When you've got nothing, pull something out of your butt.
Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate's top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.
"He did this," Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry. "Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce committee so you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that's what he did."
Obama campaign's response:
"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," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
Let's not forget that McCain admitted he's computer illiterate and has never sent an email. So I find it kind of extraordinary that anything McCain did had anything to do with devices made by Research In Motion (based in Canada). As for the networks a blackberry runs on, CDMA and GSM networks were in operation long before McCain got to the chairmainship
Somewhere Al Gore is laughing.
(photo from Netroots Nation)
UPDATE - Devilstower has a rundown of all the ways in which McCain has actually worked to stifle telecommunications.
UPDATE 2 - from "Billy" the Straight Talk Express driver
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