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They just ran a piece on Joe Biden and his "gaffes", are they "hurting the Obama campaign". At least the man has a brain and is allowed to speak, unlike Palin, miss scripted. (BTW did you see her smiling like a ding bat while talking to KARZAI, what an idiot).
Among the gaffes cited:
The comment about the Obama ad on McCain's use of technology. Okay, this is a gaffe, in the sense that he should probably have kept this to himself, but give the Obama campaign manager hell in private. However, this was one older candidate suggesting we shouldn't be making attack ads against another candidate based on his computing skills. Really, this ad bothered me as well. I have two elderly parents, one is on email and the internet(s) all the time, computers don't intimidate her (although I'm constantly fixing her computer, she knows just enough to be dangerous). I have another parent that would just as soon use a computer as a door stop. It does not make one less intelligent than the other.
I thought the ad was rude and I'm sure Joe did too. There is plenty of stuff to attack McCain about, his lack of use of a personal computer is not one of them (he has staff for that). I know plenty of professionals that don't use the computer, they let their personal assistant handle all that stuff. Attack Palin for using email un-ethically, that is fair, but not someone of a certain generation who did not get comfortable using a computer. Trust me, I know many, not just of a certain generation either, as I've been a system administrator, now a developer for 18 years, that don't have a clue when it comes to a computer, internet or email. In fact, I would argue that the MAJORITY of the population isn't all the comfortable using a computer, email or the internet. The ad was stupid, and didn't serve any purpose other than to piss off anyone who isn't comfortable with computer use.
Joe shouldn't have said what he did, but he was right (as usual). IT was a bad ad, and made the Obama camp look like a bunch of snot-nosed kids laughing at older folks. I'll bet Joe isn't a computer wiz, does that make him not fit to be VP or P? Palin can sure use a computer, selling a plane on ebay, forwarding all her state emails to her yahoo account, does that make her smart? But the fucking media will just take it out of context, not talk about the stupidity of the ad (which is now pulled). No, they will just say Biden made another gaffe. That is the thing, Biden has integrity, if he thinks something is wrong, he'll say it, not because McCain is his friend, but because he knows it was an insult to all who don't use a computer comfortably (or at all). I mean really, OMG, he criticized his side, stop the presses, HE MUST be in lock step with Obama all the time. I'm so sick of shit like this!
:rant:
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