Obama Aide: You could have just E-Mailed

[Kittycat]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

Obama aide: 'You could have just emailed'

Obama aide Bill Burton, a campaign source says, went downstairs in their Chicago offices just now to collect a hand-delivered copy of John McCain's invitation to Goldwater-Kennedy-style debates with Obama.

"You know, you could have just emailed this," he told the middle-aged messenger.

The generation gap seems to be playing out at a lot of levels here, and come to think of it, it's striking that the McCain debate proposal includes nothing that couldn't have been done in the Goldwater days, and no nod to the existence of the Internet.

Grampy McSame is so lost :rofl:

[helderheid]

1. Poor McBush

[SwampG8r]

29. thread hijacking alert

im wondering what mccains email is?
im going with [email protected]

oops the email address shows as a link but to my knowledge is non existant

[SwampG8r]

31. or

[email protected]

[Coexist]

36. .

[email protected]

[SwampG8r]

40. [email protected]

[roguevalley]

46. someone on huffingtonpost suggested this slogan:

John McCain: A Man You Can Bereave In

[dkf]

2. An E-vite lol.

[berni_mccoy]

3. LOL!

[NJmaverick]

4. This is a very interesting point. McCain is ill equipped to fully appreciate and lead

the modern wired world, we live in.

[Tinksrival]

27. This is Grampy McSame's Techie........

[redqueen]

43. That looks like a photoshop of a still from Dee Lite's

Groove is in the Heart video.

[DAGDA56]

5. ...and the middle-aged messenger touched the brim of his hat...

...got back on his horse, and galloped off.

[Kerrytravelers]

49. Bwaaahhhh... snort...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. The next one will arrive by carrier pigeon.

[PoliticalAmazon]

10. LOL.

[Born_A_Truman]

23. Or stage coach (n/t)

[Kerrytravelers]

50. Moses will be dropping by with the Stone Tablets soon.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

51. He went to high school with McCain.

[Kerrytravelers]

54. Back in the day when student's backpacks had chiseling tools and not tablets and pencils.

[MercutioATC]

7. How rude!

Somebody worked very hard to carve that stone tablet!

[dsomuah]

11. LOL!!

[dsomuah]

12. LOL!

[Aloha Spirit]

13. haha

[Kadie]

15. ROFL!

:rofl:

[Tatiana]

21. DUzy!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[myrna minx]

34. Now if only we had a Rosetta stone to translate

McCainoglyphs into English.

[VolcanoJen]

47. Bwaaaaaaaah!

:rofl:

[Califooyah Operative]

60. haha

[Lucky 13]

8. Oh lord.

Once again we have a campaign who is stuck in the 90s (or 80s, 70s, 60s) competeing against a campaign saavy in the age of new media. It's gonna be a bloodbath!

Gobama

[Kool Kitty]

38. Yes-the 1890s.

[Lucky 13]

39. HA

:rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

55. The 1890's, when proper gentlemen and women left tin calling cards in the afternoon.

[FSogol]

9. Challenge McSame to a debate.......by text messaging! n/t

[ErinBerin84]

14. "hand-delivered copy of John McCain's invitation "

Oh man, this race is going to be so funny. McCain is so creepy and outdated!

[crankychatter]

16. very cute story - thanks - my father at 94 was a blogging maniac though

I can just picture him writing letters to the editor... blogging on Common Dreams... about the Patriot Act...

"Blah blah blah.... NOT SINCE THE MAGNA CARTA... blah blah blah..."

I think he was around for that Magna Carta thing

even old farts can learn

[Kittycat]

20. My 80-some grandma can kick my ass in computer majong & hand/eye matching games.

I've never seen anything like it.

However, she just learned in the past year to stop sending emails in all caps. And sadly, she still uses AOL - but she earns an A for effort.

[redqueen]

45. Awww...

"Blah blah blah.... NOT SINCE THE MAGNA CARTA... blah blah blah..."

Sounds like someone I would have liked. :)

[NatBurner]

17. it was probably a papyrus scroll written in sanskrit

[abburdlen]

18. He tried to e-mail it

but couldn't get the stamp to stick to the screen!

Of course that's better than his first attempt -

Sen Obama <stop>
In 1963 Sen Goldwater and Pres Kennedy agreed to make presidential history by flying together from town to town and debate each other on the same stage <stop> in goldwaters words those debates would do the country a lot of good <stop>

His aids were seen just shaking their heads.

[TragedyandHope]

19. Gramps McChangey

Right.

[TeamsterDem]

22. Perhaps McSame couldn't work the internets or the Google. n/t

[Kittycat]

24. His Secretary, being only familiar with her IBM Selectric was told to e-mail it.

Immediately 'express mail courier service' popped in to her head. So she pulled the pencil out of her blue hair bun, picked up her rotary dial land line, and used it to call for delivery service.

[TeamsterDem]

26. And then McSame, only familiar with the Family Guy "sexual harrassment" video

(the one from the 1950s) smacked her on the behind, told her how cute she looked that day, then called her the "c" word as he placed his bowler hat on his head and cranked up his model T.

[Kerrytravelers]

56. All those Internets tubes are so confusing. How do you get the message into the tube?

[zulchzulu]

25. McCain's mimeograph paper operation should be impressive

I wonder how hard it is to get that triple-sheeted paper these days. Perhaps some out of business print warehouses have some crates left next to the cassette tape display units.

:rofl:

[anigbrowl]

28. At least he's not offering change you can mimeograph :-)

[Willo]

37. LOL I like that nt

[calmblueocean]

30. I'm not going to mock McCain for this one. Hand-delivery is a show of respect.

Frankly, McCain's given Obama more respect than Hillary has.

[Kittycat]

33. And a waist of paper, energy & resources.

Why would the supposed, "Green friendly" candidate promote such a wasteful way of communication for a single letter?

Shows again how out of touch with reality he is.

[JANdad]

65. Thank you...

i was womdering if anyone else caught that?

[Arkansas Granny]

66. I'm in total agreement with you on this one.

An email would have diminished the importance of the invitation.

[harun]

32. What's a "Goldwater-Kennedy-style debate"?

[depakid]

44. delete

[hvn_nbr_2]

48. I think it goes something like this

One year one of the candidates debates against Richard Nixon. Four years later, the other candidate debates LBJ. It's kind of like the Lincoln-Buchanan debates and the Steven Douglas - Ulysses S. Grant debates. Also like the Joe Louis - Ali video game fights.

[Teaser]

35. spam filters

.

[redqueen]

41. Hehehehe

:)

[Dhalgren]

42. Yeah, and the Obama/McCain debates

are as likely to happen as the Goldwater/Kennedy ones did... :eyes:

[Lady-Damai]

52. Ahahahahahahaha....

:spray:

[whistler162]

53. A Goldwater-Kennedy debate would have been

intellectually fascinating.

McCain(Nixon) - Obama(Kennedy) would be interesting for reasons similar to the original debate.

[eleny]

57. I have a different take on this

Yes, it's true that it's easier to send an email. But in this historic election season, I think there's merit to having the request on McCain's campaign stationery. It's an historic document.

So, really, expediency may not be the issue. Having a document like this for the archives has significance.

[crickets]

58. Agreed.

Still, this thread is the best laugh I've had all day. :rofl:

[eleny]

59. Yes, it's been a fun thread!

I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer. Just figured the letter was something for the presidential archives - our national scrapbooks. :D

[TexasObserver]

61. It's like the cast of Cocoon over there, without the pods in the water!

[SoCalDem]

62. Damn.. and just when McCain dropped a bundle on new "calling cards"

Calling cards for social use were available during the 1850s, but it was between 1870 and 1900 that they were a mandatory part of the ritual surrounding ceremonial social visits. There was even a language of the calling card, whereby a specific message (condolences or congratulations) was conveyed by simple folding over a certain corner of the card. Calling cards also served as a tool during courtship, as evidenced by the tender printed messages adorned with bouquets, doves, and cupids found on a great many cards. Indeed, many old cards display colorful printed designs, decorative shapes, or messages such as “Forget Me Not” or “Accept My Love.”

The quintessential Victorian ephemera, calling cards were typically about 3 1/4 inches by 2 inches in size, but were made in a variety of styles and designs. They were initially turned out as plain cards with an imprinted name, but the penchant for adornment during the 1880s resulted in cards with embossed chromolithographed die-cut overlays that could be lifted to reveal the owner’s handwritten name. The die-cuts themselves are diverse, coming in many shapes and with greatly varying content, designs, and themes.


more on gentlemen's calling cards @
http://www.lahacal.org/gentleman/cards.html

[symbolman]

63. McCain's people didn't have the heart to tell Obama's people

that their Telegraph was down, rather they thought of it as a tactical advantage, then they realized that the Pony Express could make all the difference, and their hearts fell..

:)

[solinvictus]

64. Go ahead and start about McCain's age..

.. and piss off older voters the same way Obama and the Democratic Party's rules committee has pissed off many women. Geez, you people don't know when to quit, do you? I guess that's a generation thing as well. :eyes:

[high density]

68. I guess you've never heard of things called jokes?

Chill.

[high density]

67. I think Obama should take him up on those Town Halls

McCain is a gaffe machine at those.