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McCain flogs off technological history
LOSING CANDIDATE for US President, John McCain is offering you - yes, you! - the chance to finish your Christmas shopping with a tech bargain, courtesy of his failed political campaign.
McCain's campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia is flogging off the leftover kit that it bought with the millions of dollars in taxpayers dosh that funded his bid for the Presidency. We can't help but wonder if the cash should go back to the taxpayers, rather than to the McCain camp, but will leave others better versed in the intricacies of American campaign finance to debate that one.
Regardless, an email sent out by McCain operative Andrew Freeman to campaign staff and volunteers pitched the clearance sale as the chance to "Own a piece of history".
Blackberries, desktops and laptops are all on the chopping block, and the campaign will even accept credit cards.
Want a Blackberry 8700? 30 bucks will do the trick. A 4-gang power strip? That can be yours for just a dollar. A dollar will also get you a pound-weight of ethernet cables, should you so require.
Unfortunately, not everything on offer is a bargain. At $570, there are better machines available new than a second-hand Dell Latitude D820, unless you can pick one up with some campaign data left intact, in which case we suspect it would be worth a pretty penny.
The irony, of course, is that John McCain himself is a famed luddite, once telling reporters that he was internet "illiterate". Although McCain freely admitted that he had "Never felt the particular need to email", it seems that hawking email devices to staffers is now a crucial part of his campaign debt retirement strategy. Or just retirement strategy. µ
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Get off your high horse you insufferable ass. John McCain is not a "luddite", and there are far more useful measures for determining if someone should run for president or not. Why don't you fix all the fuckups in your country before you start making asshat comments. KTHNKS. Douche.
"taxpayers dosh that funded his bid for the Presidency"
Yea, cause Obama didn't receive any tax payer funds for his campaign. /sarcasm
Hey Louis, relax FFS! What is wrong with you Americans? No-one can say anything without you lot going off half cocked! No-one is saying that McCain is a bad guy or that America sucks. Or are they???!
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!
You pass by the reason McCain never used computers. This is just slander, as has been well documented, He cannot use a keyboard due to injuries he received at the hands of Vietnamese torturers. In fact the Obama campaign had to release a public apology for an add along the lines of this poorly researched article. So maybe next time do some research before you slander. Also, where did you get the info that tax payer dollars were used to acquire this equipment? The campaign received both public and private financing, so its not a given that it was public dollars at all.
@Louis, @kraken,
you are clearly what are referred to as low information voters, aka morons.
Mccain openly admits he's not one for technology and its not just his injuries, plenty of people far more disabled than he use computers every day for their work. So either he's too lazy, stupid or disinterested to learn your choice.
Obama didn't receive taxpayer funds for his campaign that is what is know as opting out of public financing, look it up...
And yes there are better criteria to use when picking a president, and in the end the American people realized that and we did the right thing and chose the candidate who more embodied what this country actually stands for and believes in, not the bitter, pugilistic, maniacal, out of touch wack jobbie and his mongoloid, truth challenged side kick and her band of knot kneed, buck toothed, inbred, glassy eyed evangelical white trash peeps she called a family.
peace out bitches.
Not me.
I think it hilarious all the wilful ignorance on display here.
As a non-American who doesn't care about you or your politics, I know more about McCain it seems than many of you do. And you seem to have man-crushes on him.
Just like many elderly people (he's 72 in case you forgot) he just doesn't understand or wants to understand technology. It is just to difficult. My father is a similar age and is exactly the same way.
His wartime injuries doesn't prevent him from using a keyboard, mouse, phone keypad or any other input device. It is only in shoulder movement that he is limited (eg. he can't raise his arms above shoulder height).
If I learned this while paying attention to the news and not giving a crap about the US, why don't you seemingly patriotic idiots?
Grow some sacks and stop your whining.
"...and the campaign will even accept credit cards."
lmfao
... for getting all the nutters out... that has cheered me up to no end ;-)