When Negative Campaigning Backfires

In a new televised advertisement campaign, Barack Obama mocks John McCain as computer illiterate. In the advertisement, an announcer says,

“Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t. He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an email, still doesn’t understand the economy, and favours two hundred billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class. After one president who was out of touch, we just can’t afford more of the same.”

Now it turns out there’s a reason McCain doesn’t use computers:

The reason he doesn’t send email is that he can’t use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country… McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

Oops.