McCain and the BlackBerry

Mike,

The Obama campaign had nothing to do with this. John McCain's camp floated the idea that John McCain, through votes in the Senate, helped lead the way to inventions like the BlackBerry. Turns out, John McCain voted AGAINST the telecom de-regulation Bill of 1996. Check the facts, something ordinary people rarely do!!!

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 104th Congress - 2nd Session
S. Bill 652 - February 1, 1996
Measure Title: An original bill to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and for other purposes.

McCain (R-AZ), Nay

You have to be an idiot to fall for this stuff!!! McCain has no clue about technology, and can't use a computer without Cindy's help...you think he helped invent the BlackBerry, created in Canada...I guess he was doing a job Americans won't do!!!

For the Obama campaign to paint it as an 'I-invented-the-internet' moment, they would have to have misquoted him first.

In this day and age, for a journalist to imply that that old canard has a grain of truth to it is simply criminal.

10 hours ago..."Enough is enough, this has to stop!!!'

20 minutes ago...AIG will recieve $85 Billion worth of taxpayer money for a liquidity load. Taxpayers(I mean federal government) gets 79.9% ownership stake in AIG. I'll take cash now, please...I want no part of AIG. I wonder how the goofballs at Lehman Brothers feel. They could have waited 2-3 days and gotten $85 Billion from Uncle Sam McLame!!!

Sept 14, 2008 - President Bush'd...no more bailouts!!!

Sept 16, 2008 - AIG approved for $85B (that's billion) bailout!!!

What's the criteria...AIG, yes. Lehman Bros., no. Bear Stearns, yes. Ford/GM/Chrysler, no. Fannie/Freddie, yes. My next door neighbor, no.

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 104th Congress - 2nd Session

Measure Title: An original bill to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and for other purposes.

McCain (R-AZ), Nay

Soooooo...he helped create WHAT Dougie??? Boy, hte internets is (are) cool!!!

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 104th Congress - 2nd Session

McCain (R-AZ), Nay

Soooooo...he helped create WHAT Dougie???

Wow Tom, then your friend's kid must be making over $200K. Your friend should be very proud.

Look at those who are or have been on McCain's team: The fired ex CEO of HP under whose watch the stock dropped 60% and 18000 jobs were lost; Phil Graham, the man who was a a paid lobbyist to prevent banking regulations, an ex lobbyist for the country of Georgia...that was why McCain said "Today we are all Georgians". And a VP pitbull who is being protected from the big bad media. It's easy to be tough when you shoot from a distance. Thankfully the employees at Lehmans know that McCain's fundamentals mean the worker and that in that rgeard we are in sound shape. I guess Lehmans is doing fine then huh?

You can't blame Obama for this one, this one is all McCain!:)

I thought the blackberry was invented by some folks in Canada! When did McCain cross over to Canada? Did I miss something here? What the heck was he and his camp thinking telling lies like this?!

Don't look now, but Ukraine's pro-western government is about to collapse. Good Ole Johnny will be giving a speech about "We're all Ukrainians..." in about 3, 2, 1...

I guess we were all Georgians for only a week or so. When was the last time J-Mac has mentioned South Ossetia...how about Abskazia??? I have family in Atlanta, Savannah, Decatur, and Beaufort (Ga.), that I wouldn't help in a fight...much less help Georgia (former Russian annex) an a WAR!!! I guess we'll have to learn where Kiev is.

To all of you republicans, I guess a change is a very scary thing. It is really a shame that you all want to see this country to hell in handbasket, and to be quite honest, it is apparent that you will say ANYTHING to make them look like the second coming of Christ, which by the way, should not be injected in race.

Is this another one of those Al Gore invented the Internet and Global Warming things? ;)

The Blackberry uses radio spectrum. The Commerce Committee opened up the spectrum for more mobile device bandwidth.

Campaign worker, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, pressed to provide an example of what McCain had accomplished on that committee, said the senator did not have jurisdiction over financial markets, then he held up his Blackberry, telling reporters: "He did this."

"Telecommunications of the United States, the premiere innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create," Holtz-Eakin said. "And that's what he did. He both regulated and deregulated the industry."

Nobody said he invented the blackberry, just that his committee opened up the regulations to allow its radio.

MORE LIBERAL LIES and SPIN.
CAN WE PLEASE GET BACK TO THE ISSUES?!?

Not the Blackberry handheld device, McCain invented the BLACKBERRY. Along with the strawberry and boysenberry. See, McCain worked along side God, and....

I hope someday to have a son or daughter who is so talented that over the course of 70 hours they earn enough money to be in the 50 percent tax bracket. Not only that but they earn enough in 70 hours to be concerned that Barack Obama's tax relief for the middle class which increases taxes on the top 5 percent of earners in the US will somehow affect them.

I thought he didn't know how to use email - by his own admission.

: Ryan C : That quote that you mentioned says that he and his committee where responsible for legislation that allowed these technologies to move forward. Nowhere does it ever lead us to believe they developed any technology. By the way when reporters asked McCain today about the statement he said he had nothing to do with it. Another example of a liberal biased media hyping up a non-story, again I ask what about Rev. Wright , William Ayres, Rezko? Are you afraid reporting this will ruin the chance of the medias choice for President?

Like always, Obama is just plain out of line on this one. McCain never said he invented the Blackberry - he said he was part of the committee that created an atmosphere where new technology could flourish. When Obama acts like a second-grader and twists words around in order to make fun of his opponent, he does nothing more than push away voters.

Ron needs to loosen up a bit and stop acting all uptight like Obama.

Karl: Obama is the king of the flip flop from off shore drilling, to Russia and Georgia, Campaign Finance, On Iraq, Obama said trip to Iraq might lead him to refine his promise to quickly remove U.S. troops from the war.He now supports broader authority for the government's eavesdropping program and legal immunity for telecommunications companies that participated in it, after opposing a similar bill last year. After the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's gun ban, the handgun-control proponent said he favors both an individual's right to own a gun as well as government's right to regulate ownership. Obama became the first major-party candidate to reject public financing for the general election after earlier promises to accept it. He not only embraced but promised to expand Bush's program to give more anti-poverty grants to religious groups, a split with Democratic orthodoxy. He objected to the Supreme Court's decision outlawing the death penalty for child rapists, even though he has been anti-capital punishment. Obama also said "mental distress" should not count as a health exception that would permit a late-term abortion, saying "it has to be a serious physical issue," addressing a matter considered crucial to abortion rights activists. Most of these views have changed after beating Clinton in the Primary.. Fact is his new views would not have even won him the Democratic nomination. Obama is a man who will do or say anything to win. The only change he really offers is on his opinions. He has taken attack politics to a new level.