Beltway Snark

Check it out, it’s a mashup of the “McCain is old” meme and the the knock against him for the mortal sin of….not knowing how to use a computer or send email. Because that is the most important qualification one can have to be POTUS. And anyone who doesn’t know how to use a computer is a hopeless rube.

One of Malkin’s commentators brings up a point I never though of; McCain might be physically unable to use a keyboard due to his Vietnam injuries. I can certainly see how even if he had the manual dexterity to type it would be rather awkward for him to do so, seeing as one arm is markedly shorter than the other. Think about it, what position would he have to sit in to be able to use both hands to type? Eek. 

PS – Hey Obama, aren’t you the asshat who screwed up sending out a damn text message?

UPDATE – Well look at that. McCain isn’t physically able to use a computer, and that fact has been documented before. And in case you think McCain doesn’t know anything about the Internets, here’s a blurb from a 2000 Forbes article.

In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.

Way to go Team Obama.

UPDATE II – Here’s the YouTube video of the spot.