[Rhodes22-list] Tom Horgarty about the 'dragon'

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

Well, well, well, turns out "Ole Man McCain" was a pioneer in
combining the internet with politics.  Here's an article from Slate
during the 2000 campaign -

http://www.slate.com/id/74812/

This is the money quote: "Six months ago, no one would have pegged
McCain as the most cybersavvy of this year's crop of candidates. At
63, he is the oldest of the bunch and because of his war injuries, he
is limited in his ability to wield a keyboard. But McCain's job as
chairman of the Senate commerce committee forced him to learn about
the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang
and Jeff Bezos fascinate him. Well before he announced his exploratory
committee, McCain had assimilated the notion that the Web could be
vital to the kind of insurgent, anti-establishment campaign he wanted
to run. In December 1998, he sent his longtime political aide Wes
Gullett to Minnesota to study Jesse Ventura's successful gubernatorial
campaign, which was the first to use the Web in an effective and
innovative way. "Wes went up to Minnesota and talked to Ventura's
people," McCain told reporters on the Straight Talk Express yesterday.
"That's really where we got the idea."

Of course "The One" is surrounded by all these smartass nutroots types
who apparently can't even Google.  A new laugh every day, what an
election!

Brad

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
> You will make Michael Meltzer happy.  He has used voice since before this
> forum was...
>
> I think Bill Effros is another user of voice dictation?
>
> My wife uses her 'Dragon'.  She has used it since about edition 3?
>
> In fact this week I am supposed to upgrade to the latest version.  I have to
> upgrade her 'Dragon' between certain classes so she has time to adjust
> before she teaches a new class.
>
> However, if you were saying that John McCain should use 'Dragon'.  Well
> 'Dragon' does not suit all applications and you still have to occassionally
> hit keys when using the 'Dragon'.
>
> What he would need with his arm and hand limitations would be one of those
> computers for the severly handicapped in addition to voice recognition
> software.
>
> Now if you were John McCain with his drive and ego, would you want to admit
> that you needed one of those computers for the severly handicapped?  I think
> it is reasonable in his case to allow him dictation to an aid and have
> assistants to do things for him.
>
> Have you noticed that he cannot unbutton his back wallet pocket?  Has that
> slowed him down?  FDR did pretty good in a wheel chair.
>
> Here is a guy who got his handicaps in the service of his country.  Did you
> serve in Viet Nam?  There are several members of this forum who did serve
> over there.  Ask our tank driving Rhodie?  Ask him if John McCain's hand
> limitations from war injurys are reason to comment?
>
> I served in the military during Viet Nam.  I was an outdoors type and
> willing to go army.  But with my vision only the Air Force said I could fill
> a technical job.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
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