He has typed several (unpublished) novels on a typewriter, and has since transistioned to a computer. He uses the computer unaided and without any “handicap devices.” He checks his own email. He reads blogs online. He even blogs himself!

And he’s eight years older than McCain to boot–AND a veteran.

So while I refind the links I used in my mysteriously vanished rebuttal, chew on that for a bit.

1. No one tried to shout down John Kerry’s speech when I was there. There were people outside his speech disagreeing with his rhetoric, even showing it by wearing flip flops but, no one entered and tried to shout down his speech like the Code Pinkos who are closer to your ideology. There is nothing disrespectful about that.

2. I respect every veteran, I can still disagree with them. I never wore the band-aids that you mentioned nor have I even heard of them, was that something you picked up on some far left blog?

3. I have said it many times in these comments and your angry responses have not countered it one bit, McCain may be able to struggle through computer use with his injuries but, it is not efficient for him to do so.

I would prefer my future president operate in the most efficient manner possible and if that means letting someone else read his email I fully respect that.

Brandon:

McCain calls himself “computer illiterate”– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rpamTKMlKw

McCain commenting “I am learning to get online myself”– http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07.....0V8N+NofGQ

It’s that second link that demolishes your argument. McCain admits that he is now learning HOW to use computers/Internet by himself, which is a flat-out concession that he (a) can use a computer and type for himself if he cares to, so the injuries issue is a nonstarter, and (b) didn’t know HOW to use a computer before, hence his comments that he is now learning.

Ergo, it is clear that McCain was indeed computer illiterate (lacking in know-how, not physical abilities) until it became an embarrassment for his campaign…whereupon he started getting tutored. (And the fact that McCain and his campaign haven’t been using the “I’m injured” excuse is telling–given that they have never hesitated to use the POW get-out-of-gaffe-free card before, no matter how irrelevant to the gaffe at hand, and given that McCain is a smart enough politician to know that such a line of argument would have killed the whole embarrassing story in an instant, one has to conclude that the campaign would have used that defense if it had even the slightest bit of relevance to it.)

Finally, I’m frankly surprised to see you, Brandon, suddenly caring so deeply about outrages to veterans. Where were you when your buddies were slandering John Kerry’s service in 2004? Where were you when your party was walking around with purple heart bandaids? And where were you when a bunch of Milwaukee area Republicans waved flip-flops and tried to shout down Kerry’s speech in Milwaukee?

Oh, that’s right. You were one of the ones waving flip-flops and shouting. With a bullhorn, as I recall. Where was your immense respect for veterans and their service then, exactly?

You are a hypocrite, and your outrage is completely phony. But belated, overwrought deference is better than none, I suppose.

It’s pretty simple really. Sen.Obama (or his staff) didn’t do their research and attacked a POW for not wasting an undue amount of time computing when it’s not efficient for him.

I apologize if the spam filter or something else caught your post, I have not deleted it. Please feel free to post it again. I am always open to discussion and debate.

As for all the comments about adaptations for McCain to use a computer, they all take lots of TIME to use. McCain’s time is extremely limited, it’s just not efficient for him to spend time using a bunch of special tools to check his email when he has perfectly able staffers to go through and filter it fully for him (just like fortune 500 CEOs do).