(CNN) – McCain senior domestic policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said Tuesday the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device was a “miracle that John McCain helped create.”
Addressing the nation’s economic crisis, Holtz-Eakin told reporters traveling with the campaign “there’s no magic solution. And I don’t think that it’s at this moment imperative to write down exactly what the plan has to be.” He also said a president isn’t someone who needs to be heavily involved in policy specifics, which should be handled by “quality” advisers, and echoed McCain’s assessment that there might be a need for a “9/11-style commission” to determine what went wrong with the nation's economy, and to issue recommendations.
He added, though, that McCain — who has struggled to stress his economic credentials this cycle - did have experience dealing with the economy, pointing to his time on the Senate Commerce Committee. Pressed to provide an example of what McCain had accomplished on that committee, Holtz-Eakin said the senator did not have jurisdiction over financial markets - then 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,” said Holtz-Eakin. “And that’s what he did. He both regulated and de-regulated the industry.”
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Al Gore drew controversy when he said that during his time in Congress, he “took the initiative in creating the Internet” – based on his work promoting funding and early research in that area.
UPDATE: The Obama campaign responded to the comments minutes after they were reported. “If John McCain hadn’t said that ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ on the day of one of our nation’s worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week,” said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
Meanwhile, McCain senior aide Matt McDonald said that the senator "laughed" when he heard the comment.
"He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry. This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer," McDonald said.
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LMAO, from the guy who doesn't know how to email or use a computer. He gets credit for the BLACKBERRY?
Do they just throw darts at ideas in the McCain camp and then just put them together with trained monkey's?
Throw three darts one hits Palin, one hits Never was for, the last hit Bridge to Nowhere.
That's how they really must do it.
Give me a freaking break. ARe these people on halucenigenic (sp)drugs? Their grip on reality is becoming frightening; how can any sane stable person believe anything that comes out of the mouth of this campaign or it's surrogates.
"During the 2000 presidential campaign, Al Gore drew controversy..."
And I'm desperately hoping that McCain goes out like Gore: I hope McCain gets more popular vote, but loses in the electoral college.
Then we can hear Republicans (the same ones who said "tough cookie" back in '00) complain... we'll see who the REAL whiners are. Payback would be nice, wouldn't it?
Bridge to Nowhere – a miracle I helped to create by asking for a earmark – I am Sarah Palin and I approve this message.
McCain created the Blackberry? Maybe we should put him to work as a engineer creating alternative power instead of putting him in the White House.
Go JOHN/SARA 08
HILLARY – 012 BUT IF ...
PALIN 012
OBAMA – 025 JUST FOR HIM TO GET EXP.
Holy Jumping Joe! McCain can't use a computer, but he helped create the miracle of the Blackberry. He's getting more and more desperate. I guess he would rather look like a fool than the guy who helped create the "miracle" of the collapsing economy (which he ACTUALLY did). Very, very sad.
OMG NOW YOU ARE SAYING MCCAIN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BLACKBERRY??????JEEZ.Z...THATS AS BAD AS GORE SAYING HE INVENTED THE INTERNET!!!!!THIS SILLYLITTLE MAN AND HIS IDIOT NON SPEAKING PIG WITH LIPSTICK NEED TO GO!!!
Veterans for Obama
Pathetic. What else to say. I don't have no particular party affiliation but my respect towards John McCain is long gone. It seems that he will do anything to win the election. His words such as 'country first' sound hollow now. He is just another typical Washington politician, nothing else.
LOL, that's too funny...
WOW! Another lie! Here we go. This is just really rediculous. The fact is he is still gaing in the polls. So what does this say about the American people?? We like dishonest people??
T H E---V ER Y--I T EM --H E--–D OE S N' T--–U S E--
HO W---A B O U T-–T HA T ?
He does not even know how to use email. Bit rich for him to take credit for Blackberrys or cell phones in general. And which numpty would have thrown stones into the boom of this technology anyway. It was a no brainer.
In any case, which country has not benefited from the cell phone boom. Not really a US leading economy, is it. Total spin, this story. Pitiful really.
WHAT...........HUH.......WHAT.......................
GORE INVENTED THE INTERNET
MCCAIN INVENTED THE BLACKBERRY.. BUT HE CAN NOT SEND AN EMAIL............. WOW
MAYBE THEY MEANT TO SAY MCCAIN, ATE SOME BLACKBERRIES ON THE COOKING SHOW........... LOL. THIS IS TOO FUNNY
From The Guardian...stuff you wont see in the US press
Yesterday of course the Dow lost 500+ points to close at 10,917. More trouble is expected today.
Just for the record, on the day Bush took office, the DJIA was 10,578. Wow! What a gain! Man those Republicans really know how to get the economy humming! That's a 3.1% gain - in eight short years!
If the Dow today has another day like yesterday, we will actually be below where we were the day Bush took office.
Oh: The Dow average the day Bill Clinton took office was 3,242. His Dow went up 226%.
More good commercial fodder, no? 226% to 3%.
I thought he created the wheel?
Truth of the matter is the only blackberry McFool's familiar with grows on a vine.
hahahahahaha
Gore invented the internets, McCain invented the Blackberry.
John mccain missed the civil rights movement due to him being a POW.
He also made Martin Luther King day in arizona a non-holiday.
Ha – Blackberry is an almost 100% Canadian invention. How he can take credit for the Blackberry is beyond me.
I am a republican supporter but I do have to call BS when I see it.
The Blackberry. Just yesterday, it was said that he could not even use the computer because of his injury as a POW, just incase we Americans did not know he was a P O W that means for the less educated people, Prisoner of War (break it down) could not fly defensively to avoid being struck down. P O W. No one and I mean no one contradicts this. We are glad that he survived. But please please stop referring to his extreme experience for president to be lifted up by his downfall as a P O W. I get it. But back to my first thought, NOW he Mr. McCain invented the telecommunication era? Give me a break. In twenty some years with all the people who were and I do mean WERE regulating wall street, NOW the MAVRICKS will step in and regulate. LOL LOL LOL OMG OMG, I am sure McCain who invented the telecommunication era knows what that means.
I thought he invented the telephone?
ROFL...LMAO...The same guy who can't send out an e-mail is now suddenly the same guy who helped "create" the Blackberry!!! How desperate is this campaign getting?!
I also have no particular party affiliation but I have always respected John McCain. And I still do.
Eeeeeer... Blackberry is made by RIM (Research In Motion)...
Which I believe is a Canadian company.
Is John McCain Canadian now....? LOL!
Here's the difference...McCain never said he created the Blackberry. His ADVISOR said he helped contribute to the creation.
Not the same as Al Gore, Candidate at the time claiming responsibility for the internet.
iPhones are better.
AHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAH
u serious?
McCain's intellectual development arrested before 1960. He doesn't even have a theoretical understanding of a stand alone computer, much less a PDA type device like a BlackBerry. This is yet one more in a long string of lies McCain is willing to support, and it doesn't even have to be fact checked since he gave us the answer himself.
John, because your gardener planted a berry shrub in your garden doesn't mean you invented the Blackberry. It just means you're too rich to know the difference between fruit and electricity.
Thanks John,want to buy an apple?
He created the Blackberry but can't use it...wow!!!
that's so funny. the McCain campaign will say anything, won't they?
Wow, thank you Senator McCain. I never knew you invented the Blackberry.
What won't the McCain campaign say or do to get elected? They want power so badly...they are pathetic and sick.
They were talking about regulating and de-regulating the telecommunications industry you MORONS not the Blackberry device.
That's as silly as saying that Palin has foreign policy knowledge because she can see from her porch!
Closeness does not equate knowledge!
The very least CNN reporters could have done is to note the facts about the Blackberry.
For the record: The Blackberry was invented by a Canadian who went to the University of Waterloo and established the company called RIM or Research in Motion located in the city of Kitchener/Waterloo in Ontario Canada.
What a dolt. The Blackberry was created by a Canadian company.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed telecom companies to re-consolidate and expand, but it had nothing to do with inventing the Blackberry.
To be honest, I've always wondered how McCain, who has stated he doesn't know how to email or use the internet, how did he ever vote on all these bills? How did he legislate something he didn't understand?
It's scary to think that people really believe this C-–.
In other words, McCain doesn't have a clue about the economy but will authorize a commission to look into what went wrong and rely upon advisors to make the final decision? Please! Haven't we had enough of a president who hasn't a clue on anything and relies upon advisors who really run the country?
I don't know the facts, but it's hard to imagine someone who is unable to use a computer ever coming up with an idea like the Blackberry.
Remember, Al Gore also invented the internet. Not.
This is just getting down right bizzare. Is he responsible for gravity to? Although it's becoming typical. Asked for accomplishments and they just make something up.
I cant send an email but I can create the Blackberry.
Its like saying u cant have sex but u can make a baby.
That's hilarious!!!
The guy can't use email, and he's responsible for the Blackberry??
Stephen Hawking can use a computer, what's McCain's excuse?
John McCain had absolutely nothing to do with the BLACKBERRY!
I'm putting my boots on because it is getting awfully deep in here!
And Al Gore invented the Internet
Ummm... the blackberry was created in Canada. What an idiot!
Abacus, yes. Blackberry, no. Time to change Grampy's diaper.
This is becoming very sad. I would half believe it IF he knew what a black berry looks like, let alone use one.
McCain has gone from distorting, lying & pandering to the brink of insanity-and so have his supporters. What moron would vote for a VP under investigation (stalling won't work Sarah)
Thank you McCain for this catchy Al Gore moment that can be carried 24/7 by the MSM and carry you to defeat.
Yes, I wish we could have a campaign that focuses on the issues and who would be best able to handle the problems that arise, but sadly large sections of the American people just plain aren't that smart or mature yet. I've seen Obama's plans and I like them, I've seen McCain's plans and I don't like them. If the rest of the election has to be about trivialities and sound bites, so be it.
That Johnny's a crazy kid.
And didn't Gore invent the internets?
This is hilarious.
?????!
This is disturbingly strange. What is in the water over at the McCain headquarters?
here you idiots go again blowing things out of proportion.
i won't fall for it.
John gets the Blackberry, but Steve gets the iPhone! I'll go with Steve.
Oh Dear God! A man who can't/hasn't used a computer, never sent an email, had anything at all to do with the invention of the Blackberry...how stupid do they think we are??? McBush becomes more of a clown with bad jokes every day.
Amazing he could have reached into Canada, where the Blackberry is from, and created it at long distance . . .
Is this a rerun of Gore "I invented the internet"... now it's going to be mccain: "I invented the blackberry" hahahhaha .. I am having a good laugh
Sarah Palin is nothing more than a parrot … And John McCain is nothing but a baked potato that someone tried to heat up and fry …
Yes and Sarah invented the tanning bed.
oh guys come on...this is a joke, huh?
So where is McMagic's magic stick??? this is completely laughable. A Konrad Zuse(if he still lived) could stand up and say he helped inventing the PC by inventing the "z2" and "z3" – well that would be right, because he invented something.
Come on, just sitting in a committee, probably doing nothing than "thumbs up" or down, whatever your adviser says would be right and than be claimed as one of the inventers??? this is a joke, a really bad one.
truly, this Douglas Holtz-Eakin is DUMB AS A BUCKET OF SHRIMP!!!
and what kind of "inventer" is McCain if he doesn't even know about E-Mail??? Come on, stick to the issues, not that kinda BS!
And they shall call him John McCain for he shall doth Miracles.
And Al Gore invented the internet, Bill Clinton invented a new definition to the word "is", and Dan Quayle and GW just plain invented words in general.
Blackberry, huh? Oh yeah, I'm believing that..... Just like I believe Palin has nothing to hide in Alaska..... Just like I believe Cindy McCian didn't deserve to be brought up on drug charges.... Just like I believe John McCain gets it on the economy (and everything else).
Oh yeah..... And I believe in the Tooth Fairy!
The Obama campaign unleashed an ad mocking John McCains inablity to use a computer and a keyboatrd. Turns out that McCain lost alot of the dexterity in his fingers when he suffered the repeated injuries to his arms during his 5 years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi. It's the same reason he can't lift his arms over his own head or comb his own hair. How much lower can you go than that? It's despicable.
Yeah, me too. And the internet. Or "internets."
Is everybody on that campaign out of their minds?
ROFLMAO
At least, despite the economy, the GOP ticket is keeping my sense of humor alive and well these days.
c'mon now this is getting rediculous.
I think the Republicans have the right idea on immigration.
Elect McShame so everyone leaves voluntarily
Al Gore created the internet.
McCain created the blackberry.
Obama created the recession.
LoL.... I can't stop laughing. Does he know how to use a Blackberry????????????????
Come to think of it, are we sure that creating a monopoly for a Canadian company in the US telecom market was a good thing?
Doesn't the fact that RIM, the creators of the Blackberry, are Canadian make this a particularly ludicrious lie, even for Senator MCCain's campaign?
LOL....LOL...LOL....LOL...LOL....
Mccain is a blueberry inventor, Palin is an oil expert. his wife is a bear expert, and her husband is a moose catcher expert. What a team!!!!!!!!!
May be fiorina can put them to use.... in a museum.
Obama/Biden 08
Research In Motion is a Canadian company. Maybe he should concentrate on Americans
This is really getting ridiculous. Tomorrow they will be saying that McCain also created God (if they think it will help them win).
First he says the fundamentals of the economy are strong on the same day as the worst DOW plunch since 9/11. Now he's invented the Blackberry...priceless!!
Sounds like a bunch of BS. Stop lying GOP.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08
McCain helped creating Earth and the heavens too !!
HIs comments sound a lot like "We do not know what to do and we sure do not have anything to say about the fiasco." And now the President is solely a figurehead that lets everybody else do and figure out everything? Now we owe McCain thanks for the Blackberry?
Please, somebody tell me this is a very bad joke or prank and this is not current status of our Presidential campaign.
Wow. Next thing you know he'll be taking credit for inventing the question mark.
I'm so busy laughing I can't get anything done, what a joke.
Their desperate to show that McCain has some knowledge on the economy when he doesn't.....How does this help with creating jobs and stopping people from losing their homes? This is laughable.
Just when I thought the lies and exaggerations from the McCain camp could not get any worse. McCain should just declare himself to be President in the hopes that people will simply believe him. It is obvious that his supporters are more interested in remembering the 2000 version of McCain and NOT the 2008 lying, "will do anything to win", version.
why isn't CNN covering the $30,000 a ticket fundraiser Obama's wealthy Hollywood friends are throwing him?
I guess Obama DOESN'T GET that 95% of Americans can't afford $30k to get access to their candidate!
HAHAHAHAHA OH GOD ITS SO FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Senator McCain, my Blackberry seems to have stopped working.
A few months after being laid off I paid my son's tuition with the last of my savings. I don't know what we'll do for his last semester.
Then my wife had a relatively minor medical issue for which we no longer have insurance. That cleaned us out.
My Blackberry service stopped about 90 days after I paid the last bill I could. I don't get the impression it's a mental issue.
Can you please fix it?
Are you serious.........McCain is a complete computer illiterate. He cannot even sign on to the INTERNET> It was by complete accident that this srewball has done anything for personalized communications. I supposed he also was a champion of women's rights ??? This is getting Ridiculous........who's running this campaign ??? Palin????
This is hilarious!! It's bad enough that his domestic policy advisor said it's not necessary at this time to write down a specific plan for the economy, but then gives McCain credit for inventing the Blackberry??? This just keeps getting better and better.
Excuse me if I'm wrong here.......but Blackberry was created and is still owned by RIM (Research In Motion) a Canadian company. Does he mean that since he can see Canada from the ranch he created it?
Listen people, I LOVED my grandfather. He was a great man. When he was 72 he slowly starting losing his "facilities". Don't ignore the facts, we've all been down this road. John is slowly losing it and when he's lost it all he will leave us with a President who wants to invade Russia, tell women what to do with their bodies, teach creatism in school and crush those of us who disagree with her under her shoe. Does this not sound like the old Soviet Union? Did we not stand up to them?
You couldn't write stuff like this!! Where do they get it from??
Please. the clown cannot log onto a computer.
And Palin has been in a bank lobby, so that must make her his economic guru.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
I cannot find the time portal to exit this very bad X-FILES rerun, so would someone out there please send Agent Scully?
Thank you.
And if you listen closely, you can here Al Gore laughing to himself.
"McCain senior domestic policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said Tuesday the Blackberry mobile e-mail device was a “miracle that John McCain helped create.”
LOL!!! Like how? Are you talking about the miracle in 2000 in what he said about South Carolina?? You know what I'm talking about. Or was it when he "allegedly" wanted to get out of the GOP?? LOL!!!! Now that's a miracle...
Well, McCain and his campaign lie about everything else, so I guess why not start taking credit for popular things that he's never done too?
Pitiful. And I'm a registered independent who used to respect and support McCain. No more. Obama is clearly the more even-keeled, capable leader for our country.
Hahahahaha. now john "I don't know how to access the Internet" McCain invented the Blackberry? Is there anything the McCain campaign won't lie about?
The blackbarry was invented in
CANADA!!!
By Research in Motion (RIM)
Addressing the nation’s economic crisis, Holtz-Eakin told reporters traveling with the campaign “there’s no magic solution. And I don’t think that it’s at this moment imperative to write down exactly what the plan has to be.”
OMG- so you are basically saying he knows diddly squat about the eocnomy, he doesn't need to know anything about the economy, and a commission will put the economy back on track?????? Where do these people come from and why would anybody vote for McCain???? He doesn't need a plan but vote for him and he'll appoint a commission to find out hwat happened.............. How about finding ways to solve the crisis. Typical Republican- always looking to the past and not the future.
And now he is the one who is responsible for the Blackberry? I retract my earlier statement that his "fundamentals" comment will be the death of his campaign. In one day he has topped that and THIS is now the death of his campaign. McCain is so out of touch that it is laughable and sickening at the same time.
Stop this nonsense. Do and say anything to stay in the news.
STOP -ENOUGH,
It is amazing to me that anyone would even consider putting this party back in the White House....they are a joke, but unfortunately it is not funny...I like so many other Americans am drowning fast...
Lets keep him creating phones that he cant use!
Obama-Biden 08
The biggest Economic Blunder of this Campaign So Far.....
The New ad should go as Follows.
Narrator: McCain Record on our Domestic Economy...The invention of the BLACKBERY.
Barack if you do not take advantage of this GAF. I will be at home on 11/04.
The Blackberry was invented, marketed and produced in Canada by Canadians.Come on CNN do some research!!
Haven't I heard this before??
No wait ... that was something about Al Gore and the internet.
serioulsy?
The Blackberry is a Canadian invention.
Hilarious!
He doesn't even know how to use a blackberry.
That is great! I cant stop laughing long enough to send a serious comment!!!
Come on now, guys. What they really meant was that McCain invented blackberry the fruit, not the device. Isn't he about as old as Johnny Appleseed anyway?
"He both regulated and de-regulated the industry.”
sounds like "I voted for the bill before I voted against it" that Kerry was riduculed about.....
silly Republicans.....tricks are for kids!
GOD HELP US ALLLL
This would be funny if it weren't so frighteningly bizarre. Seriously, does McCain even know what a Blackberry is-or what it does? Statements like these, aided with horrendously dishonest ads, have solidified my choice for Obama. Not only that, but McCain has encircled himself with Bush Camp Alumnus, the ones who brought you Iraq and the Sinking (Sunken??) Economy. Thanks for the offer McCain, but a silly old man and an even sillier, corrupt woman are not what we need in the White House this year.
Obama/Biden 08
WHAT! Then why does he not know how to use the internet...Come on this is so stupid!
McCain and his camp have all lost their minds...this man CANNOT be president...I am absolutely convinced of this NOW! I mean seriously!
Huh? How? Where?
Sometimes I find myself thinking that the McCain Campaign is trying to send out dumb quotes to the 24 hour MSM. To some extent, it probably is good for them, because every minute the media isn't laser focused on the economic meltdown they're winning the daily news battle. But do you really want to come off looking like idiots when the nation is dire straits on so many fronts. I guess I feel they could be fighting the wrong battles and thereby losing the war.
This is hilarious.
Now, forgive my ignorance, but are "we" now saying that McSame invented the BlackBerry AND the Internet? This coming from the guy who probably was around when the abacus was invented.
Whenever you thought things couldn't get worse, McSame manages to top himself.
Please America, can we please show that we're not this stupid?
Go Obama/Biden!!!
Morals and Values for sale! : You really should have read Forbes' and the Boston Globe's articles from EIGHT YEARS AGO that show McCain doesn't email because he can't type. He can't type because the Vietnamese smashed his fingers and shattered his arms.
Nice work, attacking the handicapped. "Stand up, Chuck" Biden would be proud.
oh yeah, and al gore invented the internet.
TO: Texico from Mexico
Gore NEVER said he invented the internet. He introduced its use into the Senate. Even Newt agrees with that. It was the Republican slime machine that started that rumor but rumors are always more interesting than facts.
Wasn't the Blackberry invented in Canada by RIM?
Someone please ask him to demonstrate!
JOHN MCCAIN DOESNT EVEN KNOW HIS OWN EMAIL ADDRESS, BUT HE HELPED INVENT THE BLACKBERRY...LOL. WOW...THESE PEOPLE STOP @ NOTHING TO GIVE CREDIT TO THIS MAN......IS IT ME OR DO THEY ACT LIKE THEY ARE IN A CULT OR SOMMETHING AND JOHN MCCAIN IS "EVERYTHING"! EVEN WHEN HE SAYS THESE THINGS OUT HIS OWN MOUTH, THEY ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO CLEAN UP HIS MESS.....WOW
And Al Gore was responsible for access to the internet as we know it, but those days it was called the undernet. Really. If McCain was sitting on the Commerce Committee when the committee pushed through innovations as the Blackberry, then yeah, he was (at least in part) responsible for the blackberry's existence.
was that blackberry made out of stones?
I know john mccain didn't create the blackberry. But I do know something about him!
John mccain missed the civil rights movement due to him being a POW.
He also made Martin Luther King day in arizona a non-holiday.
To be noted – ANOTHER BIG LIE!!!!!
give me a break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is going from very sad to seriously pathetic
What? Give me a break. The fundamentals of a sleazy campaign are strong!
OMG This is Hilarious. The man doesnt even know how to email...yet you want the American Public to believe that he helped create the Blackberry?!?!?!? ROTFL
McCain and hiscampaign has hijacked the comedy industry! They make me laugh out loud daily.
Maybe Obama should employ them as jesters in the whitehouse.
Does MCCain even know what is a blackberry, he can hardly find his way to a computer. This campaign reeks of desperation. As usual CNN will find a way to "toast" this one, too scared to confront McCain. As Candy Crowly and David Gergen said, no-one will get up in the morning and ask who made the blackberry. Along with Campbell Brown, who up to a point of irritation kept asking "Do we know enough about Obama, people have questions?" they are too busy drooling over Mcain/Palin. The View is what we must look to for answers. Nuf said!
FYI, the Blackberry was invented in Canada by a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
I think the Canadians who actually developed the Blackberry would have something to say about that.
You must be kidding. This is a bad joke and BS!
McPain and his crew are lying idiots. This man couldn't invent his way out of a paper bag with both ends open. He was made a fool out of on the View and his lipstick wearing, hockey playing, out of touch as a mom, bear hunting, moose eating, barbie doll was made a fool out of on ABC. (OMG her experience with foriegn policy is being able to see Russia from the highest mountain in her state) McPain and his crew are jokes.
Worth repeating:
Fact is – McCain said the same thing at least 3 times since January:
"I still believe our fundamental underpinnings of our economy are strong."
-Sen. John McCain (1/23/08)
"I still believe the fundamentals of our economy are strong."
-Sen. John McCain (8/20/08)
"Our economy, I believe, still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong…"
-Sen. John McCain (9/15/08)
We Won't Get Fooled Again!
Just for the record – Blackberries are created by Research In Motion – A CANADIAN COMPANY.
and strawberry too ::))
Then ask McCain how to use it...or better yet, it's functions. This is rich.
Good and he help create the recession we are in too. Kudos to you Mcain, you deserve my vote of non confidence.
Genuinely funny stuff!
I am about to throw up.
The thought that this pathetic crowd of losers could become the presidentital party of our country again literally makes me sick to my stomach. This is aweful.
How in the world are they continuing to fool so many? They are a joke. They just go to prove that Obama was dead wrong when he said "people are not stupid!"
Mr. Mcdesperate & Mrs. Nowhere
Get rid of them. This drama has to end.
TexicoFrom Mexico: Al Gore said (and this website has the transcript) "during my time in the Congress, I took the initiative and created the internet."
Show me how that's out of context.
You have got to be kidding me. McCain invented the Blackberry?????
This is a gift softball right down the middle of the plate that Obama should be able to hit out of the park.
So Mccain Created The Black Berry? Ha Ha Ha! Now Thats Just Too Funny! My Son Believes In The Tooth Fairy But I Bet He Would Not Believe That Mccain Made The Black Berry! Let Me Tell You What Mccain Did Make! He Made The Financial Collapse We Are About To Face! I Cant Wait To Vote For Obama!
Considering he isn't on the "Internets", it's a safe bet that he didn't invent that...Is this McSame's "Al Gore" moment?
The people involved the McCain Campaign (including McCain and Palin) are a disgrace to our election process if not our country.
'He also said a president isn’t someone who needs to be heavily involved in policy specifics, which should be handled by “quality” advisers.' Yeah, we all saw how well that concept worked with W's cabinet, didn't we?
Every day, the McCain campaign gets more ridiculous, and every day I become more convinced that he's going to win in a landslide.
The Blackberry is a Canadian invention. It is made by Research in Motion based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Boye _
And they shall call him John McCain for he shall doth Miracles.
That was funny. May I use please?
This election is getting to be plain stupid.
I am really tired of McCain's people. They can put more elastic in a statement than there is in a rubberband.
McCain helped create the Blackberry- does he even know what a Blackberry is except a fuirt?
Sarah said no tot he bridge to nowhere- but they fail to mention she kept the money.
And pigs with lipstick- was McCain's ideas, not Sarah's face.
Canwe get on with real issues guys?
Its sad to say that McCain is responsible for creating the Blackberry? One lie after another. When will these lies end?
OBAMA/BIDEN 08'12
Blackberry? Razzberry more likely....
and typical GOP... he's already started in with yet another Commission.... McCain is an idiot..
NO THIRD TERM FOR BUSH
What's next? Palin invented the snowblower? Come on, give me a break. While McCain has lost grip on the economy, his campaign has lost grip on reality.
The republicklan lie machine moves on.
I'll say this much for them. They sure know how to tell 'em. The crazier the better for these folks.
Simply...er.....unbelievable.
Not this time!!!
No way. No how. No McCain. No Palin.
I'd rather have a "typical Washington politician" with years of experience than a "community organizer" with a Senator Label.
Seems senility affects more than McBush
So Obama can send emails to Scarlet Johanson or some other Hollywood startlet....BFD. What does that have to do with being President....nothing. Oh and just what has Obama accomplished in the Senate....a big zero. The guy is all style and no substance. But that's good enough for people that don't think.
According to Wikipedia the Blackberry was devised by the Canadian company Research in Motion in 1997. Maybe McCain worked there for a while.
Is that all this fluff story is about!?!?! I thought for sure there was now demonstrable proof that McLame was present at the creation and designed the freaking plant. Jeeeez . . . save this space for some real news!
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THIS IS NOT A JOKE........IS THIS HIS PLAN FOR THE ECONOMY
McSame's adviser said that the President does not have to be heavily involved in policy decisions. Ok, here we go again with the dumbing down dude. Although we have really smart qualified people who can be President and understand and hang with the policy specifics (like Clinton did when he was Pres), lets put a C student (Bush) in office who is too stupid to keep up. McSame finished about 894 out of 899 at the naval academy. Obama was a top tier student at both Columbia and Harvard.
Hey, he's a POW leave him alone.
...WOW...would love to hear what Research In Motion would have to say about this comment, huh? Since when does regulating/deregulating the telecommunications industry make you a creator, or for that matter an inventor of telecommunications? Someone needs to give their head a shake...
That is amazing given that the Blackberry is a Canadian invention. Perhaps he has dual citizenship and he is part of the great Canadian Telecomunications inventions.
This would be hilariously funny if not for the people who don't know much about high tech and might actually believe it.
Would one of the “quality” advisers" who would handle policy on economic issues be Phil Graham who had a large role in creating the economic dissaster that faces us today?
the only thing that john mccain people does well is lie with stright faces people wake up and take a good look.
Ugh.. i'm pretty sure that 1. blackberry's are not a "miracle" and two, it was created by a canadian designer who created the SIM company. they own the rights to the blackberry.. not john mccain OR the senate commerce committe.
this is a non-story though... theres a million and one reasons NOT to vote for mccain, and this is but one..
It is nice to see that McCain takes credit for Canadian inventions.
What's next, Cirque du Soleil, Poutine or Hockey?
What a joke!
MCCain wouldn't know a Black Berry from his black heart.
Um blackberry is a Canadian company.
McCain doesn't know how to use the internet or email. And this guy is suggesting that he created the blackberry? PLEASE. This is a joke.
Now, if only he could use one!
I heard that John McCain invented the iPod too! Also, he built the first computer and then he rolled up his sleeves and said we have to get this room size thing down to the size so it can fit on a desk top or maybe even on a lap–then, he got to work on it.
What people don't actually know is that those seven houses are really super secret labs (that is why he was hesitant to answer) –in one he is working on improving consumer electronics, in another, he is developing a fusion reactor, in another he is close to the cure for the common cold...so, now, the cat is out of the bag–now you know why McCain "takes the weekends off" it is the only time he has to do all of his inventing!
Um....the Blackberry was created by a Canadian company.....his people should get a clue
Now the GOP and the Mccain is claiming they invented the blackberry we all know Mccain does not even know how to use e-mail let alone invent blackberry what a joke Mccain campagn lie, lie,lie,lie all over again they think the American people are so stupid to beleive this, for some voter they might be right, but the majority are not that stupid.
Coming from someone who hates Blackberries, especially work issued ones, this gives me less reason to vote for him
Come on guys, remember how much trouble Al Gore got into for saying he "helped invent the internet"? Let's keep that one off the books
Good jobJohn. Let your guys make this claim. Just like the pig crap you will say 48 hours from now it is not true. But hey it will go out there and people will turn away to look at the claim while the economy is being flushed down the toilet. By the way John where is your man who thinks we are all whinners? Oh by the way even though the msm won't report you campaings attempts to disenfranchise voter in mischigan because they have a foreclouser, and your phoney ballots sent to democrats, and your push polls spouting vile lies. It will come out. That is the bueaty of the modern age. You know the age you invented the blackberry.
Read, people, read! It doesn't say he created the blackberry, it says he was on the committee that helped develop telecommunications! Stop doing what the media does and jump on one comment out of context.
You got to be kidding me. McCain did not help create the blackberry. He can't even remember how many houses he owns, nor can he realize how bad our economy is....how can he create a blackberry?
HAHAHAHA!!!!
Didn't they learn from Gore's mistake?!?!
are you kidding?
JOHN MCCAIN'S ECONOMIC POLICIES WILL PUT US ON THAT BRIDGE TO NOWHERE THAT SARAH PALIN SUPPORTED!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
John McCain can't work a computer and now he invented the Blackberry? Wow!!!
Al Gore is laughing hard today.....
Great! now Obama will sieze that one line and use it over and over out of context. McCain did not create the Blackberry but he did help establish the necessary foundation for its existence in the US.
What???
I can't wait until SNL uses this in their next plot.
PEOPLE – THESE ARE SERIOUS TIMES. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO TRUST OUR COUNTRY'S FUTURE IN THE HANDS OF JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN.
HECK, THE GOP AND JOHN MCCAIN DON'T EVEN TRUST SARAH PALIN TO SPEAK HER OWN WORDS OR ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC OR THE MEDIA. HOW CAN SHE BE TRUSTED TO POSSIBLY BE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD.
THIS ISN'T A PERSONALITY CONTEST.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please tell me he's not serious!!
Blackberry? No
Dingleberry? Absolutely!
This is even more impressive when you consider that Blackberry / RIM is a Canadian company. Why is McCain inventing products for Canadian workers and not creating American jobs!
But seriously, Obama should have a commercial out with this statement before tonight's news cycle.
Americans should wake up. McCain-Palin and aAll the cronies that surround McCain-Palin are bunch of dishonest liars, they will say anything just for the Americans to beieve them. I am sorry if Americans should make a mistake of voting in McCain-Palin, what they are going to witness in the coming years will be far worse than what they are winessing now. From one dullards administration to another dullards administration. There are so many things fundamentally wrong with McCain-Palin ticket that majority of Americans should have known by now that McCain-Palin is not good for the country. Let's wake up and vote according to issues that are affecting majority of Americans and not according to race.
Stupid Blackberry comments aside, I suppose Holtz-Eakin wants to be on that “9/11-style commission” to investigate what went wrong with the economy?
So he can make sure it brushes over HIS role in deregulation that caused the whole mess.
Can he even use a BlackBerry?
OMG...you have got to be kidding. Their lies never cease to amaze me. Well folks, you are seeing the true John McCain. He might even be a bigger liar than Bush. Incredible.
Interesting especially as he mocked Obama yesterday for asking for funding for "planetariums and other foolishness".
Mccain Also Made The Hubble Telescope Out Of Old VCRs.
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie created the Blackberry you idiot, Douglas.
You Obama fans are sounding bitter. Are you clinging to your blackberries? You sound scared and rightfully so. Come November 4 you probably won't log onto CNN when Obama loses by a landslide.
They meant to say he invented electricity.
WHAT!!!!!!
Give me a break ... this man does not even know how to work a computer. Did I read something wrong or did his spokesperson say that McSame do not need to know about the economy if he have "quality" advisors.... yeah right his lobbist? Look it is okay to vote for an intelligent person that actually have the sense to tackle and fix things.... I don't want to have a beer with my President I want him to fix the mess we are in and be at the fore front in doing so... not being a front man for lobbyist.... for the sake of America...
Obama and Biden 2008!
I am a regular follower of the elections from here and I really have to say its getting silly. John McCain really seems to be desperate to look cool and hip with this. Doubt that will help him tho with the economy in the US gowing downhill. Glad that at least Obama knows what hes talking about.
The Blackberry was in fact a Canadian invention !!!!!
what a crock of bad lipstick...
he helped to create the blackberry like he says america produces more goods for the world. if that were true, we wouldn't be buying everything from china.
JOHN McCAIN INVENTED THE BLACKBERRY
Actually, he just discovered it while hunting and gathering during the Bronze Age.
He also invented fire and sliced bread.
In other news, Sarah Palin invented the John Deere manure spreader...
If all of these McCain camp lies weren't so trajic, they would be hilarious. Not only did McCain NOT help create the "Blackberry", but I doubt he even has the capacity to use one. The REAL inventor was Thomas Campana Jr. without the help of John McCain.
What a hoot! The only blackberries John McCain knows about are the ones placed on his table by the servants.
McCain is out of touch an out to lunch – blackberries for dessert anyone?
I still have not seen CNN change Florida to McCain on their electoral map. McCain is leading by about 6 – 8 points. So please CNN change your map because right now its incorrect. You were quick to change the national poll to show the two candidates both at 45% each but you still have not changed your map to show Florida is now an advantage to McCain. GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sure if the advantage was to Obama, Florida would have been changed already.BIAS CNN TO OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop the Presses! John McCain Invents the Blackberry?!?!?!?!?!?!
ha Haha HAHAHA ha
another campaign lie, this one even bigger than most.
he is old enough to have invented the fruit itself.... but definitely not bright enough to have invented the device...
Okay, this tidbit just allowed me not to listen or read another word from the Republican camp until Nov. 7th. I can't physically laugh any harder without rupturing my spleen. These guys are a joke.
i love this guy hes the best lol oh my god what 's next he invented thr wheel
or the chair
And they laughed at Gore's invention of the internet. Maybe McCain is misremembering again and it was actually the telegraph.....
More distractions!! Our economy is going down the drain and all that McCain wants to talk about is creating the Blackberry? Did he not get the memo about Wall St.? Quick someone deliver a newspaper to one of McCain houses!
Yeah...He found that blackberries taste better than prunes...
So he regulated and de-regulated the industry? Oh ok, that makes alot of sense.
Most smart people will read the full comments and not jump on the out-of-context snippet. But then there are rabid, desperate Obama fans..... who are the biggest reason people are changing their minds about The One.
NO! THE BLACKBERRY TECHNOLOGY HAD.......NOTHING...........NOTHING TO DO WITH MCCAIN!
DEAR GOD WHAT ARE THEY SAYING????????????????!!!!
CLEARLY ...........NUTS!
WAKE UP AMERICA WE CAN NOT AFFORD ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF WARPED GOP RULE!
I wonder what RIM (Research In Motion) founder Jim Balisle would say to that and the fact that RIM is A Canadian company.
Free thinkers for Obama/Biden
HAHA who are they pandering to now? Because if they are thinking of pandering to an educated, technology dependant, information technology worker like myself, they just failed. McCain didn't do SQUAT to create a Blackberry or the BIZ network. All he did was put his signature on a document, not knowing what doors it could open. I am so tired of Republicans lying that it is 9:00 AM and I already have a headache from the news. Can November 4th please come so I can vote for Obama?
Is John Mcain a Canadian?
NO you tell me...
Oh My God,
What a Lie !!!
Blackberry is a CANADIAN Company, is John McCain canadian then?
Who the heck dreamed up that concept. He may have had a hand in the creation of the Morse Code..... I'd be surprised if he actually knows how to use a telephone. Nice try repubs; but it ain't gonna fly with the intelligent, savvy, common sense voters for Obama. What will you think of next? IQ's and age about the same.
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!! WAKE UP AMERICA! THIS GUY IS A COMPLETE JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really think someone needs to tell the McCain Campaign that the Blackberry was made in Canada.
I'd be a Miracle if he knew how to use one!
Another GOP lie and distortion!
john mccain, " I created the blackberry" hahahaha good luck john
McCain invented the typewriter would be more like it.
He meant to say rotary phone.
McCain is incapable of e-mailing and can't even recall how many houses he owns or what kind of vehicle he rides around in.
If you believe this, you believe in the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny.
wow.....lol...FYI Mcain....Blackberry is made by Candian telcom giant RIM...perhaps he was a freelance engineer in Canada
Stranger than fiction... oh wait, their entire campaign IS FICTION.
What a bunch of McTools...
GIVE US A BREAK! THE MAN CANNOT EVEN USE A COMPUTER.
CHANGE THE REOCRD WILL YOU PLEASE?
He Also Created The Rocket Boosters On The Space Shuttle From Old Lawn Mower Parts!
Sen. McCain helped create the Blackberry, this from someone who doesn't even know how to turn on a computer. Sen. McCain and his crew will say and do anything to get elected. First Gov. Palin, now this. He's not a straight talker or doer, he is a man who is easily influenced and controlled by others. Outside of his time in the military, the man has NO honor or integrity at all.
You MUST be joking !!!
OBAMA / BIDEN 08
Desperate ! The economy is fundamentally sound.
Only because he is white.
He probably can't even use one...hahahaha
THIS MR MCGOO AND THE LIPSTICK PIG IS JUST WRONG GIVE ME A BREAK
AHHH just like Gore created the internet
Oh, c'mon!!! I am still undecided in my vote, but just how much skewing and manipulation will be allowed by the media?? The headline doesn't even come close to what was said. Everyone, before you write your ridiculous comments, PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, not just the headline.
The Straight Talk Express is now swirling around in circles like a broken remote controlled car.
Is this guy serious? And I guess Palin invented the iPod. Two maverickey tech savy headed right off the cliff with all of their lies.
It's pretty telling when one top McCain economic advisor thinks we are all just whinners and another one thinks that we are just plain stupid.
People stop and think and take note. 45 days to go and McCain is BS-ing his way to the WH. Today is a good day for McCain if we don’t talk about the issues and his gaffes on the economy. His handlers may sound dump and ridiculous but they remain on task of getting McCain into the WH by getting us off Obama’s message to talk about this filth.
If this wasn't a lie and McCain actually did invent the BlackBerry, I'd throw mine in the garbage.
Luckily for me, his campaign is lying (again).
McCain still uses the telegraph.
Do McCain's advisors hate him?
McCain is a joke, Palin is corrupt. Just like the Bush administration.
Enough...throw the bums out!
This IS like Al Gore's internet comments... except they're actually not based in anything resembling reality. Was McCain, like Gore, heavily involved in (as the article says) heavily promoting funding and research into Blackberries? I highly doubt it.
Hopefully this gaffe does for McCain what the internet one did for Gore (unfortunately there) since you don't even have to work to twist it and take it out of context like you did with Gore.
I remember George Bush and the Republican Party promising smaller government, less spending and more accountability. The national Dept has almost DOUBLED in the last four years. I could never believe McCain/Palin will do anything different.
I'M CALLING BULL.
Trying to change the subject John, you're an idiot.
It's the economy stupid, and we will focus like a laser on how you made such and idiotic statement yesterday. One of the worst days in stock market.
Obama/Biden 08
what next? good lord they are reaching. this is laughable but saddening at the same time. how did we get mccain as the GOP nominee?
This campaign is a joke!
One of his "spokeswoman" said he did not know how to use a computer because of the damage to his arms "as a POW." I have seen him campaigning waving his arms, switching the mic from hand to hand, etc. And he can't move his FINGERS to operate a computer? Give me a break! The man is ancient history. I am his age, plus about a year, and I do not have ANY problem operating this machine! 'Nuff said.!
Almost as amazing as taking a totally unqualified Mayor and saying she has foreign policy experience because
1.) Alaska is next to Russia
2.) She stopped for fuel in Ireland
How pathetic............
WHAT?????/?????????
Is that a pig in the sky????
Insanity ! Pathetic ! Not worthy of a candidate for President of the USA!
I was in the Air Force for 7 years. During that time, I was deployed to Saudi Arabia and Iraq, stationed in Korea and Japan, and I've had refueling stops or layovers in Taiwan, Kuwait, Egypt, Qatar, England, Ireland, Italy, and Germany. By McCain standards, I'm a foreign policy expert.
In Saudi Arabia and Iraq there were British, German, French, and Canadian forces there with us, so I'm also an expert in international relations. Additionally, at the DMZ in Korea, I looked over the fence into North Korea, and looked at the guards there, so I have experience dealing with Kom Jong Il and facing down the North Korean government. So I'm an expert on international security.
Boy, the Republicans have really cornered the market on resume padding, haven't they?
Are you serious??? I never thought I would laugh at my own party but this is just TOO FUNNY not to laugh at.
Hey McSame, what do press to send an email from my Blackberry?
Republican for Obama 08.
OMG!
See what America has reduced itself to! A bunch of clowns competing for Presidency ..
Q: Whats your foreign policy experience?
A: I can see Russia from my home and I've seen Iraq from its borders!!
Q: Whats your economic policy and how will you fix economy?
A: I will invent new things to fix economy like the one I did .. here the Blackberry!!
The Blackbery was developed in Kitchener,Ontario, Canada, by Research In Motion. (RIM).
This is a Canadian invention
Steve
CNN the more you put up some of this preposterous crap from the McCain campaign on your website, the more credibility you lose. CNN and others, remember you aided and abetted the Bush admininstration's sale of a bogus war on the American people. Now you are aiding and abetting a continuation of Bush's policies with your whole hearted support of McCain.
*Deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHA! Come on, who does he think he's kidding?
Oh: The Dow average the day Bill Clinton took office was 3,242. His Dow went up 226%.
More good commercial fodder, no? 226% to 3%.
THANK YOU... SOMEBODY TALKING SENSE.
oh and hey johnny... get an iPhone brah!
Wow, Bush used the whole Al Gore "I invented the internet" thing to hurt Gore in 2000. It worked as it became a joke and made Gore a joke.
We can only hope this "I created the Blackberry" thing works as well on McCain.
Yeah and I Invented the Cell Phone Give me a break these Liars yeah he Invented the Blackberry but he can't even send a email? The person that Invented the Blackberry can adleast send a Email i am sure let alone Know how to use a Computer. How can you invent a device with gadgets on there that you have never Used? Mccain take your Lying NO computer using self to Alaska and Hide because this is the Stupidist thing i Heard all Year! I created Heat as well Mccain since we are just Lying about things we created! Obama 08 the One in the Campaign that TELLS THE TRUE!
Pay no attention to the economic crisis behind the curtain.
Obama/Biden 08
WHAT !!!
HA! – McCain doesn't even know how to use a BlackBerry.
Let me get this straight:
Obama is to blame for Gas prices
and
McCain gets credit for creating BlackBerrys
WHOA!!
Whats next? Obama caused global warming and McCain invented the iPhone??
WOW, they hung Gore for his internet remark.
I think McCain might have invented the two cans with a string.
“Telecommunications of the United States, the premiere innovation in the past 15 years"
Excuse me for letting the facts get in the way here , but....The Blackberry was developed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) I could be mistaken but I don't think John McCain ever worked for RIM.
The blackberry was created by RESEARCH IN MOTION!!! A CANADIAN COMPANY.! It was created in the province of ontario in canada.... till today... the canadian company still has the rights to the blackberry!
Sounds like an Al-Gore-like "I invented the internet" moment... and we know how well that worked out for Al. Oh well, at least McCain can look forward to winning an Academy Award for a documentary based on some pet project of his.
He invented the blackberry like Palin becomes an expert on foreign policy because she can see Russia from parts of Alaska?
How can anybody buy this stuff?
And since he doesn't feel a need to come up with a plan for the economy - wants to leave it to advisors - guess he really doesn't think it's in such bad shape. Or could it be he simply hasn't a clue?
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the McCain Zone
The MACBERRY!!!
Wow, CNN is really stretching people's comments.
1st, McCain never said he invented the Blackberry, this is an article about and advisor that was interviewed..
2nd, his advisor didn't say McCain invented the Blackberry. His Advisor said that McCain, through the commerce commitee, helped create the telecommunications world we live in by regulation/de-regulation of the industry.
The keywords to focus on are "helped to create", unlike Al Gore who directly said, "He invented" the internet. Helped to create and invented are entirely different.
Liberal Spin.
That Blackberry comment is ridiculous. The McCain camp will do anything to lie their way to win this election. The Republicans have had 8 years and look at whats happened. War, economy, the largest national debt ever. Lets give Obama a chance. I don't think he could do any worse. McCain, right now its the economy!! Stupid!!!
Just one more lie in a long list of lies.
Yet McCain doesnt know how to use one...
This is funnier than Saturday Night Live! More like Washington Night Live! McCain can't send emails let only create the blackberry. He probably thinks the monitor is the computer and a laptop is a monitor.
In 1995 John McCain was busy working in RIM labs in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. John McCain also coined the term "crackberry" but Paul Levy gets all the credit.
He was also a POW, if you didn't know.
You're all sexist.
Its not true they are lie to you
Mccain invented the eggs for storks to carry babies also HUH?
I guess he invented mp3's and ipods to HUH?
WOW
OBAMA/BIDEN 08
Oh God Obama..give the economy comment a rest will ya? I think you need to change your message.
You hammered Hillary over and over (and over) about the Iraqi vote but your own VP voted for the war right along side Hillary. You are a joke.
Yup, just like Al Gore invented the internet. The only thing McCain's "invented" is purported knowledge in numerous areas. Give us a break!
Hello, the economy, don't change the subject.
The FUNDAMENTALS
That is hilarious. The REAL inventor is Thomas Campana Jr. without the help from John McCain. Thanks for the good laugh though McCain camp.
Pretty funny stuff.
Mike Lazaridis, the Canadian who became a billionaire by starting the RIM company and INVENTOR of Blackberry must be wondering what guy has to do to get some respect...
I love how the right wing uses values voters to achieve their ambitions but in the process contradicts them by using terms like miracle for a cell phone. I have read scripture and I have heard pastors preach rarely does man get credit for God’s miracles. Furthermore when the hell did a technology invention constitute a miracle.
Well that does it.
I have been undecided. Until now. Saying you helped create the freakin Blackberry? What the heck? I wonder what Blackberry's people will have to say about this? Maybe John McCain will get sued for libel.
This election has gotten pretty nasty on both sides, but the Republicans have been far worse in my opinion. They used to be about small government, keeping taxes low, a strong military, fighting corruption. Ronald Reagan use to say that we achieve "Peace through Strength.
Note to John McCain: That does not mean you bomb Russia just for the heck of it.
Now who are the Republicans? People who will lie, cheat and steal just to get elected. Country First my foot. Now the deficit is in the trillions, we are in a war with no end in sight, and worst of all: people who use God as a political tool.
I'm a Christian and I can tell you, God doesn't prescribe to any political party. Jesus was about helping the meek and the poor. Since when have the Republican party done that? What's worse, when people like Jerry Fallwell endorse Republican candidates, that is the publics view of Christians, radicals who can't listen to anyone. NOT TRUE, at least in mot cases. Please don't believe what Sarah Palin says.....
Sorry to get off on my soap box but these guys just make me sick. I don't want them ruining government for four more years and ignoring half the country. I don't want them injecting religion where it doesn't belong. I don't want them to become the spokesperson for my faith.
Ok, I'm done.
It wasn't just that Gore said he "took initiative in helping create the internet". That statement is factually true. It's that "journalists" like Maureen Dowd of the New York Times distorted that statement and hammered on it for an entire election cycle, all the while knowing it was factually correct.
The media, as in most of these cases, is directly responsible for the rise of George W Bush and the neocons who are allowed to come up with this garbage.
If Maureen Dowd and others focus even half of the attention to this that they gave to Gore's comments back in 2000, McCain will be in trouble.
I won't hold my breath.
These people have got to be kidding, McCain helped invent the
Blackberry. He can't even send an e mail.
MORE LIES.
I sure hope most of the people posting here stay home on Nov 4th. If this is the depth of their intellectual prowess then we are surely in trouble.
First, Gore himself made the internet comment, in McCain's case it was a surrogate. McCain is not stumping on the idea that "he created the Blackberry". The point was that while McCain served on the Commerce Committee, he worked on legislation that opened up the telecommunciations industry, such that innovations like the Blackberry could be marketed.
Second, this is another (blatant) smear angle by the Obama campaign. They know all too well how that the comment by Gore signaled the beginning of the end for his campaign and they are hoping to induce the same effect in McCain's camp. It's sad, really. MCain's aide was making a point to illustrate his experience and ability to get things done, and the Obama camp spun it into a Gore-style gaffe. It is not McCain that wants to win at all costs, it is Obama.
John McCain....Why is it this is now just coming OUT! McCain and his camp will tell anything to appease the voters and then when questioned about this to McCain he will read off a note card like his VP pick. What’s NEXT, he will be given credit for inventing the electric stove.
Come on McCain and camp, come up with something legit that McCain has done without it being a topic that is being QUESTIONED by the voters, and then all a sudden he is the SMART one....PLeaseeeeeeee
Obama/Biden 08
I think it was "Booberry".
That is too cute! He is nuts. McCain has lost his mind. We know the ads are false. We know about earmarks. We know the truth about Palin. We will note vote for him.
Obama 08
I guess having his one daughter living in Toronto Canada, that would make him Canadian! Heck, we invite everyone in anyways!
I will have to for ward this one off to my friends that work at RIM in Waterloo Ontario Canada, they will get a laugh over it!
Cute.
I thought he created the Helicopter Engines. But then, I am the average Republican voter with little knowlegde beyond issues such as guns and abortion!!
If Al Gore was dead he would be rolling in his grave.
I thought he discovered fire!
I thought McCAin invented the xbox and Game boy!
Oh that was gorge BUSH!
All the best,
Hambone Pickins
Now this is funny! I am laughing so hard right now.
And yeah, he may have been sitting on the Commerce Committee, but that doesn't mean he knew what the heck they were talking about. He was probably daydreaming about going to another war while the Blackberry was being developed.
He likes it on his toast.....blackberry jam, that is!
Hey Fred.......
POW does not equate knowledge.
McCain and Palin? All aboard the Titanic!
lol he probably can't even use a BB.
PEOPLE,
SAY NO TO FED commiting tax dollars (they call "liquidity") to the bailout of the war-profiteering loan-sharks on wall street!!!
lehman is not the only or last pigs that tried to dump their 600 billion debt on taxpayers!
there's a long line of even worse thieves twisting washington's arm!
CALL AND WRITE TO YOUR REP IN WASHINGTON NOW
before they LIQUIFY YOU to secure their immoral financial and military empire!!!!
What's that about judgement again, John? You and your campaign are so out of touch with reality in this country it is pathetic. Do us all a favor and check yourself into Shady Acres retirement home!
Sadly, the tall tales of John McCain are larger than Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. It is too bad they are not as uplifting as the folk tale. Stop playing with words, twisting the truth, and insulting our intelligence. Regulating and deregulating the industry did not create the Blackberry. Innovative, creative minds did.
McCain is truly insane!
Sending Obama to Washington to be the doting foot soldier for the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Chris Didd, Ted kennedy and others is a frightening prospect. That is why many Independents are going with experience and a provem record of reaching across the aisle to work on ALL important agendas. Now is not the time to send in a rookie with no record of achievement on the national scene and no national orinternational experience – that is just too dangerous. we need experience and history of accomplishments to initiate change - not empty words written by strangers and read off a teleprompter eloquently by a junior Senator with 1 year in DC and 1 year campaigning WAKE UP AMERICA Obma, if elected, IS ZERO HEARBEATS AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY – THAT IS TOO CLOSE
I thought he invented the club and stone-ax!
Research in Motion is a Canadian company. John McCain must be a good legislator if his policies are so good they inspire innovation globally.
Blackberry is invented by Research in Motion (RIM) which is a Canadian company. Give me a break.
The Maverick Inventor strikes again.
LOL this is amusing...
Maybe Gore and McCain can open up an internet store and put AT&T out of business
he probably invented post-its, too
Maybe McCain can use his computer skills to retrieve some of the millions of missing White House emails from around '03 and '04.
While he's at it, he might be able to restore some of Palin's missing email... But that might require McCain to login to yahoo mail.
Wake up, folks, the only way the GOP will ever reform is if we vote them out of office in November.
BLACKBERRY OR McSAME-CLUELESS-BERRY?
WHICH ONE DID HE CREATE?
I'm pretty sure that RIM (actual inventor of the Blackberry) is a Canadian company and that Blackberries are manufactured in Canada, Mexico, and Hungary. What happened to "Country First"?
Addressing the nation’s economic crisis, Holtz-Eakin told reporters traveling with the campaign “there’s no magic solution. And I don’t think that it’s at this moment imperative to write down exactly what the plan has to be.” He also said a president isn’t someone who needs to be heavily involved in policy specifics, which should be handled by “quality” advisers,
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By far, the most important and frightening statement made this political season.
The president is not heavily involved in policy specifics... Sound like anyone we know?
LOL!!!!!LMAO!!!!!
It's not important to have sense to run a nation.... so vote McCain (the man who created the Blackberry)
If you know he is lying, why do you intend to vote for this incompetent liar? Go and vote for the right guy who cares and cant improve the economy. Vote Obama. Dont bother about these lies anymore.
RIM (Blackberry company) is Canadian. McCain spokemen can't even get their country right when trying to defend McCain. Just the sort of people we need running our country (into the ground).
McCain: 'Today, we are all Georgians..err Canadians!!'
Seriously???? bwahahaha... I cant even believe that people still vote republican... I can understand if your old, selfish and white and like the tax benefits... or have an abundant affection for unwanted fetuses.... But what other reason is there? They are horrible with the economy, war, domestic issues.....etc...
If you make under $500,000 a year and vote republican, you are an idiot.
The only thing that Senator McCain has created is confusion.,,mostly in his own mind. Before he discovered Sarah,,,,it was Joe lieberman, the individual who on more than one occasion had to correct something McCain had said. McCain is truly the president i want answering the phone at three o'clock in the morning. If anyone believes the afore mentioned statement,,,,,,,i myself will build you a bridge in Alaska,,,,,,straight to Sarah's home.
I can't believe this. This is the most hilarious thing I've heard in a long time. Thanks for replacing Comedy Central, McCain Campaign! I mean seriously, its just not feasible that a man who can barely work a computer would even have an inkling of how to expand a telecommunications market, much less that of the crackberry.
Wow, I thought he didn't know how to even send an email.
Republican voting for Obama/Biden 08
McCain and Palin are desperately trying to stay away from the issues, because the issues will sink their little boat. It would be hilarious to see McCain try and use a Blackberry, I hope some interviewer like Gibson whips it out and lets him demonstrate his visionary technological genius.
The US housing market is plunging, it may take the world economy down with it...McCain has no idea what to do with this situation. So he's talking about Blackberries. It's so absurd and desperate, he just hopes that he can put the economic genie back in the bottle, but he doesn't stand much more of a chance of doing that than he does of figuring out what the heck all the buzz about the internet really is all about.
So a guy who probably thinks phones still have rotary dials invented the Blackberry? What's next - He has beachfront property for sale in Arizona? Whatever McCain and his people are on, it's some good stuff.
How many of us realize that getting older will cause a loss of faculties? John McCain (I'm sure) is a nice guy but please...this is getting pathetic.
He also seems to suffer from some untreated PTSD. What is sad is it appears its catchy because his entire staff are showing symptoms.
America.....let's not send a very bad message to the world that we will elect someone who is not only divorced from lives of americans, but divorced from reality. But his back-up is a Beauty Queen / Hockey Mom??? Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Oh boy
do we need further proof that Sen. McCain has completely lost his bearings. It seems he out does himself every day.
This HAS to be a joke. McAlzheimer's can't even send an email or get on the internet by himself!!! Maybe Palin's buddy, Ted Steven's is right, "THE TUBES ARE ALL STUFFED UP!!!"
Give me a break!!!
Obama create the concept of community,,,so he could organize it to fill in his resume.
Unfortunately, this community and it's inhabitants have not been found.
McCain created the Blackberry, just like Gore created the internet. These guys are just a bit too full of themselves!
OK guys here is the news straight from the mouth of Steve JOBS, Steve says that McCain was the guy who came over to Cupertino and designed the iPod and the iPhone. Two thumbs up and well Blackberry he just mispoke about it. It is all about that golden years.
Oh yeah, let's not talk about what John said yesterday, or the fact that he was on all the nets trying to do damage control because of his stupid statement yesterday.
Let's CHANGE the subject and talk about "Blackberry". Yes, that will do the trick. We want to control the news cycle. Talking about John saying the "fundamentals are strong" is not good for our lying, low-life campaign.
So pay no attention to that economic crisis behind the curtains, Americans. Just keep talking about how John designed the blackberry.
Obama/Biden 08
Because we are smarter than 5th graders and John.
Mr MaGoo is clueless.
We need a technology driven Green revolution in this country to save it and the planet and this guy doesnt know squat about tech.
Drill baby drill is so appropriate for dinosaurs like the GOP.
Old or new. Status quo or change. Bridge to the future, or bridge to the 19thy century.
Cmon America, dont go for the security blanket of an easy soundbite and maverick-speak. Vote with your head and an eye to the future. Dont let Mr MaGoo and Palin take you back to a disaterous past.
Vote Obama/Biden
OBAMA=MOSES-–MCCAIN=JOHN THE BAPTIST
AMERICA VOTES IN BLACK AND WHITE!
I wonder if Faux News will make as big a deal over this gaffe as their lie that Al Gore claimed he invented the internet? What am I saying... of course, they will NOT.
126 days till the end of the Bush administration.
McCain will be another of the worst economic disaster this country has ever seen if he becomes president. People need to take off the Republican or Democrat blinders and listen to the issues. McCain doesn't know anything about economics and is too old to play catchup now, he just wants to be president and that's it.
More LIES. No more McCain.
Man, you liberals need to learn to take a joke.
McCain laughed when he was told of the statement... i seriously doubt mccain has any fantasies about him "inventing" the blackberry.
get a sense of humor, you idiots.
I cannot believe the level of ignorance in the comments posted here.
Nowhere did the article state that McCain "invented" the Blackberry.
It clearly states that legislation McCain worked on made it possible for devices like the Blackberry, become a reality.
Was it a bit exaggerated? Sure, but tell me something in politics that isn't.
Blame the writers of the article for the sensational headline.
Innuendo is a great tool when it comes to writing trash.
PEOPLE,
SAY NO TO FED commiting tax dollars (in they call "liquidity") to bailout the war-profiteering loan-sharks on wall street!!!
lehman is not the only or last pigs that tried to dump their 600 billion debt on taxpayers!
there's a long line of much worse and bigger thieves twisting washington's arm!
CALL AND WRITE TO YOUR REP IN WASHINGTON NOW
before they LIQUIFY YOU to secure their immoral financial and military empire!!!!
and take a look at your portfolio: you hard earn money invested in these crooks are already worth nothing!
DO NOT THROW GOOD TAX MONEY BEHIND THE BAD MONEY that has already evaporated!
well, the wealth you thought you had made by investing in this scam
NEVER EXISTED in the first place.
invest in substance, such as
land and building, and
pay off your mortgage asap!
and most of all, DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM CORPORATES,
unless your life depends on it!
liana....
McCain is responsible for his advisor's comments!
out of touch.... period.
Where are you, McCain supporters? The polls say you are there, but I haven't met any of you yet!
Ahh.....no wonder users refer to the devices as "crack berries". You must be on "crack" to believe this statement from the campaign is true.
No way..no how....no Palin Administration.
Enough is enough!
Obama/Biden 08
McCain voted for the Blackberry...
The thing is, he thought he was ordering dessert.
like others have said, the blackberry was developed in Canada, and seriously didn't McCain say he didn't know how to send an email anyway? it was lame when gore said he invented the internet and for john mccain to claim something as ridiculous is just plain nuts.
The thing is, Al Gore actually WAS involved with the internet while it was in it's infancy. But, this is really a non-story compared to Ms. Palin's dodging the truth about Troopergate. After eight years of this, we need more? The only explanation is, we must be a society of masochists.
...and Al Gore created the Internet, right?
Baldwin/Castle 08!
I can't believe the way CNN is distorting the facts on this one, including the headline. Especially the headline, since that is what drew me and no doubt others into this silly, sensational nothing of a story. I'm a member of the media, and I write headlines every day. Obviously, I labor more over whether what I write is true and accurate and fair than CNN, the home to the No Bias, No Bull mantra that proves more comical every day. Good luck staying out of courts with careless work like that, fellas. (And I use the word fellas, b/c of all the Palin bashing out there; surely women who have had to claw and fight and scratch and hiss their way to any sort of higher ground in this business environment would not turn on one of their own, would they?) Oh, I forgot about Campbell Brown. There goes that.
Excuse me? I heard he has trouble with email!
Uh, so why have a president when we can just have a White House full of advisers and lobbyists?
With John McCain that is what we'll have–just advisers and lobbyists making decisions for the President. Face facts, I don't trust my grandfather to drive my car, why would I trust him with the future of me and my children?
This has to stop. Americans, you need to wake up! Obama is our only hope at this point...and no, he didn't invent blackberries!
Once again, the McCain campaign conterdicts itself by saying
"...And I don’t think that it’s at this moment imperative to write down exactly what the plan has to be.” He also said a president isn’t someone who needs to be heavily involved in policy specifics"
Isn't this exactly what McCain and his advisors have been saying about Barack Obama...that's he is just an "empty suit", "all rhetoric", "no solutions"
oh yea.. his WIFE/IN-LAWS have a distributorship deal also !!!!
Swwet Jesus, another miracle by McCain. Is this one like when he said he helped create the laws on Wall Street, and now he can fix them, just like he knows where Bin laden is and how to get him, but won't unless he is elected. Dear God, America !! WAKE UP!!
Jesus! The way I understand it is that he helped make it possible for it to be created. And who cares. What does this have to do with anything? Lets report on real issues. What is he going to do about the economy and Wall Street? How will he reform politics and create transparency with a VP who is starting to look less like Tina Fey and more like Dick Cheney, everyday?
People please. McCain did in fact invent the Blackberry in 12,000 BC combining the raspberry and and the extinct petroleum berry.
And Obama-philes are still wondering what Obama has done for the past 20 years.
John McCain, "I've heard of the internets".
LOL!
The only bonehead is McCain saying our economy is strong.
Thanks, but no thanks George McCain! I know the facts and it was actually created in Wasilla, Alaska (population 5)
this guy is a joke!
Wow.
Gore NEVER said the "I invented the internet" thing that people so widely believed.
Now a McCain guy actually says that he helped create the blackberry??
What does this guy need to do to lose his lead in the polls, start eating babies?
He meant fruits people..fruits..
In defense of typewriter : much too complex for John McCain!
That old fool cannot use the internet but he invented the Blackberry ? Good, why doesn't he recycle himself in the private business selling them ?
He Also Made The Hubble Telescope Out Of Old VCRs!
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 deregulated the financial system by opening up competition among banks, securities and insurance companies and allowed commercial and investment banks to merge. Look it up.
Oh MY GOD! This is a guy still learning how to get on the web. Of course he did not. Next thing you know he will claim he helped discover the New World Of course he and Chris C. are probably pretty close to the same age. This guy needs a real lesson in TRUTH!
Sending Obama to Washington to be the doting foot soldier for the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Chris DOdd, Ted kennedy and others is a frightening prospect. That is why many Independents are going with experience and a provem record of reaching across the aisle to work on ALL important agendas. Now is not the time to send in a rookie with no record of achievement on the national scene and no national or international experience – that is just too dangerous. We need experience and A PROVEN TRACK RECORD of accomplishments to initiate change — not empty words written by unnamed strangers and read off a teleprompter eloquently by a junior Senator with 1 year in DC and 1 year campaigning WAKE UP AMERICA Obama, if elected, IS ZERO HEARBEATS AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY – THAT IS TOO CLOSE
That can create very funny ads.
The creator of the blackbery that does not know how to email!
This is right up there in the pantheon of stupid statements from McLame and his campaign. Others include Palin's military qualification from being CIC of the Alaska National Guard, her foreign policy qualification beause Alaska is near Russia, and Obama not going to town hall meetings with McSame being the cause of the downward spiral into sleaze by the McShame campaign, not to mention Failin saying, "Thanks but no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere. BTW, she never did explain what the "no thanks" part was, since she kept the money.
Wow. I'm starting my timer to see how long it takes for Factcheck.org to completely and utterly obliterate this nonsense.
Best laugh I've had all day. The McCain campaign deserves a Hasty Pudding Award for this one.
we don't need more jokes. America can not afford four more years.
vote Obama/Biden and lets get America working again. We are just seeing the beginning of the end. If banks are not sound then the fundamentals of the economy are not sound. The Fed's solution to the banking crisis brought on by a lack of over sight and too much deregulation is to loosen the restriction on lending. How can pouring gas on the fire make it better? Mcsame's policies are more Bush policies. Mcsame says he went against his party but he neglects to say hat Obama went against Mcsame's party too! They needed to be gone against even more.
I hear nothing but mean spirited remarks from the Obama campaign and it is getting O-L-D! Obama is looking like more of the same old tired politics!
I'll just say anyting or doing anything JUST to hold the hightest office in this land. This is straight UP a shame!
Obama/Biden 08
As an employee of a telcom company that has lost billions over the last 8 years, I can say it was not done correctly. Even if we have the technology, the companies are not making any money at it.
Remember the internet and telcom bubble busrt of 2000???? A great accomplishment John.
BTW – the Blackberry was created by a company in Canada, Research In Motion (RIM), which is involved with a slew of copyright infringments.
Obama Action Wire Team:
At LEAST McCain blames BOTH Democrats and Republicans for the failure in Washington...Obama and Biden? Well they blame John McCain!
Let's see....
Chris Dodd-Dem...Chairman of Banking committee...think HE was asleep at the wheel? Yep...
Obama-Dem...Chairman of the SubCommittee that controls war in Afghanistan...think HE was asleep at the wheel? Yep.
Nancy Pelosi Dem–Speaker of the House...in line for President...10 bills were written in the past two years, and 190 fluff stuff...think she was asleept at the wheel? Yep.
Charlie Hagel–Dem–Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
He is writing tax laws for us while NOT paying his own...
As a Democrat, I am disgusted with the past two years of broken promises by Democratic Leaders. I agree that corruption has to be swept right out of the House and Senate.
Obama has "CHANGED" his position on just about everything to the point I no longer trust him. So much for fighting the Democratic leaders...he is in bed with them.
I find it odd that he fought Clinton so hard...tried so hard to smear her personally...could it be because she ACTUALLY has pissed off Democratic Leaders by bucking them on issues?
At least Palin DOES have a record of bucking her own party, as DOES John McCain. McCain has NEVER taken an earmark. NEVER.
I am not against earmarks, but am against earmarks that are unwise. I understand states need part of the money to run, and help with infastructure. BUT the truth is Democrats have gotten too Greedy right along with Republicans.
McCain/Palin 08 CLINTON 2012
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 deregulated the financial system by opening up competition among banks, securities and insurance companies and allowed commercial and investment banks to merge.
John McCain voted for this bill along with the entire Republican Senate. Phil Gramm indroduced this bill was John McCain’s top economic advisor before he was forced to resign but still gives McCain economic advice to this day.
John McCain has a direct responsibility in the financial crisis we are in today. McCain has supported the very philosophy and mentality that has caused the economy we are facing today. Is that what you want? Another 4 years of this? If you do then vote for McCain.
Wow! and his deputy can see Russia from her tanning bed, hence able to duel with the big bad boys out East.
The guy does not know how many houses he owns, lives off his wifes money (gold digger) has done nothing for the State of Arizona.
Was a crook in the Keating 5 and got the Gov. to take the fall for the team.
America thses are the peole that gave you this economy. Congress voted to make your house an ATM machine. Free money just live in your house for 2 years take out up to 500,000 no taxes.
So Business turned it into a 1849 gold rush with no rules. Everyone that was a crook is blaming everyone else.
You gave crap loans and sold them as good loans and it was all a scam, now everyone is going how did this happen?
Give me a break this guy and Greenspan and Bush created it.
And the McCain said let there be Blackberry! and it happened
I guess thats the only way he could have done it. lol I can't believe how his campaign is thinking. And yea if he had created Blackberry, then i created IPOD. This should be true, shouldn't it?
And John MCCain created the lie !!! Just pathetic
Let's have a retirement party for John McCain, maybe then he will get the idea that it is time to go home. If he can figure out which one.
Come on. The Gore-said-he-invented-the-Internet thing was ridiculous and so is this.
Maybe he and Gore can get together and invent some new technology device that will lift us all up from the economic disaster we're all feeling.
what has gone to this campaign.
more LIES.
MORE SCANDALS AROUND MCBUSH.
I SAY, "BOYCOT CINDY'S BEER'.
MCBUSH WILL REALIZE THAT THE ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBALS AND THAT HE DIDN'T CREATE THE BLACKBERRY.
OBAMA 08
John McCain has gone from an honorable, admired, respected hero and role model to a sad, bitter, lying, self-absorbed, dersperate old man.
How very, very sad!
I'm an Independant. I was concerned about both Obama's youth and McCain's age, but now I'm beginning to wonder if McCain is suffering the effects of post-traumatic stress. It's kinder than saying he's showing signs of senility.
This is getting ridiculous. Everything someone says is REALLY being taken too literally. This should not even be reported.
Yet another reason why the McCain campaign is a complete disaster. Ship of fools. And all the fools who follow will go down with the ship.
Yeah right!
The president of the USA had better be well versed in economics of he will be eaten alive by special interests. You can't tell me that special interests would not be on his trusted commission. As far as 911 all the commission has done is take away some freedoms as well as make it a nightmare to travel anywhere. Can you imagine if someone like that was in charge of the economy. Grab the women and children and hold on to your money. It is going to be a bumpy ride!!!!!!
It's quite obvious McCain is oblivious to how his campaign is being run and is giving carte blanche to what is communicated in between his naps. There must be some serious concern among the "managers".
NO WAY, NO HOW , NO MCPITBULL!!!
Considering how old McCain acts and talks at times,,,,,,,,,,perhaps he was also the inventor of the WHEEL,,,,,,,,,,Americans need to wake up before McCain has the power to invent the THIRD WORLD WAR,,,,,I HAVE NO DOUBTS THAT HE COULD TO THIS. Undoubtedly the Beauty queen from Alaska would help in this endeavour,,,,,,,Go Sarah
Most Americans don't know what a BlackBerry is.
So, lots of luck trying to snowball this like the Gore-internet thing.
Does McCain even know where Canada is? Research In Motion is a CANADIAN FIRM.... AND HAS BEEN DEVELOPING IT'S PRODUCTS FOR OVER 20 YEARS....
Just goes to show the arrogance of some Americans...
Now... now - he probably just misspoke - he meant to say he invented blueberries
WOW...........I guess his new name should be Bill McGates.
McCain gets more and more pathethic everyday.
...and why cant McOld ever be seen without Palin anymore? Because he can not get more than 500 people to come listen to his ramblings.
After all of Palins skeletons come out all those crowds will also evaporate.
McCain didn't have anything to do with the Blackberry. It was invented by Mike Lazaridis of Research in Motion in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Incidentally, Mike Lazaridis is the CEO of the company and the headquarters is still in Waterloo. McCain should try lying about something that is a little more believable, like he was influential in America's transition from the horse and buggy to the automobile in the early twentieth century.
Pretty good response by the McCain camp, but Holtz-Eakin is not a "staffer," he's the senior domestic policy advisor. Quite a difference.
McCAIN HAS FINALLY JUMPED THE SHARK.
The only thing he helped in regards to the blackberry, is out sourcing it's production.
Flip it over and see where it's made, CHINA....
Thanks Johnny, your job security for americans is GREAT (NOT).
Next on his list of to do: Out source the government to Communist Rule.
You know these smear tactics are not going to work on either one supporter base. Democrats who want to vote for Obama, they will vote for him not matter what, even thought it gets proven that he tried to renegotiate troop withdrawal till after elections, on other side republicans who will vote for McCain will vote for him no matter what even he it gets disproven that he has invented BlackBerry and he has 5 houses.
Question is whos supporters are more motivated to wait in lines in cold mornings of November.
All these adds in both sides do is polarize the already polarized camps of supporters.
I think I will cut it here.
No, John doesn't know very much about the economy.
But even more important than that–he cheated on his wife, and left his kids. I can't get over that. Why? Because he was in his 40's (not unlike Bill Clinton). He was in his 40's and Cindy Lou was 25. John was in his 40's and after coming home a "hero", he left his wife and kids. Yeah, tell the first 3 children he abandoned what a hero dad really was.
His daughter (by Cindy Lou) wrote a book about how wonderful her dad is. I said to my husband, I guess she would think he was wonderful; he didn't abandon her–and her mother's money.
John is a snake and all this talk about "blackberry" is just another shiny metal object to change the subject from the fact that he doesn't get the economy. He never did, and he never will.
It's your turn to speak up America, send him back to his many mansions.
McCain meant the blackberry muffin.. oops.. blueberry muffin
Do the republican think that the rest of the nation is as stupid as they are, and will believe everything they put out there? give me and my brain some credit, will they?
So America is suffering economic faliures and all the McCain camp can do is make jokes about it???
...And I invented electricty!
This is too pathetic to be amusing.
John McCain has gone from an honroable, respected hero and role model to an angry, bitter, twisted old, man.
McLobbyist should take his Blackberry, the jam, and go home!
His gimmick,Palin, should leave too!
And Al Gore invented the internet, so what?
Sean Whitworth dixy "I thought he created the wheel?"
Actually he discovered the fire and owns the patented for the "smoke signals" code. The fundations of modern telecomunications.
ha ha
BTW, McCain has trouble using a keyboard because of his war injuries.
But, you people already know that. You're just desperate. You should be.
Vote smart this November. Vote good judgment. If you say that our economy is good now, you are an elitist and you do not know our struggle to put food on our bellies and gas in our cars. John McCain that elitist think the economy is good and has no plan to help us. He wants more wars, more tax cut for big corporate that ship our jobs oversees. Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania I know that your economies are hurting and you must vote smart and vote someone who understands your economics’ struggles. It is not time to support someone who does not understand the economy, it is time to take our country back and get our respect back around the world. Vote Democratic this November if you are a true American who put America first. We need change in Washington and the Democratic Party has that change for us this November.
Did he invent the internet too?
He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry. This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer," McDonald said.
he has so many other things to claim "credit" for the invention of the blackberry is nothing
fundamentals of the economy are strong
winning the war in Iraq
strong financial markets
oil independence thru drilling
affordabe heathcare for everyone with insurance
fix social security thru private accounts and market investments
balance the budget thru more tax cuts to the wealthy
Obama's campaign intentionally twists everything McCain's campaign says. McCain's people didn't say he invented the blackberry, they said he helped create it. He did so by crafting the legislation that helps make telecommunications possible. Obama must be getting really desperate.
Why not? After all, Al Gore claimed credit for inventing the Internet.
hahahahahaha YEAH, OKAY, sit down old man.
When will Palin issue a statement claiming that she discovered electricity?
DESPERATE, DESPERATE PEOPLE!
The american people are so sound bite driven that that main part of this article is about the economy and all they write about is the blackberry. This shows how stupid the public really is.
Ugh, attack him on this.
Does John McCain say anything credible anymore?
This is akin to me going to see a band at a small club and listening to their songs and really liking them. Then, a few years later, the same band is filling up stadiums and having hit after hit. Because I went to see them in the earlier days, I proclaim loudly, “I discovered the band!” In other words, this is just flimsy rationale from a flummoxed and clueless campaign.
TESAP:SAVANNAH, GA your comment was just too funny! Completely true and very funny!
It's probably just another "lie", mcsame is sooooooooo good at telling them along with his cheney clone v.p. nominee, the nasty, uninformed palin! What a (bad) joke these two are, don't let it be a joke on our country people! WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!!!!!
How about this???
John Mccain invented Windows Operating System that is used by 75% of all Personal Computers around the Globe!!!!!!!!
I don't know what article everyone here has read, but the one I read didn't say that McCain claimed invention of the Blackberry. It said that as a member of the commerce committee he put in legslation that led to the network implementation that makes the Blackberry possible.
You guys are really being obtuse on this one!
"McCain claimed he invented the Blackberry." I'd better hear that phrase exactly as much as I heard the phrase that Al gore claimed he invented the Internet. It's just as true.
How is a product that is the result of the telecommunications technology that McCain helped fund from his time on the Senate Commerce Committee, deemed as such a laughable concept? Any educated individual is well aware of the point that the staffer was attempting to make here, albeit not very eloquently. The majority who have expressed disdain over this comment are reading it as a direct quote from McCain himself, which is not the case.
Blackberry is a Canadian Invention. As a Canadian I take offence to John McCain trying to take credit. Maybe he thinks so little of his fellow citizens that he thinks they would not know this.
The lies that comes out of that campaign has everyone in Canada and other countries over the world just laughing at them. What is really scary is that my Americian neighbours that I respect so much is actually falling for it. Please vote on the issues!!!
Whoa! Hold on there! Is this for real? The McSame camp says:
"a president isn’t someone who needs to be heavily involved in policy specifics, which should be handled by “quality” advisers." This is one of the most scary things they've said in recent days...must be because McSame isn't capable of handing anything specific.
McCain's campaign is nearly as funny as the Colbert Report, sharing the same concept, self-parody.
Yes, the Blackberry is a Canadian invention. As far I know, Senator McCain is not a Canadian citizen. Gramps had a brain cramp. Thank you
We need to focus on ISSUES that will directly involve solving the problems with our economy and the security of our Nation, not which party is better or did worse. IT'S not the PARTY STUPID, IT'S THE LEADER. We are in a campaign to elect a NEW leader. What's past is past. Let's move on. Our Nation has a history of being able to turn adversity into CHANGE. We need to focus on the CHANGES we can LIVE with, not what the "talking heads" are pushing. They have their own agenda and that is to make MONEY. They are doing that by RATINGS. The more they push their candidate down your throats the more they will make. You will pay for this. We need a LEADER we can trust to have OUR interests at heart, and those of this country . We NEDD A PROUD AMERICAN WHO WILL STAND UP FOR OUR RIGHTS, VALUES, SECURITY, and WHAT'S BEST FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. We need someone who will "clean house" NOW.
John McCain '08
Mon Dieu...
That is for to laugh...
Will someone take this idiotic old fool back to his room?
And lock the door next time....
The abacus maybe
The Blackberry- I don't think so
and
Steve from Ithaca, NY September 16th, 2008 11:37 am ET
Show me how that's out of context.
Check out Snopes
Okay, a man who doesn't know how to email, helped to create the Blackberry? Is this April Fool's Day?
How silly is this silly season going to get?
I'm sticking with Barack, at least he's sane.
Obama/Biden 08
Wait, what? Really? As noted, remember the ridicule Al Gore faced? Except that he ACTUALLY did have a hand in working with the technology that fostered the Internet (not inventing the Internet, as he never said but was eviscerated for)? Will those same people come after McCain? I doubt McCain can use a push-button telephone, let alone email or a BlackBerry. When the HELL is someone besides Chris Matthews or Huffington Post going to rip these LIES apart piece by piece? Why isn't anyone paying attention?
This self-admitted IT illiterate man who cannot even send or receive an email helped create the Blackberry? Please spare us the nonsense!
Wait a second. Hold on, hold on:
"Did that guy really just say "He both regulated and de-regulated the industry.”
Ummmmmmm....that's a neat trick. So there's no magic solution to the economy, but McCain can simultaneously do two mutually exclusive things? He's hired. everyone else get out of the Government. McCain is going to just do it all. We don't need you. LOL
So the man can't use a computer or send an email but he invented the blackberry? Hilarious.
McCain invented the blackberry...great stuff.
Guys come on......I almost had to clean my cubicle.......The remarks were even funnier than the article I'm just surprised that he even knows what a blackberry is............................
NOT!!!!!!!!!!! GIFTTY September 16th, 2008 11:23 am ET
Go Obama/BIden 08
HILLARY – 12
PALIN 025 by then our kids will know she is about war against Russia, they will see she still slacks EXP.
GIFTY – 025 Still crying and prejudice.
Lue Dobbs said that McCain cant type owing to his injuries during his time of being a POW. But he can write....!!!! Honestly this kind of journalists can learn a ton from Lohan and Pamela Andersaon. Seriously, read their comments and blogs to understand how dumb you are.
McCain discoveries:
Dinosaurs (rode one to school daily)
Fire (burned himself with cigarette lighter as child)
Gravity (fell off the dinosaur one day)
Electricity (I know, I was shocked as you)
Actually Invented the automobile, the internal combustion engine, first airplane.
But! He had nothing to do with the Blackberry®! He picked some blackberries for a pie as a child!
Geez, get the facts straight!
After over half a century since the discovery of computer, the Republican nominee, John McCain, still don't know how to use a computer. The question is: where's the brain in the head?
Or should this be a case of the dullest brain ruling the mightiest nation in the world?
The further down we go, the further other countries like China laugh at us.
Be wise, Americans!!!
My son went to the same university as Jim Basille in Waterloo Ontario where the RIM company is located. Further to this Jim is a native of Peterborough Ontario where I live.
In the final analysis both my son's and Jim's expertise in computers would make John McCain look like a total moron. This claim is not only moronic but is an insult to the intelligence and educational level these people achieved through their own initiatives and not achieved through family connections or inheritances.
I just can't believe the American public can swallow so many lies these out of touch and immoral spread on a daily basis. Haven't you people had enough of this garbage over the past 8 years?
I think that any man that goes to war invading some other poor country, falls in trap and was imprisoned is a failure. Oh, I thought we last war in Vietnam, and guess who was in it Mr. McCain, same is going to be for our economy and this election. I feel sorry for the poor guy, or should i say Rich Guy. I think he is a new era Rambo to Nowhere. Once you loose your job, don't blame Bush for it. He already admitted to his poor presidency ratings. McCain said, "economy is strong", well we all saw that with Katrina, Gustav, and Ike. Not only that we are doing wrong to crash economy, even God hates us. American worker is strong and not just American, but any other worker who is willing to enrich his life. Well is not so much like that anymore. I saw it this week, there was less traffic on interstate like the half world just died. Is it that people lost their jobs or that people just can not afford $5 dollars for the gallon of gas. McCain or should i say McBlame will fail just as same he failed in Vietnam, where is He taking us "To Failure", that's where or I guess there is The Light on the other side of Palin's Bridge to Nowhere.
Right, and Sarah Palin is the CEO of PETA... Keep 'em coming folks, keep 'em coming...
If Al Gore can create the Internet, well ....
This blog is for far left loonies to feel important that someone is listening and think they care-
I saw on one of these that a African American stated -I have never been polled-well of course not-tHe numbers are factored @ over 90% will be for Obama-
But I am so glad that the Obama campaign keeps hammering McCain on his age-
THis is beautiful–The most loyal voting block is the over 65 or retired-
You can never replace ignorance–
Thanks Obama Campaign for ensuring your demise-
Seems like this was more of an effort to convince people McCain knows what a Blackberry device IS than an effort to position him as a legislative leader. Somehow, it falls flat though. Like, if the guy can't work e-mail, he probably can't manage to sync these puppies either. Pathetic, really. Kind of like his entire campaign, his party, its platform, and his oh-so-earnest talk about how he's the same guy he was in 2000. Right. McCain lies.
This is how bad my party's nominee has become. I especially love the line about "he helped regulate that industry, and then de-regulate it".
Idiots. Voting for my party in this cycle just proves how stupid people can be. Seriously people, get a clue.
I think the american people can recognize a "Boneheaded Joke" when they see one......
You go McCain! AZ's got your back!
A VOTE FOR OBAMA= A VOTE FOR TRAGEDY!
MCCAIN/PALIN '08!
It's almost like the Repub's live in a dream world. For real! I still think that when you are applying for the job of President of the US, you need a psychological screening and MRIs of the brain. I don't care if you're a Demo or Repub. That should be required. Because Bush is a bobble-head nut case and McCain is obivously senile.
"How low can you get, Getlow?"
–from the Broadway musical, "Purlie Victorious"
Even the Japanese knew when it was time to surrender,give it up John and go home,your credibility has expired.
Too Funny...........Does McCain know what a Blackberry is?
This is a reach LOL
Bottom line, either take what you have now for the next 4 years or turn and try to receive something new and better. This is simple people! It's not hard if you are running out of money and/or losing your home or job then vote for change (Obama). If you are fine with suffering, if you think you can leave under Bush policies for another 4 years, and if you think our country and soldiers can stand 8 more years of wars then vote (McCain). It can't get any simplier
All right, people, you can now replace the "Al Gore invented the internet" joke with "McCain created the Blackberry."
Obama/Biden 08
Obviously you Obama fans don't read the whole article. It was a joke and perhaps to get you blogging off on something stupid so you will sound stupid for not reading it. McCain laughed when he heard this so he knows what they are up to. It's called "Diversion" and you are falling for it. The more you put him down the more people think twice about Obama.
By the way–
THe Blackberry incident was laughed at by McCain-
You are grasping at anything–
Powerful information !!!!!! .................exactly the type of information Obama should be very busy showing to Americans...!!!
"... the Dow lost 500+ points to close at 10,917. More trouble is still expected ...
On the day GW Bush took office, the Dow was 10,578. Wow! Meaning thath in 8 years of Republicans administration there was a 3.1% gain — in 8 long years!
If the Dow today has another day like yesterday, we will actually be below where we were the day Bush took office!!!!
On the other hand, the Dow average the day Bill Clinton took office was 3,242. The Dow thus went up 226%! in 8 years of Democratic administration!!!!!!
Invent what? This is a man who doesn't know how to use internet, or e-mail?.....LOL...LOL ....McDumb -the great inventor?
Really!!! Does he know how to use one!! What is he doing?
that's funny. the guy who does not know how to send emails and were able to invent blackberry..
"Off with you, you have no power here"
–Glinda the good witch to the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz"
The BlackBerry is not a miracle! A miracle would be something like McCain-Palin actually talking about real issues, or helping those that have lost jobs and homes in record numbers due to these current policies get back on their feet! Oh wait, the economy is sound!
Obama/Biden 08 PERIOD!
Why is this hard to believe? He's certainly old enough to have invented blackberries. Although I picture him as more of a plum/prune guy.
Palin has more experience than Obama September 16th, 2008 9:03 am ET
Sen. Obama and Biden are part of congress and the DEms have been in control for 6 years. Seems like they both are part of the problem.
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SEE THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A LOW INFORMATION VOTER. THE DEMOCRATES HAVE ONLY HAD CONTROL OF THE CONGRESS FOR LESS THAN 2 YEARS. DUMMY!
So McCain's senior aide, Matt McDonald, says this is the "joke of a boneheaded staffer"... that "staffer" is... wait for it... McCain's very own senior domestic policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin! The whole McCain campaign is one big boneheaded joke!
No, no, no..
McCain had to have discovered fire..
So McCain's senior domestic policy advisor doesn't believe the president should actually have a plan before taking office or be much involved in planning once he's in.
And when said advisor realizes how lame that actually sounds, he cracks a joke about McCain inventing the BlackBerry.
How can a man who sat on the Commerce Committee "Not really know much about the economy"? What was he doing in the committee? Sleeping?
Thank Heaven we have a choice–Obama '08!
If Obama doesn't believe that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, he is truly more scary than I had believed he was.
Even if the neophyte didn't believe it, why in the world would he say such a thing when people are already jittery about their economic security?
What I have really found amusing out of all of this is the attack that the
Democratic candidates have levied on Senator McCain for his comment that the fundamentals of our economy remain strong. The amusing part to me about this is how Senator Obama and his campaign staff can brag about raising $66 million during the month of August, then claim the economy is hurting. If the American people are in such dire straits, why is that they can afford to give $66 million dollars a man running for president. If he truly cared about the economy shouldn't he have taken the public financing and not
relied on the poor American worker's money?
After all, Senator Obama is opposed to special interests contributing to campaigns, isn't he?
I also read that Barbara Streisand is holding a $31 thousand a plate fundraiser for Senator Obama this evening. How, can an economy in dire straits support such a lavish affair?
I'm sure this claim will come as a big surprise to Research in Motion, the Canadian company that, until now, was considered the inventor of the Blackberry.
The strong fundamentals of this economy helped create the Blackberry.
Wow, I put 2 dumb statements together to make a gigantically stupid one.
Read the quote and not the headline. The quote actually says that he was on the committee responsible for promoting the rise of telecommunications...not that he created the blackberry.
And the dems have created the Black Barry, they have a candidate with overblown credentials, who even in his on memoirs talks about himself looking in the mirror all the time...LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
have a nice day
Obama campaign said:
The Obama campaign responded to the comments minutes after they were reported. “If John McCain hadn’t said that ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ on the day of one of our nation’s worst financial crises
What a bunch of idiots does the Great Depression not ring a bell the Crash of Thursady October 24, 1929 was the worst in this nations history but of course followed by the folowing Monday and Tuesday.
Lets don't lose sight of history here.
The guy who doesn't know how to use a computer, send an e-mail, or get in the "internets", now invented the blackberry? LOL! THE GOP IS FULL OF IT!
The fact that he still has votes at all is amazing and disturbing.
ahahahhahahaha.... struggle for breath.....hahahahahahahhaaaahhhhaaaaahaa.... choking with laughter.... brouhahahahahahaha
Let's get some accurate reporting – the speaker was referencing the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which helped create the environment for the flourishing of mobile communication devices, NOT the invention of the BlackBerry itself – please ... only a complete moron or a biased reporter would infer such a notion. The American electorate, we can only hope, is smarter than this.
Lmao. Wow. They're really grasping at straws here.
This is SILLY SEASON !!!!
Hate to break it to you McCain, but Blackberry is from Canada. Nice try though.
He can't use a computer, doesn't know how to email, yet is responsible for the creation of the blackberry? I learned to run before I learned to crawl and walk , so I believe him.
Tony -
I've got a name you're probably familiar with hearing a lot... Haywood Jablome?
Say it ain't so! I'd say wake me up to vote November 4th, but there's still work to do. Go team Obama
Obama/Biden '08
Hunh?
People you missed the bigger issue. McCain's advisior said he doesn't EXPECT McCain to know every detail about the economy, finance, etc. He will depend on Advisors for this! So instead of him acting like a President he will DEPEND on Advisors to make the decisions for him! WOW! Isn't Bush doing the SAME THING and that's why we're in the mess we're in now!
Calm down you desperate Left Wing Radicals!! McCain NEVER made such a statment and even LAUGHED when he heard it. He said "it's crazy to think I invented anything, never mind the Blackberry". WOW, are the Liberals desperate..
Just go back to Bashing Palin why don't you! GEEZZZ!