Did McCain invent the wheel, too? The light bulb?
WASHINGTON — The rumble you hear is the laugh in Al Gore’s ample belly.
In Florida this morning, John McCain’s top policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, credited McCain with helping create the BlackBerry.
Waving his BlackBerry, Holtz-Eakin told reporters: “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.”
He was referring to McCain’s work over the years on the Senate Commerce Committee, from where he supported advances in the telecommunications industry.
The larger point being made was that McCain has the experience to help revive the economy at a time when the mortgage crisis has triggered a Wall Street crisis.
But Holtz-Eakin – well-known in Washington for his skills as former head of the Congressional Budget Office — might regret injecting BlackBerry into the argument.
Ask Al Gore, who was ridiculed for touting his role as a senator in advancing the Internet.
McCain has said he doesn’t know how to use a computer and doesn’t send emails, the main function of a BlackBerry.
The BlackBerry, by the way, is a product of a Canadian company, Research in Motion Ltd.
Well, we all know that the big bloated one invented the Internet because he told us so.