There's little more to talk about Palin's email issue: she probably didn't say anything totally incriminating on her Yahoo account, as the ultra-liberals were no doubt hoping to find. Nevertheless, it is still naïve as hell to let even a shred of government business–related communication slip
into a freaking Yahoo account, (a) because it puts sensitive information or a trail leading to it on some uncontrollable Yahoo server somewhere in California, and (b) because it furthers the perception of secrecy, cronyism, and anti-transparency that's already dogging her.
The... War Hero card? What are the "issues du jour: is he claiming to be above? I say imagined because he already said he was learning, making the implication that he "doesn't have to learn" impossible.
Look, I don't want to see someone crying out "poor me" whenever he or she is in a jam, but why is it an implausibility that injuries are a deterrent from using a machine? Clearly he is generally aware of the capabilities and use of a PC. He never said that he hadn't ever used one.
Well, again, that's just not enough.
And I've already given an example of what I wish his campaign would have said in response to this particular "issue du jour".
Again, lots of assumptions here. Now, it's certainly within your rights to say to a candidate "this is important to me and I am not convinced it is important to you". All of this from his comment that he was "computer illiterate". I've also heard he doesn't personally attend to his email. But again, we're looking at the non-usage of a machine and assuming that he does not understand the significance of technology.
"he does not understand the significance of technology" ...
as well as someone who does use the stuff regularly. Yes sir, that is correct.
You're right, you didn't asset it, you suggested it, and the suggestion was that he dumped her because she was crippled. There's a fundamental difference in what you said then and what you just said.
Her own words, fwiw ... spin it however you will:
The breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident or Vietnam or any of those things. I don't know that it might not have happened if John had never been gone. I attribute it more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again than I do to anything else.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter5.html
I can't read the entire thread yet so I apologize if this has already been mentioned. Your assumption simply isn't true. The McCain campaign never brought it up. This information was published over a year ago by numerous news agencies. It wasn't until after internet bloggers, and news outlets started to point it out, that the McCain campaign started to use it as well. Nobody ever went into the details because it was already well known that he endured physical injury during his captivity, and at the time of these reports the specifics weren't really relevant.
Huh? Look, brief history: awhile ago some reporter asks McCain something offhanded about computers, McCain says he knows nothing and doesn't use them, attention is called to those comments by major news outlets (and a mass of liberal bloggers, I would imagine), they're repeated in an Obama ad, McCain surrogates/operatives respond to the ad—not by extolling any of his tech policies and comparing them with Obama's, but by playing the War Hero card.
That's not assumption, that's what happened.
