Thrown off stride by a hard-charging campaign from Republican rivals John McCain and Sarah Palin, Barack Obama moved Friday to reclaim the spotlight and assure worried supporters that he can and will fight back.
"We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain's attacks and we will take the fight to him," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said in a memo Friday.
"But we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people. We will not allow John McCain and his band of Karl Rove disciples to make this big election about small things."
So Obama announces he is going to fight back on the big issues that matter to the American people. Good, Obama, let's see what you got.
A couple of paragraphs down, we see Obama taking action:
The new Obama ad hit McCain hard, ridiculing him as a computer illiterate who doesn't know how to use e-mail and working to cast the 72-year-old Arizonan as out of touch with ordinary Americans.
Mocking McCain's computer skills? Didn't Obama's campaign manager just say this campaign wouldn't be about small things?
Actually, there is a reason John McCain can't use the computer. It's because the North Vietnamese crippled McCain's arms, causing injuries so severe that he can’t lift his hands high enough to comfortably use a computer keyboard.
Jonah Goldberg learned this after a few minutes searching Google. Which makes me wonder, why couldn't the supposedly computer-savvy Obama people have done a little research before embarassing themselves with this petty ad? Presumably they have the use of their arms and hands.
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