This thread was actually about an ad - not anyone's service record.

I checked the different fact check sites and McCain did suffer injuries that prevent him from doing activity above the shoulders, i.e. combing his hair, etc. This is from an actual interview with McCain.

And a Forbes magazine story from May 2000 elaborated further, saying:

Forbes, May 2000: His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits.

Slate.com also said in 2000 that "because of his war injuries, he is limited in his ability to wield a keyboard."

More recent reports indicate that he is actually learning to use a computer. In fact, McCain told The New York Times in July that he'll soon be up to speed on using the Internet.

In January 2008, Yahoo! News asked McCain whether he used a Mac or PC, and McCain said, "Neither. I am an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance that I can get." But two months ago in an interview with The New York Times, McCain said:

NY Times: What websites if any do you look at regularly?

McCain: Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously, everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics, sometimes.

(Mrs. McCain and Ms. Buchanan both interject: "Meagan's blog!")

McCain: Excuse me, Meagan's blog. And we also look at the blogs from Michael and from you that may not be in the newspaper, that are just part of your blog.

NY Times: But do you go on line for yourself?

McCain: They go on for me. I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don't expect to be a great communicator, I don't expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need - including going to my daughter's blog first, before anything else.

Does all this make McCain "out of touch" with modern technology and communication methods? Is the Obama ad unfair? You be the judge.

– Justin Bank