All hail the great inventor

Previously, John McCain has admitted that he does not know anything about computers or the internet, and does not send or receive any of his own emails or text messages.

It might surprise you, then, to learn that he invented the Blackberry.

Huh? Well, right now the country is going through some severe financial problems as a result of GOP deregulation (i.e. allow financial institutions to police themselves, the devastating results of which are happening just as predicted). On top of that, McCain just made another out-of-touch pronouncement that the economy is strong. With this one-two punch of being complicit and out-of-touch on the economy (perhaps he was busy counting his houses), the Republicans needed a distraction. Enter McCain senior domestic policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin.

Through Holtz-Eakin, the McCain campaign responded to questions about the economy by pronouncing that the Blackberry mobile e-mail device was a "miracle that John McCain helped create." He held up his Blackberry, telling reporters: "He (McCain) did this", followed by: "So you’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."

I'm sure this also comes as a complete surprise to Research In Motion, the Canadian company that actually produces the Blackberry.

Same old Republican tactics - when faced with a tough question that brings your failures to light, answer by changing the topic and make an outlandish claim. I'm just surprised that they're backing off from their previous blame of Obama for the failed Republican economic policies of the past seven years.