McCain Responsible for Blackberry?

This morning one of John McCain's campaign spokespeople touted McCain as being the man responsible for the Blackberry because of his time as Commerce Committee chairman.

This would seem to fall in line with the Al Gore claim of inventing the internet since both men claim that their chairmanships were the key factor.

In Gore's case his stewardship can be directly connected to the mainstream evolution of the net, since its invention was actually part of government scientific work. However, in the case of Blackberry the problem is the device was actually created in Canada.

Furthermore, the moves that opened the door for the explosion of wireless devices was actually the purview of the Clinton run FCC which auctioned off the spectrum and licenses which allowed the cell phone and data age to take off.