There are several things I and many others used to be able to do prior to military service that others take for granted as being "easy" and "simple." That does not mean the mind has turned to cabbage, nor does that mean not having the physical dexterity of years ago make me and many others ready for the scrap heap. That also doesn't mean that we should be dismissed because we haven't followed your rules of conduct as to what we should do, learn, adapt to, or better yet disappear to make way for the young, vigorous, dymanic and charismatic.

I would venture to say that you are not a member of the demographic consisting of military veterans with varying levels of disability. You can postulate until the end of time about how such an advertisement is fine and dandy, since you are still defending everything that comes out of the Obama/Biden camp as the Third Testament.

THIS WAS INSULTING and all the excuses why and justifications you can conjure doesn't change that fact. I don't know who edits the Obama/Biden advertisements, but it sure wasn't a disabled veteran. This advertisement reminds me so much of the 1960's and the actions and attitude of the flower children and draft-dodgers whose attempt at self-worth was through denigration of everyone else.

You so offhandedly state "I'm sorry, there's no way McCain can't use or learn modern technology. He just "doesn't get it." Yet you have no idea as to why he doesn't use or why he may not want to be bothered with a prothstetic aid, or if he even has a need. You have no idea as to what he has endured physically for the past 30+ years, yet since he hasn't done what you think you would have done in similar circumstances (pray that you never have to!), he must be inferior. You in your quest to portray Sen. McCain as someone who should be put out on an ice flow don't seem interested as to why - it's just so easy to condemn and slam instead.

There was a time the Democratic Party stood for caring of the individual, especially if there were "special needs" of any kind. If the Obama/Biden believes that "winning" means trashing the physical diabilities of others, especially disabled veteran, or portraying those disabilities in such a manner as to insinuate that Sen. McCain is some kind of dunce one step short of being committed because of physical limitations, then the Party has really gone to the weasels.

Sen. Obama speaks ever so kindly about caring for veterans, and then has the gall to demonstrate such caring by insults for what is still endured by many veterans years after wearing the uniform. Such hypocracy! Such two-faced action make me question all the more whether what is said by the Obama/Biden campaign is being done to "win at any cost" and what will happen afterwards bears no resemblance to what was promised during the campaign.

That Sen. McCain you are ready to write off as a doddering old fool jsut recently sculpted and fought for the best shot at comprehensive immigration reform in the last three decades. There is no body of law more complicated than the U.S. immigration laws (including the tax codes). Add to that the campaign finance reforms, and several other complicated pieces of legislation. Where are the examples of what the super-smart Democratic candidate has authored in his time in Congress - when he has bothered to be there rather than on the campaign circuit?

If the Obama/Biden campaign believes such an advertisement will swing the youth vote by insinuating disabled veterans as inferior, what will they do to all of us older, disabled types after the election?