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McCain Learning the Internets
Politico today highlights an article run in the New York Times over the weekend, in which the Arizona senator said he has relied on his wife and aides to get him online to read newspapers (though he prefers reading those the old-fashioned way) and political Web sites and blogs.
"They go on for me," he told the Times. "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."
Asked which blogs he read, he said: "Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously. Everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics."
I guess he forgot to mention one because Cindy McCain then looked up from her own BlackBerry, and chastised her husband. "Meghan's blog!" she said, reminding him of their daughter's blog on his campaign Web site. "Meghan's blog," he said sheepishly.
McCain doesn't use a BlackBerry (honestly, I don't blame him - those things can suck the life out of you, and he has bigger things to focus on), though he regularly reads messages on those of his aides. "I don't e-mail, I've never felt the particular need to e-mail."
"I read e-mails all the time, but the communications that I have with my friends and staff are oral and done with my cell phone. I have the luxury of being in contact with them literally all the time. We now have a phone on the plane that is usable on the plane, so I just never really felt a need to do it. But I do - could I just say, really - I understand the impact of blogs on American politics today and political campaigns. I understand that. And I understand that something appears on one blog, can ricochet all around and get into the evening news, the front page of The New York Times. So, I do pay attention to the blogs. And I am not in any way unappreciative of the impact that they have on entire campaigns and world opinion. "
I have to say, even though my 89-year-old grandmother has managed to learn how to use her own computer and get on the Internet (although I do get phone calls from her once in a while when the 'Internet won't work', and she has more free time on her hands than McCain, I'm sure), and many were quick to criticize McCain for now being more tech savvy, I would much rather have a potential president be focused on learning the intricacies of the most important issues facing this nation, meeting with people and hearing their concerns, and actually getting things done. (By the way, AP also has a piece today on whether McCain is "too old" for the White House.)
Just think about it: How much less work do we all get done when we have multiple e-mail account windows open on our computer?
Anyway, the extent of the criticism he took on this issue is just stupid. It doesn't take an Internet expert to end wars or get the country out of a recession.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 2)Jim10:49AMJul 14th 2008
DEMOCRAT CHANGE..
Since the democrats took control of the House and Senate , the price of Crude oil jumped from $60.73 to over $ 149.00 a barrel.
The Unemployment rate was 4.5% in Dec 2006.. It's now over 5.5%.
The consumer price index for all food inceased went from 4.8% from Jan 2007 to Feb 2008.
American households have seen $2.5 trillion inequity investment values evaporate between Jan 2007 and May 2008.
Since Jan 2007, median home prices were down 22.6% for detached homes, and 20.6% for condos.
Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.4 TRIILLION dollars since Jan 2007.
In Jan 2007 the Consumer Confidence Index was at 95.3 point. The Index now stands at 64.5
America voted for CHARGE in November of 2006, and we got it with the Democrat Congress.. Congress "NOT THE PRESIDENT" initiates all spending and tax legislation.
Can our nation survive more Democrat Change in November 2008? "Change may be the only thing we have left in your pockets". Wake up people...
Obama is an economic nightmare.. Are you aware that Obama comes from the "Most Deficit Ridden State in America" .. His home state is in the Worst fiscal crisis in the states history..
wlcn.johnson10:56AMJul 14th 2008
"It doesn't take an Internet expert to end wars or get the country out of a recession."
I agree 100%...and that is exactly what McCain is capable of doing!
STUPID11:27AMJul 14th 2008
The stupidest thing John McCain has said to date is that he is computer illiterate!
How could anyone respect a man that in this day and age admits to not knowing how to use a computer?
It shows two things that he is too old and that he is stupid!
OZ11:27AMJul 14th 2008
John McCain reminds me of the Straw Man from the Wizard Of Oz.
With all of Cindy's money she can't buy him a brain.
Angel For Obama11:29AMJul 14th 2008
John McCain is ready to be president?
Please!
Age does not give you wisdom.
The man admitted that he does not understand the economy.
He wants to fight a 100 year war fighting the wrong people in the wrong country.
I’m not saying that John McCain is not a nice man.
But I don’t want him in charge of my pocketbook.
We have had 8 years with a moron at the helm it’s time to get some new blood in the white house.
That is why I am supporting Barack Obama
(¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID – BILL CLINTON 199211:32AMJul 14th 2008
The intellect of John McCain will doom him in the end!
Phil Gramm is only repeating what John McCain has said publicly in the past.
Its all in your head folks.
John McCain says the economic downturn is psychological. Having on multiple occasions admitted his limited understanding of the economy, Senator McCain instead turned armchair psychologist to diagnose the U.S economic slowdown. In April, McCain told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto that a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological. Apparently, seven months of job losses, oil at $140 a barrel, record gas prices at the pump, 47 million uninsured and a devastating home foreclosure crisis are merely figments of Americans’ imaginations.
IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID – BILL CLINTON 199211:34AMJul 14th 2008
The intellect of John McCain
John McCains understanding of the economy.
McCain says you are better off under George Bush.
John McCain says we made great progress economically during the Bush years. If Americans’ financial woes are all in their heads, John McCain’s assessment of George W. Bush’s economic leadership is pure hallucination. Asked by Bloomberg’s Peter Cook on April 17 if Americans would say they are better off today than before George Bush took office more than seven years ago, McCain replied:
I think if you look at the overall record and millions of jobs have been created, et cetera, et cetera, you could make an argument that there’s been great progress economically over that period of time.
IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID – BILL CLINTON 199211:38AMJul 14th 2008
The intellect of John McCain
John McCain’s understanding of the economy.
John McCain says eBay is the answer for poverty and recession. During his so-called Forgotten Places tour, John McCain offered the people of the economically devastated regions in Martin County, Kentucky and Youngstown, Ohio a path out of financial desperation: eBay. Today, for example, McCain said, 1.3 million people in the world make a living off eBay, most of those are in the United State of America. If that sounds like something McCain’s national campaign co-chair and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman might say, it’s because she did. In March, she told Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes, We have about - around the world, about 1.3 million people make most, if not all, of their living selling on eBay. I try to make a little bit of extra money selling on Ebay. Let me tell you when people are having a difficult time filling up their gas tank. Paying their mortgage and putting food on the table they are not buying on eBay. Also we eBay sellers do not have health insurance. Please ask Meg Whitman why she left Ebay when the bottom fell out?
HELP!11:38AMJul 14th 2008
We all know Hillary has those 18,000,000 supporters that LOVE her to death..So please help her by showing your love...
This is my challenge to Clinton supporters...
If you like Hillary please send her $1 this month...
If you really loved her please send her $5….
If you really - really - really loved her send her $10...
And all of you McCain supporters that are thankful to the bitter Clinton supporters please send her $100, you could afford it much more then the poor uneducated, white, bitter Clinton followers...
By next month all eighteen plus million of you will pay off her debt and we will not have to listen to her begging anymore...
This will also be an indicator of how many people truly care about the Clintons...
Lying is something new to the GOP?11:41AMJul 14th 2008
There were weapons of mass destruction – weren’t there?
Sedam Hussein was responsible for 9-11?
Oil was going to pay for the Iraqi war?
Mission accomplished!
Obama 08
Special Interests11:43AMJul 14th 2008
Vote for McCain the friend of every lobbyist and big business in DC.
IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID – BILL CLINTON 199211:50AMJul 14th 2008
The intellect of John McCain
John McCain’s understanding of the economy.
McCain says you should work a second job, skip a vacation. In his March 25, 2008 speech, the Republican nominee made it clear that selling Barbie dolls or Hummel figurines on eBay isn’t John McCain’s only prescription for Americans facing economic difficulties. The other? Just work harder. McCain encouraged Americans to emulate the 51 million homeowners doing what is necessary — working a second job, skipping a vacation, and managing their budgets — to make their payments on time. How about just marring a millionaire and never having to worry about the economy?
IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID – BILL CLINTON 199211:50AMJul 14th 2008
John McCain cares about children? Think Again!
Opposed to SCHIP expansion, McCain speaks at children’s hospital. Last October, John McCain joined George W. Bush in opposing the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), calling Bush’s veto a right call by the president. Of course, that didn’t stop McCain from rolling out his health care proposals at Miami Children’s Hospital, a Florida medical institution which last fall publicly supported the S-CHIP expansion he opposed. In a further irony, while McCain decried new mandates and government regulation, 9 year-old Jake Bernard who was spotlighted at the event received treatment for his cleft palate thanks to a statute passed by the state of Florida. So much for McCain’s pledge to work to eliminate the worries over the availability and cost of health care.
John McCain is not a friend of the American Military11:51AMJul 14th 2008
John McCain in September 2007: voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments.
John McCain is not a friend of the American Military11:54AMJul 14th 2008
Well McCain had an Alzheimers moment the other day when he forgot his military voting record.
John McCain claims that his military service is one of his qualifications to be commander in chief. I seriously doubt his dedication to the American military. His voting record shows his lack
of concern for our bravest men and women.
John McCain missed 10 of the past 14 votes on Iraq.
CHUCK11:58AMJul 14th 2008
I love the people that predict that a vote for Obama will result in higher Taxes!
NO! What he should do is follow the Bush-McCain lead and put the US economy on the foreign credit card.
Then in a few years when the Chinese and Arabs call in the loans they will take over the US.
Then English will become our second language and Chinese and Arabic the language of the USA.
China owns over a trillion dollars of America's debt!
When are all you people going to realize that eventually you have to pay back your loans!
The US can't just file bankruptcy.
Or is that called a depression?
McCain's Alzheimers Moment12:01PMJul 14th 2008
John McCain in May 2006, voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.
McCain's Alzheimers Moment12:05PMJul 14th 2008
John McCain in April 2006, was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.
HE IS A PIG12:07PMJul 14th 2008
Why am I voting for Barack Obama?
Because I do not trust John McCain, he terrifies me!
Do you remember - when John McCain publicly called his wife a c*nt?
Do you remember - when he called a young person in NH a JERK and told him that he would send him to Iraq?
Do you remember - when he shouted F--- you! at Texas Sen. John Cornyn last year?
Do you remember - when he said Only an a------ would put together a budget like this, to the former Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999?
Do you remember - him saying I'm calling you a f------jerk! to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley?
I do..
That is why I do not want this man's finger on the nuclear button.
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Neuticles10:05AMJul 14th 2008
If turning on a computer is too complicated for John Bush McCain- then how in God's name can he become the Worlds most powerful person? Im akes no sense as does his credentials.