Campaign Manager: McCain "Loves To Tool Around On The Internet"

This morning, Obama communications director Robert Gibbs took a shot at John McCain for not knowing what an "Internet" was or how to set up the tube in his own home or office, leaving it up to McCain campaign manager Rick Davis to defend the candidate's computer literacy.

Davis insisted that McCain is a big fan of "tooling around" on the web, and is well-known for grabbing the Blackberries of reporters so that he can watch all the pretty flashing lights. Why reporters willingly give up their Blackberries to McCain is a complete mystery, my guess it is a result of McCain "feigning an interest in their lives."

BRZEZINSKI: Does John McCain, does he use the internet? Does he use email?

GEIST: Come on.

BRZEZINSKI: I just want to know.

DAVIS: He actually is, he always is grabbing people's Blackberrys on the bus. In fact, no reporter's Blackberry is safe from his prying eyes. He loves to tool around on the internet, he especially loves the videos that get produced that usually poke fun at him. I think that's his most entertaining part of the internet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/30/campaign-manager-mccain-l_n_109954.html






"TOOLING AROUND THE INTERNET AND GRABBING BLACKBERRIES?" Can we get any hipper than that?

He watches my mouse move across the screen, follows the windows moving around, occasionally putting a paw on the trackpad or the keyboard, trying to figure out what the hell is going on. I'm sure if I had a blackberry, he'd grab it.

And just like John McCain, he loves YouTube videos; I'd guess he could watch clips of cats, foxes, dogs, and critters for hours. He recognizes YouTube's site layout, and when he sees it, he walks over and sticks his face right up against the screen, waiting for new and interesting clips. Hell, back when I played World of Warcraft, he even recognized the login screen as a sign of impending "things running around."

So, yeah. John McCain, when it comes to the internet, is on exactly the same level as my 10-year-old dog.

in the past few days and really spiced this place up - very very funny.

"A half-senile old man bewildered and intrigued by this ubiquitous and incomprehensible new world."

I'm betting it's The Magistrate! (just a little fun poking, with all due respect)

Uh oh. That can be misinterpreted.

:cry:

whenever * proves in public that he's an ignorant loser.

I've never heard them called that before, but he better never try to grab my blackberries!

if he loves it so much. too cheap?

for anything to do with computers and the web. Nice try by the McCain campaign to depict the out-of-touch old man as computer savvy.