Sen. John McCain has already shown his ignorance of the Internet, but this morning at the Personal Democracy Forum conference, Mark Soohoo, speaking on behalf of the the Arizona senator's Internet team, was asked whether McCain even uses a computer.
His response: "You don't need to use a computer to know how it shapes the country."
The admission that McCain doesn't use a computer is startling. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush took a beating for not knowing the price of milk as the country slipped into a recession. It's hard to imagine anyone in 2008 electing a president who doesn't know much about a fundamental building block of the modern economy.
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I don't see what it's so important. Everybody knows those intertubes are getting backed up all the time!
Posted by: nemoplanetia
| June 23, 2008 4:17 PM
oops, 'why' it's so important ... hehe ... a computer won't protect a president from being dyslexic either!
Posted by: nemoplanetia
| June 23, 2008 4:19 PM
That's like asking if Bush knows how to operate a pencil.
Never mind.
Posted by: Mark
| June 23, 2008 8:48 PM
It's just more evidence McCain thinks it's 2000. You're not going to win in this environment by bragging about how ignorant you are. That sort of Defiance of the Elites doesn't work any more.
Posted by: gjdodger
| June 24, 2008 9:51 AM
I don't think this is a qualifications issue. Being able to use a computer is not necessary to be the President (although I'm sure it helps). I think it's more of a character issue. Is this a man of the people? Someone I would have a beer with? Someone I would instant message with? The question then becomes "Is being computer literate an American trait?" If it isn't yet, it surely will be in the next twenty years. (1984 is first personal PC - how long until the generation growing up with them is the majority? soon.)
Posted by: thebigfast
| June 24, 2008 1:45 PM
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