…..and Just when you think you’ve heard it all, in this race…. There’s this!
This Via Politico.com
Asked what work John McCain did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate’s top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.
“He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry. “Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that’s what he did.”
Which got promptly BLASTED to hell and back by a former FCC chairman!
John McCain is so out of touch with America his economics adviser says he deserves credit for creating the Canadian company that invented the Blackberry. Message to Republicans: it’s American entrepreneurship our President is supposed to encourage.
The blackberry, is made in Canada.
In fact, Think Progress reports the following:
This is not the first time that McCain has tried to take credit for a technological innovation he actively opposed. In a 2000 GOP presidential debate, he took credit for E-Rate, a program designed to wire schools:
We took a major step forward when we decided to wire every school and library in America to the Internet. That’s a good program.
McCain, however, opposed E-Rate in the late ’90s, concerned about the impact it might have on the telecom industry. Groups such as the American Library Association were so outraged that they encouraged their members to contact obstinate senators, including McCain. More here on McCain’s paltry record as Senate Commerce Committee chairman.
I mean, I know think progress is a liberal joint and all. But, you cannot white wash history, at all. It seems McCain is trying to do just that. His staff is pulling lies out of their collective asses to try and make John McCain, errr…ummm, I mean, Juan McSame, look good and it is instead making him look like a total buffoon.
Seriously folks, this is turning John McCain’s campaign into a huge joke.
Then, there’s this. One of McCain’s own surrogates made this rather startling remark today:
Video: (via HuffPo)
She tried to defend her remarks over on MSNBC. But you know the damage is done there man… Ouch!
I give her 24 to 48 hours and her butt will be under the bus and out of the McCain campaign.
Because you just have to know that Juan McSame is sitting there thinking, “Gee, Thanks a bunch Bitch, I give you a Job in my campaign and you cannot even defend me properly. Oy!”
Between this and the continued slamming by the Wall Street Journal, I predict a huge drop in the polls this week.
The Opinions in the Blogging World are flying about this one. Check it out over at Memeorandum!
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