Necessity is a mother
(click to start)
We know that, according to his own statement, Al Gore invented the Internet right?. Well …. NOT! The internet is an invention of CERN, the huge particle physics lab in France and Switzerland. It was a side invention brought about to allow physicists to communicate globally with the Physics community and others.
Now, in that great political tradition of taking credit for everything good, comes the news that John McCain, despite his inability to communicate by e-mail and his self admitted lack of skill with computers was instrumental in the invention of the handheld communications device the Blackberry. You can’t make this stuff up folks.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a McCain spokesman, in a response to reporters’ questions about what McCain did at the Senate Commerce Committee to understand how markets work; held up his own BlackBerry communications device. “He did this,” Holtz-Eakin replied. “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.”
I personally think that Doug has misinterpreted what John McCain told him he actually did. Perhaps McCain misspoke when he said this and, in light of his “fundamentals are fine” statement and the stock market tanking the other day, perhaps McCain meant he had invented the raspberry. Maybe he was talking about Obama and suggesting that he McCain invented the Black Barry? No, Barak is an original. Besides that would be yet a new low for the McCain campaign. No, that’s not it. I’ve got it! What McCain meant was that he had invented, not the electronic device, but the actual blackberry. After all he was around back then, wasn’t he. Tasty little devils too. Thanks John!