get cut 7/10 of a percent, and if you make more than 600k you're taxes are getting cut 5-7%

[kanawa]

Gonna give Obambi the benefit of the doubt for now on this one and blame it on poor research. Now that the truth is out and on Drudge, we'll see if Obambi mans up and pulls the ad.

[kffytube]

-Doesn't know how to use a computer?

-Can't send an email?

Mr. Obama might want to employ some better researchers. McCain quite literally can't send an email, or type on any keyboard, due to his injuries as a POW. Not a great reason to become a computer geek, either.

Not particularly good form picking on a guy for injuries suffered in service to his nation. Who's out of touch?

[kffytube]

Maybe this video and the TV ad gets pulled once they figure this out...

[IndyGnusP]

are u fucking kidding me... he keeps raising his arm with a pen in hand saying he's going to veto shit all over the place. how do u suggest that he's going to do that if his arms are so damaged.

[zzzkoszzz]

Dumb Ad.

[jimbob615]

Obama is a socialist? Yeah, good one, you fucking dumb ass fucking pieces of shit. You people don't even deserve to exist, your father should have withdrawn and you should have been a stain on your bed sheet.

[jimbob615]

God... anyone that supports McCain... I want to slay you right now. Shut the fuck up! You fucking dickheads.

[mlm1231]

Bring it on jimbob, me and my bible and my 9mil will meet you at the door.

[callmeshowtime]

McCain is out of touch and if he didnt have a wife worth over 300 million a year, he wouldnt even be running for president. His campain is running on Palin power and its running on E right now after her interview and "McCains fact of life" on the view.

[osiris33]

This is an excellent ad. When you think about it... McCain does not equal change. He's the past.

[kanawa]

When you think some more, you see that Obambi is pushing the same old big government nanny state policies that have failed everywhere they have been tried. Obambi is just another in a long line of corrupt thuggish Chicago politicians with a dash of Saul Alinsky thrown in.

[osiris33]

2 words... Bill Clinton

[sara5893]

What Obama did McCain take a football? Fuckin grow up. This ad sounds like the smart mouth kid on the play ground getting his ass kicked after spewing dumb comment.

[ckoeber]

Uhhh, trying to say something here?

[zekeaz]

Yeah, but he knows a nice pair of BOOBS when he sees them.

[8lifeisbeautiful8]

can he use a telephone or handphone???

[jimbob615]

Palin is inexperienced and wants to declare war on Russia... god help me if she gets elected. Someone shoot me if she does. Or hang me. Dismember me. Anything would be better then living in a McCain/Palin country.

[sara5893]

You obviously do not understand the UN.

[jimbob615]

You obviously are dumb. Palin stated that she supports Georgia joining NATO. And she stated that if Russia invaded Georgia again then she would declare war on Russia. Sweet, nuclear war sounds like FUN doesn't it. Fucking idiots.

[kanawa]

Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, she did not say she would declare war on Russia. You missed the word "perhaps". You're making things up and then getting your panties in a knot about it. Chill a little dude and pay attention to what is actually being said. Your blood pressure will thank you for it.

[sara5893]

I mean Nato, Listen to the ENTIRE clip about Russia then you may understand.

[MJRSylvester]

ummmmm...ok then. What is the purpose of NATO???? Please educate urself on the role of NATO before u open ur mouth.

[jimbob615]

eat it limeys!