Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate’s top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.
“He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry. “Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce committee so you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that’s what he did.”
Al Gore, call your office.
Blackberrys by the way are a product of Research in Motion, a Canadian company. They’re having an election in Canada Senator McCain. Try your luck up there. And take Governor Palin with you — you can see Canada from Alaska, so she must be an expert on Canada.
For the record, Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. The whole story was bogus.
Uh…this is the same “de-regulated” telecommunications market that has wireless customers in the U.S. purchasing cell phones tied to a specific carrier while everyone else in the world can buy their perfect phone and then select their perfect carrier? Gee, he did a swell job on that.
My husband knows well that the absolute most foolproof way for anyone to get me to froth at the mouth and absolutely LOSE MY MIND is to make a crack about Al Gore “inventing the internet.”
Although, the fact that Sarah Palin forced rape victims in Wasilla to pay for their own forensic kits is now possibly even better at making me apoplectic.
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http://www.sph.umich.edu/~rwatt/quayle.htm