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George Eastman House: Woman in kitchen peeling vegetables
Date: ca. 1910


Mocking the Republican spin machine's latest lie, that McCain can't use a computer because of his war injuries: John Cole's Balloon Juice (coup de grace: he threw out the first pitch at the 2001 World Series.)

Digby at Hullabaloo on Sarah Palin, Feminist Icon (she's not)

A very powerful post from Christy Hardin Smith at firedoglake: In Support of Choice telling her personal story of having a medically necessary abortion.

Green Screen Mystery Solved

Why was John McCain speaking in front of yet another green screen last night?

Talking Points Memo thinks they have the answer. That was Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California.

Some Republican flack is probably catching hell today for putting that photo up instead of a photo of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Maybe they had the computer illerate McCain himself search for the image?

Now that's change you can believe in, my friends.

Eek! A Mouse!

wikipedia

John McCain doesn't know how to get on the Internet. He said so in an interview with the New York Times.

Are you telling me they can't set up a laptop in the LapDog Express and show him the button to click to get to the 'net? That's beyond the Republican nominee to lead the country? He can't get on the internet himself? That is pathetic. It's beyond pathetic.

John McCain never crossed the bridge to the 21st century. Another reason he is completely unqualified to be President.

NYTimes: McCain interview

He said, ruefully, that he had not mastered how to use the Internet and relied on his wife and aides like Mark Salter, a senior adviser, and Brooke Buchanan, his press secretary, to get him online to read newspapers (though he prefers reading those the old-fashioned way) and political Web sites and blogs.

“They go on for me,” he said. “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.”

Asked which blogs he read, he said: “Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously. Everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics.”

At that point, Mrs. McCain, who had been intensely engaged with her BlackBerry, looked up and chastised her husband. “Meghan’s blog!” she said, reminding him of their daughter’s blog on his campaign Web site. “Meghan’s blog,” he said sheepishly.

As he answered questions, sipping a cup of coffee with his tie tight around his neck, his aides stared down at their BlackBerries.

As they tapped, Mr. McCain said he did not use a BlackBerry, though he regularly reads messages on those of his aides. “I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail,” Mr. McCain said.

More Stolen Recipes

Independent (uk)

Cindy McCain caught cribbing recipes from the internet a second time. Well, John McCain says she is the one in the family who uses the computer. Too bad she hasn't mastered "The Google" yet.

Now, as a feminist I think it is beyond absurd for us to pretend that the wife (or in Bill Clinton's case, the husband) of a presidential candidate has favorite cookie recipes. Like most of us, when they want cookies they go to the grocery store, or the bakery. At most when they make cookies they take down the cookbook, or call Mom, or call the maid or the cook (in Cindy McCain's case, this is the most likely). But since Cindy McCain is participating in this little charade with nary a protest, trying to win the hearts of the Family Circle readers who pay $1.99 at the checkout counter for the magazine with her Oatmeal-Butterscotch Cookie recipe (which they could have taken for free from the Hersheys.com site, just as Mrs. McCain did) she is perpetrating a fraud on more than one level.

Some funny posts on the subject:


TBogg: Nothin’ says lovin’ like somethin’ that’s been stolen

attaturk, firedoglake: And furthermore, her husband copied “the Wheel”