Huffington Post: McCain Is Just Faking His Inability To Type
Over at the Huffington Post it is suggested that McCain really can type, and that Obama’s criticism of him for not sending emails is perfectly valid. But Jack Tapper at ABC notes that it’s not so much that McCain can’t type at all, but rather that typing makes him very, very uncomfortable due to injuries inflicted upon him as a POW.
Assuredly McCain isn’t comfortable talking about this—and the McCain campaign discouraged me from writing about this—but the reason the aged Arizonan doesn’t use a computer or send email is because of his war wounds.
I realize some of the nastier liberals in the blogosphere will see this as McCain once again “playing the POW card,” but it’s simply a fact: typing on a regular keyboard for any sustained period of time bothers McCain physically.
He can type, he occasionally does type, but in general the injuries he sustained as a POW—ones that make it impossible for him to raise his arms high enough to comb his hair—mean that small tasks make his shoulders ache, so he tries to avoid any repetitive exercise.
Again, it’s not that McCain can’t type or use electronics in general. It’s that he chooses not to, because it makes him uncomfortable. And who can blame him?
I think the dumbest thing Obama and his supporters could do at this point is try to push this issue further. Maybe instead of trying to prove that McCain (who, as Tapper notes above, doesn’t even really like talking about this) is being dishonest about the extent of his injuries they should just apologize for mocking his disabilities (they could even spin it as being inadvertant) move on.
Because pursuing this just makes them look small and petty and forces people like me, who don’t even like McCain all that much, to come to his defense.
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