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Yeah, this is an interesting — if not funny — issue from US political arena -and of course still related to this blog: the gadget world’s dispatches. And here the news: adviser claims that McCain, who doesn’t use a computer or e-mail, helped create the BlackBerry. Wooot?

“He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters. “Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that’s what he did.”

The argument is similar to one advanced by Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000. Gore once boasted about “taking the initiative to create the Internet” through technological and educational policies. He later was mocked for claiming to have invented the Internet, although he never made such a claim.

McCain has acknowledged that he doesn’t know how to use a computer and can’t send e-mail, one of the BlackBerry’s prime functions. Ir reminds me to an interesting post in February 2008. The Raw Feed wrote:

Everyone from the two major parties running for U.S. president is a HARDCORE BLACKBERRY USER — with the exception of John McCain, who presumably uses a camouflaged walkie-talkie.

In a statement, Democratic candidate Barack Obama’s campaign spokesman Bill Burton said: “If John McCain hadn’t said that ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ on the day of one of our nation’s worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week.”