The Obama campaign still actually thinks the McCain-can’t-email ad is a good idea (Weekly Standard Blog, emphasis added):
On Saturday, ABC’s Jake Tapper looked into reports that the reason John McCain can’t email–a matter mocked in a recent Obama ad–is because of McCain’s war injuries.
Tapper reported that in fact McCain “can type, he occasionally does type, but in general the injuries he sustained as a POW — ones that make it impossible for him to raise his arms high enough to comb his hair — mean that small tasks make his shoulders ache, so he tries to avoid any repetitive exercise.”
You’d think the Obama campaign would promptly pull the ad and issue an apology. But the ad is still featured on Obama’s website, and his spokesman actually had the audacity to say on FOX News this morning that McCain ought to learn how to email . . .
Seriously, guys, you’re making this way too easy. It’s not like McCain doesn’t know what email is, he’d just rather have other people type the keys to avoid the pain from his war injuries.
I know Obama talked about “taking the gloves off.” I didn’t realize he was planning on hitting himself.
UPDATE: Jim Geraghty also weighs in.
