Obama Snarkmouth can’t answer the darn question.
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Obama spokesperson Bill Burton, interviewed by Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer, was asked about John McCain’s war injuries limiting his use of a computer stumbled in his explanation. BIll Burton’s defense of the computer ad was at best convoluted
http://stuckon-stupid.com/2008/09/15/obama-spokesman-bill-burtons-blasphemous-blathering/
September 16, 2008 at 1:39 AM
I have to disagree again, on the familiar grounds of perception. =)
McCain’s war wounds are a *very* recent excuse for his not knowing how to use computers. This first broke in June. Try watching the clip from the perspective that the spokesperson actually is trying to answer the question, by posing another question. To paraphrase: “how is that, if his war wounds are the reason he can’t use a computer, he is now ‘learning to use’ a computer?”
He manages to hold his hands in front of him all day to make gestures, to hit podiums and point at us. McCain’s people claim that he’s perfectly healthy, yet today I saw someone accuse the Obama campaign of “picking on the elderly and disabled.” How can people who say stuff like that not hold up the mirror to themselves, to see that they’re crying foul for this “elderly and disabled” man to become our President, while also saying that his having had multiple bouts with cancer is a-ok because he’s a bulldog?
Please check out this clip that was posted on youtube (among other places) on June 13, well before this interview, and before a “you’re picking on us” rebuttal could be concocted. In the clip, McCain answers that he doesn’t use either a Mac or a PC, that he is “illiterate” and relies on his wife. He did not say that his war wounds disallowed him from using a keyboard; he was trying to be jovial by playing up his disinterest in the technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzi9cXgmhyc&feature=related
Also, in this video we see him rocking around on both of his supposedly disabled arms on a chair in front of him, for about 4 minutes straight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mibJbCX9HNE
Also, here he is with his arms completely crossed for minutes at a time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CazKanlYDg&NR=1
To me, the interviewer in the original clip cut off the answer to his first question by sucker-punching the person trying to answer the question. He then rode the shockwave until it appeared that the question was being dodged.
September 16, 2008 at 3:46 PM
The cancer is a skin cancer…unless you let it go unchecked, you will live a long life.