in the anit-mccain camp

[rkt]

i am supposed to writing and/or researching. i could also probably be sleeping since i have nyc nanny duty for the new nephew in the am. researching is so ridiculously distracting and i keep catching myself reading articles which, while awesome, aren't going to help me at all with either of the two papers due this week.

so i decided to break and read lj. always an awesome idea.

which brings us to the gimp parade's link to this (close-captioned) video illustrating the ridiculousness of mccain's claim that he doesn't use a computer becaue of his (POW related) physical disabilities

Watch on YouTube

which i like in a political irony sort of way since everyone else seems to be expected to possess boot straps, except mc cain.

Comments

[kaygigi.livejournal.com]

McCain can't use a computer because he's a fogey old dinosaur who never left the fifties. Perhaps because all of my grandparents were academics, but perhaps just because they aged with the times, all of them, at their respective deathbeds, knew how to use computers. I would like to point out that one of my grandparents died suddenly and young in 1967... but his final job was computer programmer, so um, yeah, pretty sure he knew how to use a computer, albeit a computer the size of Zach's apartment.
There is NO valid excuse in 2008 for not having at least a passing knowledge of computers, at least not for a rich white man. Structural issues prevent whole classes of people from having limited access to computers, but hell, if theres one thing McCain doesn't have, its structural barriers to privilege!

[kaygigi.livejournal.com]

Ok, my grammar is totally off in that second paragraph. Strike the word "limited" from the second sentance!