If you want to be President in the 21st Century you had better be COMPUTER LITERATE!

[onehandle]

Even if you just want to be a Representative or a Senator.
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Q: But do you go on line for yourself?

Mr. McCain: They go on for me. I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need – including going to my daughter’s blog first, before anything else.

Q: Do you use a blackberry or email?

Mr. McCain: No

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/13text-mccain.html

[jody]

1. IMO it's more important to be a scientist/engineer because political solutions will depend upon

research and technology, both of which IMO should be funded or subsidized or encouraged by the federal government.

[uponit7771]

2. Not only that but MAC and Windows OS's were made for 14 yr olds. You don't exactly have to be a

...supper genius to use one.

This along with the fact that McSame graduated 5th from the bottom of 880 makes me learn towards he's a dumb bastard.

[latebloomer]

3. He doesn't yet know how to turn on a computer?

What kind of learning curve does he have? And what does that say about his mental status?

[ErinBerin84]

4. he needs to "learn how to get online"?

Um, ok.

Though I'm sure there are plenty of otherwise brilliant people who are computer illiterate.
Unfortunately for McCain, he is NOT one of those otherwise brilliant people.

[Botany]

6. It is those browsers that put him off

[ileus]

5. McCain "That scary e-mail box, was invented by algore, hence I won't use it."

[Cirque du So-What]

7. All he knows about the internets

is that he hates bloggers. Not too swift on his part to make that announcement in front of reporters, because some of those bloggers will now go out of their way to dig up stuff on McNasty & the Straightjacket Express.