McCain Invented The BlackBerry?????
So, did Presidential hopeful John McCain help create the BlackBerry?
According to a staffer, he did.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a top McCain policy adviser, waived his Blackberry around and told reporters today, "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."
Riiiight.
Did Holtz-Eakin also work for Al Gore when he claimed to have helped invent the internet??????
So did McCain do the same for the Blackberry?
Turns out not.
After Holtz-Eakin's comments, another McCain aid dismissed the remark simply as "a boneheaded joke by a staffer."
We don't think talking to the press and claiming a fact is a "joke."
And, oddly enough, McCain has acknowledge that he doesn't even know how to use a computer or send out emails.
Holtz-Eakin claims that McCain's "service on and leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee put him at the intersection of a number of economic interests, including the telecommunications industry." McCains "handling of regulation and deregulation of that industry in particular left him with the skills to help revive the economy amid a mortgage crisis, an energy crisis and a Wall Street meltdown."
Uh huh!
Holtz-Eakin added, "He can and has the judgment to put people in place with technical expertise, with the history of experience in the areas necessary, that we're going to get reforms."
But Matt McDonald, a senior McCain aide, says that McCain "laughed" when he heard the BlackBerry comment.
McDonald said, "He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry. This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer."
As for Barack Obama's side, they couldn't help but comment.
A statement by Obama's spokesman, Bill Burton said, "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."
And there you have it.
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"Did Holtz-Eakin also work for Al Gore when he claimed to have helped invent the internet??????"
^ LOL
lol, can you imagine how much egg is on the McCain-Palin party when they found out the Blackberry was created by a Canadian? Go Canada go!
The Blackberry was invented in Canada by Canadians! Yay Canada Represent! McCain inventing something, please…..He reminds me of Hank Hill's Father, from king of the hill. Kinda looks like him LOL
Frankly, I'm more frightened by the fact that McCain has acknowledged he doesn't know how to use a computer. Um, do we really want as leader of the free world someone who doesn't even know how to use the technology by which the world communicates? Hell to the No!
He doesn't know how to send an email??? What? Too difficult to figure out? Jeez.
you fools all fall for the "Obama glitz 'n glamor"
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-he's a nothing, that came from nowhere. a pure invention from the media. think for a second, if he was white would you vote for him then??? or would you vote for Hillary??
Two things…Blackberry was 'invented' in Canada and second PEREZ…Do a little reserach, Al Gore DID help to create the internet, and he was one of those who spearheaded it's use for ordinary people…so you have him to thank for your blog.
I think he meant to say McCain invented the "original" blackberry. The kind on a vine. Right after he invented the dinosaur saddle.