I get extremely emotional, usually to the point of crying, when I read about McCain’s war injuries. I did not know that he couldn’t comb his hair, type on a keyboard, or tie his shoes due to his extreme injuries.

It equally angers me that the Obama campaign would be so rude to suggest that he is “old and out of touch” when it comes to computers, when the fact of the matter is, he can’t physically type. I think Obama’s camp owes McCain a very sincere apology, and a big THANK YOU for serving 23 yrs in the US Navy – especially considering that Obama never got off of his socialistic ASS to do it himself.

Q: What websites if any do you look at regularly?

Mr. McCain: Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously, everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics, sometimes.

(Mrs. McCain and Ms. Buchanan both interject: “Meagan’s blog!”)

Mr. McCain: Excuse me, Meagan’s blog. And we also look at the blogs from Michael and from you that may not be in the newspaper, that are just part of your blog.

Q: But do you go on line for yourself?

Mr. McCain: They go on for me. 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 – including going to my daughter’s blog first, before anything else.

Q: Do you use a blackberry or email?

Mr. McCain: No

Mark Salter: He uses a BlackBerry, just ours.

Mr. McCain: I use the Blackberry, but I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail. I read e-mails all the time, but the communications that I have with my friends and staff are oral and done with my cell phone. I have the luxury of being in contact with them literally all the time. We now have a phone on the plane that is usable on the plane, so I just never really felt a need to do it. But I do – could I just say, really – I understand the impact of blogs on American politics today and political campaigns. I understand that. And I understand that something appears on one blog, can ricochet all around and get into the evening news, the front page of The New York Times. So, I do pay attention to the blogs. And I am not in any way unappreciative of the impact that they have on entire campaigns and world opinion.

As for McCain and the net — you can understand without having your fingers on the keyboard. He’s said he relies on his wife to do that hands-on stuff. Why doesn’t he take that tack, I wonder.

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