Sen. Barack Obama continues to "change the tone," bring us "a new kind of politics" and reject "the politics of personal destruction" with his latest attack ad against John McCain.

Called "Still," this ad claims that McCain shouldn't be trusted with the presidency because he "doesn't know how to use a computer" and "can't send an email."

Now this attack is--as the Boston Globe-Democrat and Forbes Magazine have both reported--silly and untrue.

(some nitwits are tying to defend Obama's ad by pointing out that McCain himself said "I don't know how to use a computer."  Then again, John McCain has also said "I'm older than dirt!"  Aha, we caught him!  McCain is LYING ABOUT HIS AGE!  Huh?  Joking?  What do you mean, "joking....?")

But the "email" slam in the Obama ad is so offensive that it merits a response.  Sen. Obama is right: John McCain doesn't send emails.  The Boston Globe-Democrat reports why:

McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.  Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports.  He's an avid fan--Ted Williams is his hero--but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.

And this from Forbes:

Chairman of the Senate Tellecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email.  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.

The Obama campaign should admit that this entire ad is a cheap shot designed to make McCain look like an old geezer unable to comprehend new-fangled technology like computers or the rotary telephone (the Obama team is denying the ad has ANYTHING to do with the age issue). The truth is that the Obama campaign is stumbling so badly that they're willing to use anything--even the scars of Sen. McCain's service to our nation--to rescue their sinking ship.

OK, that's politics.  I get that.

But imagine for a moment that you're Sen. John McCain.  You've been taking your political lumps no problem, then one day you flip on the TV (Yes, John McCain knows how to use a TV!) and there's an ad attacking you because of the legacy North Vietnamese war criminals left behind in your broken bones and crushed fingers.  If you were John McCain, how would you want to respond?

If he's anything like me, the answer is: email.

But as we know--and as the Obama campaign certainly knew when they went up with this reprehensible ad--sending email is problematic for Sen. McCain.  So I've decided to do it for him.

Click here to read the email I sent the Obama campaign on behalf of John McCain.  Better still, send an email of your own.

Do it for a veteran who can't do it for himself.

UPDATE: Jake Tapper of ABC News--described as the Anti-Gibson by some--has the real story on John McCain, emails and his injuries.  Will Sen. Obama pull this ad?

UPDATE UPDATE!: This from listener Shane in NH: