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[AP] Adviser says McCain helped create the BlackBerry

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  1. Roxfan73

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    I am not making this up:

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    Adviser says McCain helped create the BlackBerry


    MIAMI (AP) — 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.
     
    #1 Roxfan73, Sep 16, 2008
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    McCain might as well have Baghdad Bob as his spokesman.
     
    #2 Franchise2001, Sep 16, 2008
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    He doesn't know how to use a computer, but helped create the BlackBerry. :rolleyes:
     
    #3 dntrwl, Sep 16, 2008
  4. B-Bob

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    Even if he somehow can take any credit... would you want credit for the blackberry?
     
    #4 B-Bob, Sep 16, 2008
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    "I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in."

    Name that show and episode where this quote came from...
     
    #5 leroy, Sep 16, 2008
  6. rimrocker

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    Gore's comment was not a gaffe.
     
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    That previous post of mine goes to the other thread on this topic.

    Meanwhile, people have realized that the company making Blackberries is Canadian.
     
    #7 rimrocker, Sep 16, 2008
  8. BigBenito

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    From the quote, I honestly can't tell if he's claiming McCain helped create the blackberry or the internet.

    If it is the latter... Gore is going to be pissed.
     
    #8 BigBenito, Sep 16, 2008
  9. rockbox

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    Whats even more messed up is the blackberry is a Canadian product. He could even help an American company?
     
    #9 rockbox, Sep 16, 2008
  10. Invisible Fan

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    Didn't McCain cochair the creation of the printing press too?
     
    #10 Invisible Fan, Sep 16, 2008
  11. DaDakota

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    At what point do people look at their campaign and all the lies and throw their hands back and laugh at them?

    DD
     
    #11 DaDakota, Sep 16, 2008
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    Obama created the iPhone!! :eek: :eek:
     
    #12 thelasik, Sep 16, 2008
  13. Refman

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    I knew there was a reason I didn't like him. :D
     
    #13 Refman, Sep 16, 2008
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    Futurama, the bureaucrat episode. and they kept it gray.
     
    #14 francis 4 prez, Sep 16, 2008
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    McCain is so old that he created the blackberry, the fruit, not the smartphone.
     
    #15 Baqui99, Sep 16, 2008
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    The guy has lied so much lately, and gotten so much wrong.

    McCain lied about Palin's earmarks.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-earmarks13-2008sep13,0,625580.story

    Then he lied about lying about it.

    We also have McCain putting out a sleazy ad attacking a vote Obama made that would protect kindergarten students from child predators.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12fri3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


    Then yesterday as the Stock Market was having one of the worst crisis this century McCain was telling people that the fundamentals of the economy were strong.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/15/politics/fromtheroad/entry4449233.shtml

    The guy is having a meltdown.
     
    #16 FranchiseBlade, Sep 16, 2008
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    You know what, I have come to the conclusion that McCain cannot be this blind,stupid, nonchalant about today's issues and the needs of the people. His advisers have to be the ones feeding him this crap. I still won't vote for him but he does need a new team of advisers.
     
    #17 tested911, Sep 16, 2008
  18. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Actually - Al Gore may indeed be the father of the world wide web. It was his legislation that created it and moved it from a military technology to a commerical one.

    But I didn't know McCain was helping Canadians invent the blackberry which was actually made by RIM, Research in Motion, a company based out of Ontario.
     
    #18 Sweet Lou 4 2, Sep 16, 2008
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    Well we can take reassurance in the fact that while Wall Street is in a meltdown, McCain knows the US economy is fundamentally strong.

    Anybody else reassured by his grasp of the economy?

    Anybody?

    Beuller?
     
    #19 Rashmon, Sep 16, 2008
  20. Agent94

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    The internet was started in the 60's through an ARPA grant. The WWW was developed at CERN in 89-90. Al Gore had nothing to do with either.

     
    #20 Agent94, Sep 16, 2008
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