[AP] McCain helped create the Blackberry

leroy · Sep 16, 2008

Adviser says McCain helped create the BlackBerry

MIAMI - Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.

At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain's work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."

McCain has acknowledged that he doesn't know how to use a computer and can't send e-mail, one of the BlackBerry's prime functions.

Holtz-Eakin's argument is similar to one advanced by Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000. Gore once boasted about "taking the initiative to create the Internet" through technological and educational policies. He later was mocked for claiming to have invented the Internet, although he never made such a claim.

Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, said McCain's service on and leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee put him at the intersection of a number of economic interests, including the telecommunications industry.

The Arizona senator's handling of regulation and deregulation of that industry in particular left him with the skills to help revive the economy amid a mortgage crisis, an energy crisis and a Wall Street meltdown, the adviser said.

"He can and has the judgment to put people in place with technical expertise, with the history of experience in the areas necessary, that we're going to get reforms," Holtz-Eakin said.
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That's right boys and girls. John McCain, the man running for president who can't send an email, helped to create the BlackBerry.

Yes. I understand he co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in (anyone know where that came from?). Still seems like kind of a stupid thing for an adviser to say...much like Gore's gaffe.

thelasik · Sep 16, 2008

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leroy · Sep 16, 2008

thelasik said:

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DAMN IT. Got a phone call before I hit submit.

Oh well.

Lock/merge, I dont' care...

Lil Pun · Sep 16, 2008

LOL!

cson · Sep 16, 2008

leroy, Roxfan. Roxfan, leroy.

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Roxfan73 · Sep 16, 2008

I am going to reach across the aisle and suggest a merge.

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