Not just the Internet, McCain can't use a Fricken Telephone!

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Saturday June 28, 2008 · 9:42 AM PDT

2008/06/28 · 09:42

I don't know about you, but I don't want someone answering the phone at 3AM if they can't figure out they're on a dead line... It's not just the new fangled internet that John McCain can't use or understand, apparently his difficiencies also extend to the Telephone, invented in 1875....

This is sad because it shows a basic techonological incompetence by John McCain, just as the US faces risks internationally from Internet based terrorists as well as economic challenges from the highly connected society now creating telecommutors in dozens of industries through outsourcing.

This is not snark, I couldn't make it up if I'd tried...

Although John McCain was stumping in Ohio on Friday, his campaign arranged for him to talk by phone to leaders of B'nai B'rith International, a major Jewish group, who were meeting in Ottawa. Reporters were invited to dial in to the conference call at 3 p.m. to listen.

McCain soon came on the line and launched into his spiel. "Thank you for all the good you do," he began.

Then silence.

Finally, at 3:18, McCain came back on the line.

"Where did you lose me?" he asked.

"We lost you at the very beginning," he was told. "You gave your whole speech and you didn't know you weren't connected to us."

"I'm so sorry," McCain replied. "I'm very sorry. I'll do it again."

This is a basic functioning incompetence I don't think we've ever seen in a Presidential candidate before.

Who can't figure out they're on a dead line?

Who can't listen while they talk?

John McCain is either the worlds least competent telephone operator, or the worlds worst listener...

Either way, there is no damn way in the world we should allow him anywhere near that telephone @ 3AM...

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