Huh?

McCain's top economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin came up with great reason to vote for his candidate come November:

We all need to vote for John McCain because he...(wait for it)...helped invent the Blackberry.

No, go ahead, read that last line again. I know you need to. It's okay.

This is a reach-exceeds-grasp attempt by Holtz-Eakin to convey that John McCain knows how to regulate and de-regulate an industry and can bring us out of the current financial meltdown. Never mind that simply bringing up the Blackberry also hangs a lantern on the fact that McCain doesn't even know how to send an e-mail...which, uh...makes him seem out-of-touch...

McCain laughed when he heard the comment (probably because he thought they were talking about, well, real blackberries). Senior aide Matt McDonald called it a "bone-headed joke".

But Obama's campaign was a little less kind. This is from Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton:

"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."

Ouch!