No, but he sure can type

The Obama campaign has hit a new low with its ad castigating John McCain for not being able to send an e-mail. The ad was pretty lame to begin with; millions of people in this country do not know how to send e-mails, and mocking McCain in this way may well offend them. More important, however, is the now-publicized fact as to why McCain is not computer savvy: the repeated beatings he suffered while a prisoner of war have left him incapable of using a keyboard. Nice one David Axelrod: spend millions to produce and show an ad that in essence attacks McCain as being unfit to be president because he was permanantly injured in the service of the USA. Obama's signature issue has always been the war in Iraq; Bush used poor intelligence and bad judgment in leading the US to war according to Obama. Obama claims that he would do better. Now, however, he has put forward an ad that uses bad intelligence (all they would have to do is use Google to find the reason for McCain's inability to use e-mail). If Obama knew that McCain could not type due to his war injuries, then Obama had displayed extremely bad judgment and venom. If Obama did not know, then he just made his decision without checking the facts -- again bad judgment in my opinion.