Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.
At least that’s the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain’s work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.”
Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, said McCain’s service on and leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee put him at the intersection of a number of economic interests, including the telecommunications industry.
A McCain aide later dismissed the remark as “a boneheaded joke by a staffer.” McCain has acknowledged he doesn’t know how to use a computer and can’t send e-mail, one of the BlackBerry’s prime functions. Senior McCain aide Matt McDonald said the senator “laughed” at the comment. The Associated Press; Denver Post photo illustration
