McCain’s pet peeve: his wife’s ‘obsession’ with technology.
By on Aug 20th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
McCain’s pet peeve: his wife’s ‘obsession’ with technology.
The AP has released a “pre-convention package” with lists of “25 Things About Obama” and “25 Things About McCain.” Number two on the McCain list is a tidbit from Cindy McCain: Her husband gets annoyed by her interest in technology. Via Politico’s Playbook:
His wife says her obsession with electronic gadgets and technology is one of his pet peeves.
So not only does Cindy have to help McCain send e-mails, but he resents the fact that she takes an interest in e-mail in the first place. Even in his own demographic — white, college-educated men over 65 — McCain is an outlier. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, approximately three-quarters of this group use the Internet. More on McCain’s disastrous tech policies here.
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His wife says her obsession with electronic gadgets and technology is one of his pet peeves.
Maybe it would help if you stopped ordering thousands of bottles of pills on-line ........
August 20th, 2008 at 2:55 pmGee TP, you act like the fact that a Republican is stupid is somehow new or unusual!
August 20th, 2008 at 2:56 pm"technolgy."
August 20th, 2008 at 2:58 pmAnybody in McCain's position with half a brain would have worked to appear somewhat interested in technology. He's too lazy and too stupid to make the effort.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:00 pmShe's the one (or as he would put it the "c*ny) paying the bills. Maybe the Senator should should shut up before she cuts off his allowance.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pmOops, the c*nt.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:02 pmOnly 25 things that annoy John McCain? I thought the list would be much longer...
August 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pmHow many computers has John Sidney McCain III crashed?
August 20th, 2008 at 3:08 pmI take this as either a sign of complete ignorance or that he is such an elitist that he can't be bothered by such crap as computers and cell phones, etc. That is what you pay minions to do for you.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:12 pmTechnology is so passe'.
Why should the Leader of the Free World be bothered with it?
/sarc
August 20th, 2008 at 3:18 pmObsession with technology = electric lights and telephone ?
Lets not forget that McCain has been a "leader" in legislation on these matters which he has no knowledge about - although I'm sure his lobbyists will tell him which way to vote.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pmGrampy McSame says - My friends back in the day we didn't need all these new-fangled gadgets, no sir, why I remember the day the telegraph was invented, it was all the rage back then, yes sir, but I didn't like it, no sir, I liked throwing rocks better, now if you want to get someone's attention, you throw a rock, a real big one will get your attention right away, and today these darn computer thingies have so many buttons that I can't keep track of them, I mean what the heck do we need so many buttons on those things, Cindy likes the porn though, that trollop c**t uses all her time looking for big wangs on the intertubes, I also hate kids on my lawns, all 10 of them....I think I sat on a mouse, a squishy warm mouse.
And you are supposed to be qualified to be president? If you steal the White House this country is doomed.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:24 pmYou beat me too it. He seems to seriously despise this woman.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:25 pmMy pet peeve: Constitution and Bill of Rights Trampling, WarMongering, Flip-Flopping Pandering to the Religious Right Dinosaur Politicians.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:25 pmDon't pick on the old bastard so much. He is trying to get used to the modern times. He even got a hired-hand to help Cindy milk the cows and harness the plow horses.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:27 pmC&L: Undiplomatic: According to the Bush administration’s definition of torture, John McCain was not tortured.
Was McCain Tortured? Ask Dick Cheney
August 20th, 2008 at 3:28 pmPerhaps he resents the c*nt because she has'nt adjusted his allowance for inflation.
snark
August 20th, 2008 at 3:29 pmOld man McCain is a bizarre hateful bellicose leftover from the 16th century.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pmMcInsane:"technology is elitist. So, my friends, I will lead you back into the dark ages. No technology back then. That's what we'll do"
SNARK!
August 20th, 2008 at 3:33 pmComputers are just a fad. People are already going back to adding machines and index cards as we speak.
PEACE
August 20th, 2008 at 3:33 pm"Excuse me as I balance my checkbook with my abacus"
-McLame
August 20th, 2008 at 3:35 pmi thought his pet peeve was kids running across his lawn.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:38 pm“McCain’s pet peeve: his wife’s ‘obsession’ with technology.”
I think he's referring to Cindy's battery-operated dildos. Those things have been around for ages (just like him) and they hardly qualify as "technology".
August 20th, 2008 at 3:43 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
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Yeah. But you know what? Obama should be blowing McCain out of the water right now in polling...
He would be, if they omitted racists from their poll results. Unfortunately though, racists are allowed to vote, so the polling services include them.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:43 pmWhen asked what a database was,
McIIIrd replied,
"Being nasty to the girl you're taking out that night?"
August 20th, 2008 at 3:43 pmHow was this guy able to fly a freeking jet?
August 20th, 2008 at 3:44 pmBreak ; Poorly.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:45 pmJebus. Medieval old fart.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pmI'll answer my own question . . . his co-pilots, Orville and Wilbur, didn't fly jets.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:49 pmWell we only know he was able to crash jets. We don't really know if he could actually fly them.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pmMcCain’s pet peeve: his wife’s ‘obsession’ with technology
DRxJ's pet peeve: That this man is actually in contention for the next POTUS!
(Then again, we've had an idiot for the last 8 years, what's 4 more years???)
August 20th, 2008 at 3:53 pmI loled
August 20th, 2008 at 3:53 pmShayne; You owe me a new keyboard for that last one.:-)
August 20th, 2008 at 3:53 pmLeftside Annie Says:
Jebus. Medieval old fart.
I was thinking more Paleozoic.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pmMcCain is the type of president we need to lead us into the 20th century...
oh wait
August 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pmHis wife says her obsession with electronic gadgets and technology is one of his pet peeves.
My first reaction to reading this was "vibrator"
I'm sorry, I'll get my mind out of the gutter now.
PEACE
August 20th, 2008 at 3:56 pm“McCain’s pet peeve: his wife’s ‘obsession’ with technology.”
I guess she's just got one of those addictive personalities.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:57 pmI bet Johnny McTech still has an ancient VCR in his family room that flashes 12:00 constantly.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pmI got my money on old timey home projector.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pmTechmology - Is it real or is it wank?
August 20th, 2008 at 4:12 pmWhen asked what a hard drive was,
McIIIrd replied,
“Well my friend, the 13th hole at Scottsdale TPC is pretty tough."
August 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pmMacCain buy his porn on a VHS format!
August 20th, 2008 at 4:18 pmHe's pissed because ever since he offered her up for the topless biker chick contest, she has been sending naked pictures of herself all over the tubes.
Turns out that she is quite the online floozy...
August 20th, 2008 at 4:18 pmDoesn't BinLaden hate all things modern too?
August 20th, 2008 at 4:22 pmmcCain is confused and confounded by all those newfangled contraptions that everyone seems to be so enamoured with nowadays. He warned Tom Edison that it would come to this, by cracky!
August 20th, 2008 at 4:26 pmAnd the anti-science 20%ers will nod and say, "he's wise to hate that devilish technology".
The world can not afford another ignorant, incurious, narrow-minded President.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:31 pm"Supporting infanticide"? You mean like dropping bombs on infants and pregnant women?
August 20th, 2008 at 4:33 pmGimme a Break Says: "How was this guy able to fly a freeking jet?"
He tried real hard because his fellow pilots told him that if he downed five planes he would be an ace. After five planes and almost one carrier they finally told him they were supposed to be enemy planes not ours but they still called him ace--they just spelled it differently.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:37 pmTripleKick 11 Says:
I’ll take the guy who doesn’t like to email.
And you should stick to smoke signals. That is if you've mastered the technology of building a fire.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:52 pmWhat happened to good goofy version 4,triple prick?
August 20th, 2008 at 4:56 pmShow some facts before you post this crap.
HOw many infants did mcsames bombs kill, triple prick?
Repeating right wing smears doesn't make it here.
Of course, you don't have the ability to think for yourself.
tony and lido
Bye Triplekick 11, you f ucking halfwit. Read your own links, dumbass.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:58 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
Yeah. But you know what? Obama should be blowing McCain out of the water right now in polling and we should not have to be discussing stoopid topics like this.
I think Frank Rich gives a good reason for the "Close Polls", although by REGION..Obama is doing much Better. He's just running way behind in the South..(Surprised?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/opinion/17rich.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1218971465-z/HGubfXU8fT7k0Bp/SkKg&oref=slogin
From ...The Candidate We Still Don’t Know
As this fairy tale has it, the hero who survived the Hanoi Hilton has stood up as rebelliously in Washington as he did to his Vietnamese captors. He strenuously opposed the execution of the Iraq war; he slammed the president’s response to Katrina; he fought the “agents of intolerance” of the religious right; he crusaded against the G.O.P. House leader Tom DeLay, the criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and their coterie of influence-peddlers.
With the exception of McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam, every aspect of this profile in courage is inaccurate or defunct.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:08 pmTripleKick 12 Says:
August 20th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
It's not censorship. Read the Terms of Use.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:27 pmIt's one thing when a guy differs from me politically. It's quite another when I start wondering what woman would ever want to be married to him.
This guy has gone beyond just being an enemy of women in the Senate. Apparently he has proved that the stereotyped backward guy who only believes that women are good for "cooking, cleaning, and f**king" really exists (please notice that an interest in technology is not on that list, and is therefore annoying). Additionally, he believes it's perfectly all right to call his wife insulting and demeaning names in front of others, cheat on his wife, and divorce his wife when she's no longer suitable to be arm candy.
Cindy doesn't need him for his money. So why does she put up with this crap?
August 20th, 2008 at 5:29 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
Cindy doesn’t need him for his money. So why does she put up with this crap?
August 20th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
She wants to be First Lady.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:34 pmZooey Says
August 20th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
She wants to be First Lady.
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Oh well, if THAT'S the reason, she should have married somebody who had a chance of getting elected.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:42 pm28. Gimme a Break Says:
How was this guy able to fly a freeking jet?
Very poorly. (rim shot)
I don't have the exact stats in front of me, but I believe something like he crashed 4 and almost destroyed an aircraft carrier (his own). Maybe his lack of technology explains it ?
August 20th, 2008 at 5:45 pmIn 1982 when computers had to be SOLD to even the most daring individuals this older couple in their 70's bored with being retired came into the computer store I worked in.
I sold them a 1200 buad modem and the Source and the came back a couple of months later and thanked me for helping them get online. This was back when communications was relatively archaic. These people were brilliant compared to grampy mcsame.
Sheesh, somebody put this guy in a rest home where he belongs.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:53 pmTripleKick 12 Says:
This is so pathetic. Alan Keys tried to smear Barack Obama with the same bullshit back in 2004 Senatorial race, and he made a laughing stock out of himself.
I hope McCain takes the advice of the religious fanatic Republican base and tries the same stupid crap.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pmWhen asked what ROM is, McIIIrd replied:
"Not built in a day?"
August 20th, 2008 at 6:04 pmAnd "Dancing Queen" is my favorite song my friends because I still have it on 8 Track and I've never figured out how to make those little tapes that go back and forth work. What? There something newer than that? Well anyway all my advancements in technology came to a halt when I crashed that 5th plane and decided I was never going to touch any controls again. -
August 20th, 2008 at 6:14 pmGrampy McSame
From Anna Quindlen's colum:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/148980
The terrorists have laptops in their hideouts. Can America afford to have a leader who is just learning how to use one?
Honest Abe was a techie. Yep, it's true. President Lincoln pushed hard for the spread of telegraph lines across the country and used the new medium to make communications with his generals during the Civil War swift and specific. Sometimes he even slept on the couch in the telegraph office when he was monitoring battlefield conditions. In his book "Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails," author Tom Wheeler brings the language of Silicon Valley to Gettysburg. "Lincoln's early-adopter instincts," he writes, "coupled with his being unburdened by the old dogmas, allowed him to outperform his generals in the ability to see change and harness it to his purpose."
August 20th, 2008 at 6:15 pmI wonder who would have nuked us if FDR had shared the neocon's contempt for science and technology? Would there have been a United States to lose the race to the Moon if JFK had been as incurious and narrow-minded as a Chimpy or Flippy McSpin?
August 20th, 2008 at 6:39 pmBadger Says:
The terrorists have laptops in their hideouts. Can America afford to have a leader who is just learning how to use one?
Well, when McStain follow bin Laden to the gates of hell, and finds out he's going to stay there, too, perhaps they can share a laptop and bin Laden can teach Johnny solitaire.
PEACE
August 20th, 2008 at 6:52 pmHow dare Cindy be better at something than Ol' John!! Doesn't she realize that McCain's overblown but fragile ego just can't take that kind of competition -- certainly not from...Oh, the humanity!...a W-O-M-A-N!!
August 20th, 2008 at 7:56 pmBadger Says:
"As this fairy tale has it, the hero who survived the Hanoi Hilton has stood up as rebelliously in Washington as he did to his Vietnamese captors."
Well at least there is some truth in this line, Badger. He caved in to his captors and aided their propaganda efforts with the same level of rebelliouness that he has caved in to K Street lobbyists and has definitely aided Bush's propaganda efforts as well!
August 21st, 2008 at 8:18 amDang it, she's always using that complicated, newfangled "telephone" thingy.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:29 am