September 16, 2008 07:02 PM UTC

McCain Created Blackberry; Can't Use One

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• by: Colorado Pols

Somebody better put another one of John McCain’s policy advisors back on the shelf. As The Associated Press reports:

Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.

At least that’s the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain’s work as a senator, he told reporters today, “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.”[Pols emphasis]

McCain has acknowledged that he doesn’t know how to use a computer and can’t send e-mail, one of the BlackBerry’s prime functions.

Holtz-Eakin’s argument is similar to one advanced by Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000. Gore once boasted about “taking the initiative to create the Internet” through technological and educational policies. He later was mocked for claiming to have invented the Internet, although he never made such a claim.

Wow. McCain created the Blackberry? This could be one of those seminal campaign moments where the candidate goes from respected to mocked, bringing up – again – stories about how McCain admits to not even knowing how to use a computer.

McCain is pretty old, so maybe the advisor meant that he invented the actual blackberry – you know, the fruit.