Now, some make take issue, like the 4 million households who have lost their homes to forclosure, to the fact McCains top economic advisor refers to them as 'whiners'. The same could be said about the hundreds of thousands who have lost their jobs, thanks the McCain's counterpart bush who has cost America many, many jobs.
I however thought the last line in the article, the direct quote from McCain was more offensive and needed to be explored.
ALL technological advances in the 20th century were American in origin?! I mean seriously, the man said, and that is a direct quote, that ALL technology that came from the 20th AND 21st century have all been American in origin.
Does that bother anyone else? I mean, is he really that ignorant, or is he pandering to an ignorant audience trying to get votes? Either way to discount all the technological achievements of the last hundred plus years and say they are all due to Americans seems not only stupid, but something that can easily be disproved.
I'll start with this link alone...
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121599a.htm
Thats every technological advancement that was documented between the years of 1900-1999. It includes such minor inventions as the disposable razor. Just browsing a few will show that America was far from being the ONLY country to make any significant breakthroughs.
I mean, he is discounting the Japanese, the Germans, hell - the rest of the world, not to mention so many inventions that I can't even begin to copy and paste the list.
Anyone else offended by this?