Way to go McQuackberry

[Perky]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 16, 2008
Filed at 10:38 a.m. ET

MIAMI (AP) -- Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.

At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain's work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, ''You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.''

McCain has acknowledged that he doesn't know how to use a computer and can't send e-mail, one of the BlackBerry's prime functions.

Holtz-Eakin's argument is similar to one advanced by Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000. Gore once boasted about ''taking the initiative to create the Internet'' through technological and educational policies. He later was mocked for claiming to have invented the Internet, although he never made such a claim.

Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, said McCain's service on and leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee put him at the intersection of a number of economic interests, including the telecommunications industry.

The Arizona senator's handling of regulation and deregulation of that industry in particular left him with the skills to help revive the economy amid a mortgage crisis, an energy crisis and a Wall Street meltdown, the adviser said.

''He can and has the judgment to put people in place with technical expertise, with the history of experience in the areas necessary, that we're going to get reforms,'' Holtz-Eakin said.


So....McCain is thus resposnible for crackberry addictions and 1,000s of fender benders? Way to go McQuackberry!!!

[AllieB]

1. As I said on another thread, RIM (Research in Motion) is a Canadian company.

Was Gramps moonlighting in the Canadian parliament? What an idiot.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Thing is, this is a huge gaffe that will hopefully wake people up

regarding how far the mighty have fallen. Now that it is on AP, it'll go to every media outlet.

[Bassic]

3. RIM is a Canadian company,

way to go gramps.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Please, please let the press run with this story and ridicule McBlackberry the way

they ridiculed Gore incessantly. Oh fuck, who am I kidding, it'll be buried by tomorrow.