McCain and the BlackBerry

This McCain / Palin campaign makes Bush and Cheney look honest. God save the Republic from this dishonest duo!

The only reason they had this guy out there today is to draw attention from “mr. deregulation” Phil Gramm
and now they have “dumb and slimier”
either they are dishonest…
or they try to be…
oh, dishonest.
ugh
throw the bums out!

Has McCain ever seen a Blackberry?

Mccain- the change candidate? Haha. Yes he had changed his position to most of the issues. Don’t trust him at all.
Palin a Wacko? That is a kind word. She keeps talking about Ebay and bridge to no where. She thinks people don’t know the real story. She has convinced her self with her own lies and can’t tell the difference now.

Mccain does not even know how to use computer, how the hell will he know how to use black berry.

The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device that was introduced in 1997 as a two-way pager. The more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services, was released in 2002. It is an example of a convergent device. Developed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM), it delivers information over the wireless data networks of mobile phone service companies.
ROFLMAO!

I am surprised they did not say it was amazing that he could since he camn’t seem physically to be able to use a computer…but he can invent a blackberry?
this campaign is a joke
same team same tactics
ugh

if this Palin claim of “bridge” can be classified as an untruth, Obama can be called a “liar” just as easily.
Take, if you will, the foundational assertion of Obama’s entire campaign: He is the candidate of post-partisan change. Obama, meanwhile, voted with fellow Democrats 96 percent of the time in Washington. And the bipartisan achievement he most often cites, an ethics reform bill, was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate.

spock nice spin…that’s like saying every member of congress who voted for technology on a committee invented google…ugh
You show there is no getting around
the same team
and
the same tactics
same results
how those results worked for ya for 8 years?
throw these bums out.

It could not possible be more clear what the McCain staffer was talking about. Anyone who would assume they were saying McCain invened the BlackBerry (Obama campaign and media shills) should have their heads examined…and be forced to relearn the English language.

Amy if Obama voted with the dems 96% of the time
that means that chances are 96% of the time he was voting against the policies that got us HERE.
If you don’t know those policies do yourself a favor and read McCain’s platform.
They’re all there.

Obama didn’t invent flip-flop but he certainly made it an art form! One can’t believe a single word the shallow one says!

Ryan C,
The game here is Whack-A-Mole which has a pathology all its own.
This is a pie fight so if you don’t enjoy it, find something more productive to do like registering voters.
Personally, I like pie.

If there is such a looming financial crisis in this country, how can so many people afford to donate money to Obama’s presidential campaign?
Anyone truly worried about the economy would be hanging on to their money.

Palin and McCain have become the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland. Each of them believe at least six impossible things before breakfast.

happy
that is like saying every member of congress was partly responsible for…
…everything.
how about the McCain campaign deal in facts.
I see they look at 2004…how we successfully got into a war…
how we successfully declared it a success months in
how we said Russert was to blame for revealing identitaies of CIA operatives
how we successfully hired lackeys to run FEMA
how successfully they appointed justices and ran the justice department…
it was easy…just avoid facts and truth.
anybody can run the government if you ignore how bad things are getting (as people are dying in stadiums or America’s biggest financial institutions are going belly up)
just ignore, lie, spin and call the press “elitist liberals”
and you too can run the United States federal Govenrnment
that should be the McCain campaign’s new slogan.
same team
same tactics
same results
9th year

“how can so many people afford to donate money to Obama’s presidential campaign”
I think people should be allowed to do with their money as they wish. Hundreds of thousands of people have sent in less than $200.
But since you bring up tough times and spending on campaigns,
Why should we the taxpayer pay for John McCain’s lies?

“A spokesman for McCain was pointing out that as chair of the committee in question, McCain was instrumental in enabling telecommunication innovations like the Blackberry.”
Except the Blackberry was developed by a Canadian company.
Down goes the right wing rationalization!

The fundamentals of our economy aren’t strong, yet the GDP grew 3.3% in the 2nd quarter? How does that work?
And as others have stated, how in the world has Obama managed to amass the largest war chest ever if we are in such a financial crisis?
Things aren’t “swell” but it’s not 1929, either. Someone explain to me why I should vote for a guy who talks down the economy to win votes.

Someone explain to me why I should vote for a guy who talks down the economy to win votes.
No George, I’m not going to.

I’d leave, if it weren’t for the engaging conversation.

“how can so many people afford to donate money to Obama’s presidential campaign”

John McCain and Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Honestly.

“God wants Change.”

John McCain said the fundamentals of the economy are strong because he does not want to cause a financial panic. He will not cause people to lose their jobs or life savings in order to score a cheap political point.
Barack Obama, on the other hand, has no problem tanking the economy in order to score cheap short-term political points.
And that is the difference between McCain and Obama.

Another lie, already? What’s he gonna take credit for next, The Internet, The wheel???
The economy is not strong. It’s not crumbled yet. It’s crumbling and John and “W” are responsible. Their stupid policies. The outsourcing , The stupid liars war, The rediculous tax cuts for the rich while beating up the middle class. It’s a joke and the Republicans don’t care. They vote to win. If America loses, aw, so what. If the country dries up and gets blown away, so what. As long as they don’t have to pay for it they’ll just laugh and keep putting on their lipstick.
Wrapped in the flag they drain the country dry. As LONG AS THEY DON’T HAVE TO PAY, THAT’S ALL THEY CARE ABOUT. they should look up the definition of patriotism. Big words they don’t understand like responsibility, love of their fellow man. (and I don’t mean like your senator in the bathroom) Care of the land you live in, for your children. I’m wasting my breathe. They just don’t get it!

This whole controversy is RIDICULOUS. our economy is fundamentally strong. 3.3% growth last quarter. Financial market is undergoing a natural correction. My small business is doing fantastically well. so the Dow dropped ~5%. It dropped 25% in the 80′s in one day! Obviously, it’s in Obama’s best interest for the economy to tank – it improves his chances. I never thought I’d see a more cynical presidential nominee than bill clinton, but obama runs rings around him. You want to see wholesale destruction of the economy? Put Democrats in congress and the white house. We’ve all seen what they’ve done to Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, LA, DC, and on and on.

LOL!
An American politician can do anything they want on a Senate committee — it still wouldn’t affect the BlackBerry which is created and owned by a CANADIAN company (Research In Motion based in Waterloo, Ontario). Ha ha…Americans are so stupid sometimes!!

McCain didn’t say he invented the BBery.
BUT, Al Gore *never* claimed to have invented the internet. That was a Rove stoked urban rumor.
The difference between Gore and McCain however is that Gore is very tech savvy, is on Google and Apple’s board because of it, founded a pretty cool cable company AND was one of the instrumental people on the government side pushing to form the internet.
From Wikipedia:
Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore’s initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet.”[94][92] Cerf would also later state: “Al Gore had seen what happened with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, which his father introduced as a military bill. It was very powerful. Housing went up, suburban boom happened, everybody became mobile. Al was attuned to the power of networking much more than any of his elective colleagues. His initiatives led directly to the commercialization of the Internet. So he really does deserve credit.”[95] Former Republican Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich also stated: “In all fairness, it’s something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is — and I worked with him starting in 1978 when I got [to Congress], we were both part of a “futures group” — the fact is, in the Clinton administration, the world we had talked about in the ’80s began to actually happen.”[

Since Blackberry is a Canandian based invention, does this qualify as foreign policy experience?

I just read where the king of stutter is now taking his teleprompter with him on his campaign. It’s no doubt programed with the words of others because the shallow one doesn’t have enough gray matter to speak intelligently on any subject.
Obama – hot air and BS!

Jenn – Not all Americans are stupid, most understand context.
Blackberry may have been created by a Canadian company, but its US wireless infrastructure that supports BB users here. It’s US consumer privacy rules that apply to who can use numbers and how. It’s US funds that help support R&D on interoperable systems to look to 2nd gen innovation. All of those run through Congress/Commerce Committee. Just as any telecommunications, telephony, Internet, wireless concerns do, for either business or consumers.
Any legislation that impacts delivery, distribution, use and misuse of abovementioned comes through Congress/Commerce Committee. Think McCain might have picked up some experience with technology issues? – I do.

Our economy is fundamentally strong? I can’t believe there are people out there pushing this fallacy. Let’s throw out some facts here:
The government had to bail out/take over Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae because of the housing crisis.
The U.S. is experiencing a housing crisis of epic proportions. There are more people who have either already foreclosed or are in danger of being foreclosed on their home mortgages than any time in U.S. history.
The “earnings gap” between corporate executives and the average earner has ballooned to where now the execs earn 400 times the average worker.
Inflation is slowly rising, in part due to high energy prices.
Oil and gas prices have reached historic highs, even when accounting for inflation.
AIG, and Merrill Lynch are in the throes of bankruptcy.
The average family requires TWO incomes just to get by.
An untold number of high paying jobs have left the country never to return. Not just blue collar factory jobs, but now even high paying technical jobs as well.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. On a more personal note, as an engineer at a high tech firm, I have noticed that my salary increases have been lagging the inflation index for the past 4 years, even as my company has been laying off many good paying high tech jobs because it is moving them overseas. They have also been whittling away at my benefits. All this despite the fact that the company has been making record profits.
So, stop pushing this “fundamentally sound” economy stuff. It’s a load, and those of us who are out here living it know it!

“Not all Americans are stupid, most understand context.”
The McCain campaign disagrees with based on the accuracy of their campaign ads and statements.

Weird how no one asks Barack Obama what he did as a member of the Senate Committee.

Oh, but BO is INCENSED at McCain’s recent bit of “lying?” Physician heal thyself.
In other news, Obamassiah tried to slow down talks to withdrawal U.S. troops from Iraq, no doubt to benefit his own campaign. To this scum-sucking leftist, American troops are merely pawns to be manipulated in his personal narrative.

McCain supported The Reform Institute, a Virginia based think tank that, as The Chicago Tribune noted, is a sham used to collect contributions from those its reports and Congressional testimony favor. McCain campaign operative Rick Davis is prominent in the Institute’s collection efforts.
“In 2003 and 2004, a telecommunications company with business before the McCain-led Senate Commerce Committee contributed a total of $200,000 to the institute. The contributions were solicited by Rick Davis, a veteran Washington lobbyist who was president of the institute from 2003 through 2005 and who is now McCain’s campaign manager.”

To this scum-sucking leftist, American troops are merely pawns to be manipulated in his personal narrative.
Posted by: ggg
Are you for real? Do you not see the irony in your statement based on the fact that the current “rightist” administration has been using our troops as pawns for the past 6 years in Iraq? Then McCain votes against the GI bill. So that would make you a idiot hypocrite wouldn’t it? With Americans like these, who needs enemies?

Since the Blackberry is Canadian in vintage, I guess H-E meant McCain also outsources American jobs.

I think McCain, lacking hearing again, and his campaign, misunderstood the question when someone asked about his blackberry tree in his back yard.

… wait until he finds out that all those taxes went to pay for hand outs (read votes for democrats) to his friends that didn’t work and spent the weekend at the river !!!
Conservatives believe you can make it with hard work and the American system.
“Progressives” believe you can make it by organizing, voting like your told, and taxing those that work hard and follow the American system…

“My friend’s kid just learned the hard way. Last month he worked two 70 hour weeks – he was understandably proud of his effort and responsibility having missed a weekend trip to the river with his friends. He got his paycheck and was stunned to find out over half of his expected wind fall was taken in taxes.
Welcome to Obamanomics – - -”
RSW, you do realize that your friend’s kid was taxed under the Bush administration’s tax policies don’t you?

Oh, bullroar! These people are pushing the outer limits of ridiculous, and the results are telling. The pendulum has swung back towards Obama in all the national polls – as soon as the real issues started getting too messy to ignore, Ms – Ms – uh, the one who shoots wolves from helicopters – has vanished like smoke. Now they have to say Gramps invented the Blackberry when he can’t even log onto the internet.

John invented the toaster. That’s why his old friend Joe Biden wants people to buy them so John can collect royalties.

The most important factor in all this debate is the sad fact that Hillary Clinton was forced out of the nomination process. Regardless of the economic situation at present, John McCain looks more credible and prepared than Barack Obama. If Hillary had been the democratic party’s nominee, the whole equation would have been different. In that scenario (and the worst missed opportunity for democrats), Hillary would have been the best choice for the country. Right now, thanks to the incompetent and conniving democratic party leadership, McCain is the best choice we have for president of the USA. I’d rather have a Republican war hero who fought for my country as president than a democrat whose numerous questionable associations cast serious doubts on his character and judgement. I hope Hillary runs in 2012.

The headline should be: John McCain hires ‘bone-heads’ including Tucker Bounds and Sarah Palin.
In Alaska, either Mr. Monegan was fired for trying to do what Gov. Palin hired him to do and protect the citizens of the state by seeking funding to fight Sexual Abuse which she vetoed. Or because he would not fire a certain Trooper as was her will. Either way, that’s the corrupt ‘reform’ she stands for? No thanks.
-Let the bipartisan investigation get to the bottom of it.

It shows how brave and bold the McCain camp is! There is nothing they cannot say just as they claim McCain is a change agent now. Facts and truth mean nothing to them!

I cant believe this is the issue Democrats want to run on. With Obama loosing his lead and know loosing in a number of polls he continues to attack. Obama is an Politician full of empty pie in the ski promises. He has no record to run on no experience to speak of and continues to change all of his opinions on the issues to closer align with John McCain. Fact is the The McCain Palin ticket is more experienced and has a record of delivering what they say not just promising. Obama has avoided any Debate in a town hall setting and continues to allow interviews to the media under the understanding certain questions are off limits. He has not been adequately called out about his relationships with Rev. Wright, William Ayres, and Rezko. Obama always talks about “judgment” is more important than experience but what kind of judgment does it show when you surround yourself and value the friendship and guidance of a Racist, Terrorist and Criminal Slum Lord? He says McCain is a career politician who is corrupted by the system but pick as VP candidate who has served longer and has a history of Sexist statements, and plagiarizes his speeches, not to mention he was pushing for an Iraq invasion even before President Bush. He wants to tax companies and he really believes this will benefit me how? By forcing that company to raise prices, lay me off or just move out of the United States period. How do you think he is going to pay for his agenda? Take from the rich give to the poor? News Flash if people are rich they can afford to move and spend the money they earn in a more tax friendly Country. Back to companies I found this on tax foundation.org ” Following newly released OECD data that shows U.S. corporate income taxes are 50 percent higher than the OECD average, the Tax Foundation released a revised summary showing that the US federal corporate income tax quietly taps family pocketbooks for nearly $370 billion per year in the form of higher prices, lower wages and poorer return on investment.” what does this mean dollar wise to you? well here is the answer ” “Most people think corporate income taxes are paid by wealthy, anonymous companies,” said Hodge. “But as economists have been teaching for years, ultimately people bear the burden of corporate taxes, not companies. And in 2006 that burden averaged $3,190 per household. That’s more than the average household spends on restaurant food, gasoline or home electricity in a year.” Simply put any tax increase NOBAMA gets approved will be by paid by us in the end. Wake up you Liberals and stop living on Obama Island A.K.A Fantasy Island.

Earlier this year, John McCain’s campaign offered a boast similar to what campaign Douglas Holtz-Eakin said this morning about the senator’s role in helping to create the BlackBerry.
In a survey filled out for a consortium of science groups and leading scientists and engineers, McCain wrote:
“I am the former chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. The Committee plays a major role in the development of technology policy, specifically any legislation affecting communications services, the Internet, cable television and other technologiesUnder my guiding hand, Congress developed a wireless spectrum policy that spurred the rapid rise of mobile phones and Wi-Fi technology that enables Americans to surf the web while sitting at a coffee shop, airport lounge, or public park.”

Ron needs to loosen up a bit and stop acting all uptight like Obama.

: Ryan C : That quote that you mentioned says that he and his committee where responsible for legislation that allowed these technologies to move forward. Nowhere does it ever lead us to believe they developed any technology. By the way when reporters asked McCain today about the statement he said he had nothing to do with it. Another example of a liberal biased media hyping up a non-story, again I ask what about Rev. Wright , William Ayres, Rezko? Are you afraid reporting this will ruin the chance of the medias choice for President?

I hope someday to have a son or daughter who is so talented that over the course of 70 hours they earn enough money to be in the 50 percent tax bracket. Not only that but they earn enough in 70 hours to be concerned that Barack Obama’s tax relief for the middle class which increases taxes on the top 5 percent of earners in the US will somehow affect them.

The Blackberry uses radio spectrum. The Commerce Committee opened up the spectrum for more mobile device bandwidth.
Campaign worker, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, pressed to provide an example of what McCain had accomplished on that committee, said the senator did not have jurisdiction over financial markets, then he held up his Blackberry, telling reporters: “He did this.”
“Telecommunications of the United States, the premiere innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create,” Holtz-Eakin said. “And that’s what he did. He both regulated and deregulated the industry.”
Nobody said he invented the blackberry, just that his committee opened up the regulations to allow its radio.
MORE LIBERAL LIES and SPIN.
CAN WE PLEASE GET BACK TO THE ISSUES?!?

To all of you republicans, I guess a change is a very scary thing. It is really a shame that you all want to see this country to hell in handbasket, and to be quite honest, it is apparent that you will say ANYTHING to make them look like the second coming of Christ, which by the way, should not be injected in race.

I thought the blackberry was invented by some folks in Canada! When did McCain cross over to Canada? Did I miss something here? What the heck was he and his camp thinking telling lies like this?!

Wow Tom, then your friend’s kid must be making over $200K. Your friend should be very proud.
Look at those who are or have been on McCain’s team: The fired ex CEO of HP under whose watch the stock dropped 60% and 18000 jobs were lost; Phil Graham, the man who was a a paid lobbyist to prevent banking regulations, an ex lobbyist for the country of Georgia…that was why McCain said “Today we are all Georgians”. And a VP pitbull who is being protected from the big bad media. It’s easy to be tough when you shoot from a distance. Thankfully the employees at Lehmans know that McCain’s fundamentals mean the worker and that in that rgeard we are in sound shape. I guess Lehmans is doing fine then huh?

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 104th Congress – 2nd Session
Measure Title: An original bill to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and for other purposes.
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
Soooooo…he helped create WHAT Dougie??? Boy, hte internets is (are) cool!!!

10 hours ago…”Enough is enough, this has to stop!!!’
20 minutes ago…AIG will recieve $85 Billion worth of taxpayer money for a liquidity load. Taxpayers(I mean federal government) gets 79.9% ownership stake in AIG. I’ll take cash now, please…I want no part of AIG. I wonder how the goofballs at Lehman Brothers feel. They could have waited 2-3 days and gotten $85 Billion from Uncle Sam McLame!!!

Mike,
The Obama campaign had nothing to do with this. John McCain’s camp floated the idea that John McCain, through votes in the Senate, helped lead the way to inventions like the BlackBerry. Turns out, John McCain voted AGAINST the telecom de-regulation Bill of 1996. Check the facts, something ordinary people rarely do!!!
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 104th Congress – 2nd Session
S. Bill 652 – February 1, 1996
Measure Title: An original bill to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and for other purposes.
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
You have to be an idiot to fall for this stuff!!! McCain has no clue about technology, and can’t use a computer without Cindy’s help…you think he helped invent the BlackBerry, created in Canada…I guess he was doing a job Americans won’t do!!!

“What’s the criteria? … AIG, yes. Lehman Bros., no. Bear Stearns, yes. Ford/GM/Chrysler, no. Fannie/Freddie, yes. My next door neighbor, no.”
Has anyone checked the political contributions of all these companies?

McCain can’t use a computer because of his war injuries…Heeeheee haaahaaa, you made a funny!!! Why is it, McCain can do everything under the son good because he was a “war hero”, but can’t do anything bad because he was a “war hero”, and we should elect him President because he was a “war hero”??? The “war hero” bid, is wearing a little thin these days. I mean, “war heros” come a dime a dozen in J-Mac’s 100 year war-era we’re living in.

do your own research. i did mine. that is why he can’t lift his arms.

McSame invented the Blackberry! WOW!!!
Hey, We thought he invented the wheel, the steam engine, and what not!
The GOP can only cook up stories, stories, stories and whole bunch of LIES!!! They are supporting the sleazy Mccain campaign! Shame.

hawk,
Furthermore, I can see why that Bill failed…IT WOULD HAVE GROWN GOVERNMENT!!!

You’re welcome Pat. Just a good ole fact check for ya. It’s easy with the internets that Al Gore created back in the 1990′s.

Second installment for LIAR’s edification:
This one has to do with reducing the threat of modern weapons getting into the hands of terrorists (unlike say, Cheney, who with McCain’s blessings helped send weapons to the terrorists who then used them to attack us):
In January 2007, the president signed Obama and Lugar’s legislation “Extend Terrorist Risk Insurance” (467) aimed at improving nonproliferation efforts, including eliminating stockpiles of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.
Later that year, Obama proposed creating an internationally monitored uranium reserve that would guarantee fuel would be available for commercial nuclear reactors and dissuade countries from building their own uranium enrichment capability

Unfortunately, I have real work to do, Mr. LIAR, so rather than detail
each of these one by one, I’ll let you do some research yourself on a
a few more Senate bills that Obama wrote and/or sponsored. A partial list follows, but hopefully it will teach you not to lie in public so much.
Promote relief, security and democracy in the Congo (2125)
Develop democratic institutions in areas under Palestinian control (2370).
Improve mine safety (2803)
Increased breast cancer funding (597)
Reduce preterm delivery and complications, reduce infant mortality (707).
Strengthening the Freedom of Information Act (2488)
Full disclosure of all entities receiving federal funds (2590)
Amend the Patriot Act (2167)
Wave passport fees to visit graves, attend memorials/funerals of veterans abroad (1184).
Suspend royalty relief for oil and gas (115)
Reduce dependence on oil; use of alternative energy sources (133)
Increase fuel economy standards for cars (767, 768)
Auto industry incentives for fuel efficient vehicles (1151)
Reduce green house gas emissions (1324)
Establish at NSF a climate change education program (1389)
Increase renewable content of gasoline (2202)
Energy emergency relief for small businesses and farms (269)
Strategic gasoline and fuel reserves (1794)
Alternative diesel standards (3554)
Coal to liquid fuel promotion (3623)
Renewable diesel standards (1920)
Reducing global warming pollution from vehicles (2555)
Fuel security and consumer choice (1994, 2025)
Alternative energy refueling system (2614)
Climate change education (1389)
Low income energy assistance (2405)
Oil savings targets (339)
Fuel economy reform (3694)
Plug-in electric drive vehicles (1617)
Nuclear release notice (2348)
Passenger rail investment (294)
Energy relief for low income families (2405)
21 addressed Health Care
Drug re-importation (334)
Health information technology (1262, 1418)
Discount drug prices (2347)
Health care associated infections (2278)
Hospital quality report cards (692, 1824)
Medical error disclosure and compensation (1784)
Emergency medical care and response (1873)
Stem cell research (5)
Medical Malpractice insurance (1525)
Health centers renewal (901, 3771)
Children”s health insurance (401)
Home health care (2061)
Medicare independent living (2103)
Microbicides for HIV/AIDS (823)
Ovarian cancer biomarker research (2569)
Gynological cancers (1172)
Access to personalized medicine through use of human genome (976)
Paralysis research and care (1183)
20 addressed Public Health:
Violence against women (1197)
Biodefense and pandemic preparedness and response (1821, 1880)
Viral influenza control (969)
End homelessness (1518)
Reduce STDs/unintended pregnancy (1790)
Smoking prevention and tobacco control (625)
Minority health improvement and disparity elimination (4024)
Nutrition and physical education in schools (2066)
Health impact assessments (1067, 2506)
Healthy communities (1068)
Combat methamphetamines (2071)
Paid sick leave (910)
Prohibit mercury sales (833, 1818)
Prohibit sale of lead products (1306, 2132)
Lead exposure in children (1811, 2132)
14 address Consumer Protection/Labor
Stop unfair labor practices (842)
Fair minimum wage (2, 1062, 2725, 3829)
Internet freedom (2917)
Credit card safety (2411)
Media ownership (2332)
Protecting taxpayer privacy (2484)
Working family child assistance (218)
Habeus Corpus Restoration (185)
Bankruptcy protection for employees and retirees (2092)
FAA fair labor management dispute resolution (2201)
Working families flexibility (2419).

Wow – Wow – WOW! Is this story 100% off base… the news is NOT the embelishment of the blackberry the NEWS is that a potential presidential candidate doesn’t know how to use a computer or send and receive emails!!! The spin is that his “AIDE” does it for him. That’s B.S.!
Does anyone truly want a President who doesn’t understand the basical principles behind current technology???? WOW – nothing has effected me nearly as much as this simple, seemingly innocuous admission.

Further, as Jonah Goldberg points out, “In 2000, Forbes magazine called him the ‘Senate’s savviest technologist.’ That same year, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg gushed that McCain was the most ‘cybersavvy’ of all the presidential candidates that year, a crop that included none other than Al Gore. Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Weisberg explained, ‘forced him to learn about the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos fascinate him.’”