Why would you say something this stupid?

Adviser says McCain helped create the BlackBerry

Move over, viagra illness Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, look 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 Tuesday, “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.”

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.

Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, said McCain’s service on and leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee put him at the intersection of a number of economic interests, including the telecommunications industry.

The Arizona senator’s handling of regulation and deregulation of that industry in particular left him with the skills to help revive the economy amid a mortgage crisis, an energy crisis and a Wall Street meltdown, the adviser said.

“He can and has the judgment to put people in place with technical expertise, with the history of experience in the areas necessary, that we’re going to get reforms,” Holtz-Eakin said.

And I helped create the space shuttle because I pay taxes that were then used to finance NASA.

Come on, we’ve got more important stuff to talk about.

(Plus, if Barack had tried a stunt like this, he would have at least said he helped created the iPhone. It’s way cooler than a Blackberry for God’s sake.)

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