Freeper response to Obama computer ad

[nxylas]

No, I'm not going to link to it, but this is the post in full.

I have been thinking about Obama's new ad this morning; something totally dawned on me:

McCain can't use his arms effectively Obama!!!! He has war injuries you moron!!! Of course he can't sit in front of a computer and type.

Now that would be quite a rebuttal!

Personally, I don't think McCain would go for it. We all know how reluctant he is to use his POW injuries for political gain (:sarcasm:, in case I was too subtle for anyone here).

[AllentownJake]

1. Epic Fail

They design computers for people with injuries and McCain can afford one. If he can dial his cell phone he can type on a computer.

[nxylas]

8. Yep, if Stephen Hawking can use a computer...

Just saying.

[mamalone]

13. But do we know for sure that he *can* use a cell phone?

;)

[yardwork]

26. If McCain can raise his arm in that Hitler salute we saw at the convention, he can use a computer.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

36. I'm liking the computer thing more and more. It's sort of silly in a way,

but it's also very stealthy. It's hard to really counter seriously. Younger folks, I'd wager, are totally tuned into the message though. He's a walking, talking noob when it comes to anything relevant to them.

Series

[treestar]

37. Gotta laugh at the way Freepers think up something and think

it's brilliant, without thinking it through!

[bluestateguy]

2. And yet the founder of Free Republic is Jim Robinson, a paraplegic

nt

[ellacott]

19. That's the irony of ironies

[Cheap_Trick]

23. JR must be paralyzed from the waist up....

all the way to his tiny peabrain.

[samuraiguppy]

25. wow I had no idea

gives a different perspective. from now on when I am hating on him--now I will feel a little bad for him too

[nxylas]

31. I didn't know that either

All the more amazing, therefore, that he would become an apologist for fascism, an ideology that even in its less extreme forms (ie the ones that don't involve rounding up "untermenschen" and herding them into gas ovens), still revolves around the idea that compassion for the less fortunate in society is unmanly, and wants to replace democracy and the rule of law with a society in which the strongest take what they want and leave the rest with the scraps.

[mitchum]

39. He's not; Robinson is just scamming

[YOY]

3. Wow...

That's some serious goddamn reaching.

And it makes me want to do some serious goddamn retching.

[gateley]

4. I haven't seen the computer ad - is it an official Obama spot, or a 527? Thanks. nt

[Zuiderelle]

Official Obama spot.

"I am Barack Obama, and I approve this message"

[nxylas]

15. It's an official spot

The bit about McCain saying he can't use a computer is just something that is mentioned in passing, yet it's all anyone seems to talk about. The ad talks about how out of touch he is with the concerns of Middle America, and the computer comment is just used as an illustration of the whole "out of touch" theme.

[NYCGirl]

18. It's an Obama campaign ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2I0t_Twk0

And it's about a LOT more than using a computer.

[gateley]

22. Thanks -- I'll check it out.

Wish they would have left this reference out of it, if it's going to become a STORY and eat up more of the clock.

[tallahasseedem]

5. LOL!

Epic Fail indeed.

[Oceansaway]

6. Mclame can shake hands...i say bullshit....n/t

[flvegan]

7. There is no limit on the stupidity at that place.

[Hepburn]

9. What?

This asshole Freeper thinks that McCain is too fucking feeble to use a mouse...but he is strong enough to be POTUS???

LMBO....:rofl:

[Alter Ego]

10. Of all the reasons to object to that ad, this is the dumbest.

Hell, my father broke both his arms, still can't bend them past 45 degrees, and he uses a fucking computer just fine.

[Bobbie Jo]

11. God they're losing it.

Yeah...that's the ticket.

[LeftinOH]

12. Doesn't Stephen Hawking use computers *all the time* ?

But then, he is a genius.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Looks like the ad is having an effect.

;)

[codjh9]

16. That's not an 'effective response'. That's fucking bullshit. He just can't lift his hands

*above his head*.

[nxylas]

20. So how will he deal with the threat of ceiling cat?

If it ever decides to turn hostile?

[AlCzervik]

17. That's weak even for a freeper.

[1corona4u]

21. I don't know why people are focusing on just the computer part....

it says a lot more than that...

[zbdent]

24. comical ... especially when you have to consider that web sites are

able to be read by the blind ...

What ... McCain's computer is on a shelf above his shoulders? Get that man a ladder!

[DeadManInc]

27. They work fine to pull palins pants

down to kiss her ass.

[high density]

28. He fidgets with his wedding ring just fine when Palin is up there talking

Jeeze.

[BlueIdaho]

29. Robby the Robot arms... nt.

[Zenmaster]

30. Even if that were true...Should we elect a vegetable to be president, then?

First of all, McCain is capable of using a computer, physically. However, even if it were true that McCain CAN'T physically use a computer, its a shitty retort.

In today's day and age, computers are going to be a part of the process. He's going to have to use a computer, to some extent to do his job.

If we nominated a vegetable to be president, should his lack of cognitive skills be off limits for discussion, because he sufferred brain damage as a result of injury?

Should we hire quadrapalegics to be Navy Seals or firefighters?

The reason WHY he can't use a computer makes no difference to the fact that not being able to use one is a strike against his qualifications for the job.

[flamingdem]

32. McCain can't use his brain properly freeper

jjjjeez

[KingFlorez]

33. McCain never said that was the reason

He just said he didn't know how to use a computer, he never mentioned war injuries, so that arguments falls flat.

[WindRiverMan]

34. Steven Hawkings can use a computer

but McCain can't?



LOL, give me a break

[FrenchieCat]

35. He can't type? He can't move a mouse? He can't write?

Sounds like the POW excuse all over again.

[crazy_vanilla]

38. he doen't know HOW to use it, not physically incapable of using it

the man does not know HOW to use it, not that he is not physically capable of using it

then again, there is voice recognition software:eyes:

[mitchum]

40. Well, that sawed-off little son of a bitch needs to be using a child's computer desk

[mcctatas]

41. Wow, they are computer illiterate too?!

Plenty of adaptive devices that allow a person to utilize a computer without full mobility in their arms :rofl:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

42. The hardest part of using a computer is getting potato chips all over your underpants.

Could he master that?