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John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet
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**Scor~Pios**
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7/14/2008 4:39 PM
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Mr McCain, who turns 72 this year, would be the oldest president ever to be first elected to the White House.
In facing Barack Obama, an opponent who is 25 years his junior and has made powerful use of the internet in his campaign, he is battling against claims he is stuck in the past.
The former US Navy pilot, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war after his jet was shot down over Vietnam, did himself no favours when asked by "The New York Times" which websites he looks at.
"Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously, everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge," he said, referring to his aides Brooke Buchanan and Mark Salter, who direct him to the Drudge Report website.
He added: "Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics, sometimes," an apparent reference to the website RealClearPolitics.com.
At this point, Miss Buchanan and Mr McCain's wife Cindy interjected that he also read his daughter Meghan's blog.
"Excuse me, Meghan's blog," Mr McCain said, before remarking that he also read blogs by Adam Nagourney and Michael Cooper, the reporters interviewing him.
"And we also look at the blogs from Michael [Cooper] and from you [Mr Nagourney] that may not be in the newspaper, that are just part of your blog."
When asked if he went online himself, the Arizona senator responded: "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."
After Mr McCain conceded that he did not use a BlackBerry or email, Mr Salter butted in to say: "He uses a BlackBerry, just ours." Mr McCain said: "I use the Blackberry, but 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."
Mr Obama always carries his BlackBerry with him and is often seen on his campaign plane tapping out emails. The internet has been central to his candidacy, allowing him to establish a network of grassroots activists and attract small donations.
Last month, Mark Soohoo, deputy director of Mr McCain's e-campaign, was mocked for insisting: "You don't necessarily have to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country." He also stated: "John McCain is aware of the Internet. This is a man who has a very long history of understanding on a range of issues."
Before he became president in 2001, George W. Bush would regularly send emails to both his father President George Bush Snr, now 84, and his mother Barbara Bush, now 83. Mr Bush's online credentials took a hit in 2006, however, when he said that he had used "the Google" to pull up maps.
Jamal Simmons, a Democratic strategist with close ties to the Obama campaign, laughed heartily at Mr McCain's technological travails.
"It's just amazing," he told The Daily Telegraph. "It's very hard to even think about someone who doesn't know how to use the internet. It's like, 'Really?' My five-year-old niece can use the internet. She knows how to go to nickelodeon.com and play her games."
The interview could be politically damaging, he added. "The tough part is that if one of the concerns voters have is that you are out of touch with how they live, what they want, the problems they face, then this only reinforces that notion.
"He's a hero for what he did 35 years ago, but that doesn't necessarily make him the kind of president we want today. Here's somebody who is in many ways very disconnected from where people are."
[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]
Scor~Pios -AKA- Pit Viper
'When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
When the government fears the people, there is liberty.'
Thomas Jefferson
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 77539
7/14/2008 5:40 PM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
I remember reading the same thing about Bill Clinton back during his first term, but no one made a big fucking deal about that. If anything, that should have been a bigger deal because he was a lot younger than McCain. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 465230
7/14/2008 5:45 PM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
dont be fooled
the internet is OURS
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antwan
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7/14/2008 6:09 PM
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if he becomes the president he can command ppl to e - mail and use the internett for him heheh and a nice secretary under his dsk to do other things to .LOL |
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**Scor~Pios**
User ID: 463170
7/14/2008 6:20 PM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
I remember reading the same thing about Bill Clinton back during his first term, but no one made a big fucking deal about that. If anything, that should have been a bigger deal because he was a lot younger than McCain. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77539
I didnt use the internets in 1992 either. I have learned to use the google recently.
Scor~Pios -AKA- Pit Viper
'When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
When the government fears the people, there is liberty.'
Thomas Jefferson
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 419558
7/14/2008 6:39 PM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
John McCain is a moron the McSame as the idiot running our great country (or what used to be a great country before Bush wrecked it).
He admits he doesn't understand the economy
Google this:
‘The Issue Of Economics Is Not Something I’ve Understood As Well As I Should’» |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 468188
7/14/2008 6:41 PM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
I remember reading the same thing about Bill Clinton back during his first term, but no one made a big fucking deal about that. If anything, that should have been a bigger deal because he was a lot younger than McCain. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77539
Back then the internet did not exist for the public. Mccain said he hates computers, just hates them. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 467905
7/14/2008 6:50 PM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
He is two years older than my dad. My dad doesn't use e-mail or the internet. I think there are many folks that age (not all of them, of course) who choose not to use computers. I can see how it would be a hinderance to his job in this technological age. My mom, who is about 10 years younger, does use the internet and e-mail, BTW. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 400833
7/14/2008 6:58 PM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
That hardly comes as a surprise does it?
He cannot get it up with major doses of Caverject! (look it up - it ain't pretty!)
No surprise there, either.
He's a fucking fossil. A throwback to another time. Unless the dems really fuck up, he's not even on the charts for the republicans. Much less anyone else. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 468123
7/14/2008 7:38 PM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
Guess he doesn't read GLP then.
His loss. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 468188
7/14/2008 9:03 PM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
If he can't surf the internet, then how does he keep up with current issues that effect the American People? A President that can't send emails, c'mon this is the 21st century. Don't we deserve a 21st century President. |
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Anonymous Coward
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7/21/2008 10:06 AM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
My 78-y/o mother learned to email and use the Internet 10 years ago. She communicated with her family on a daily basis, several times a day, for years. Over the last year or so, her skills began to fail, and she can now no longer use the computer. She has since been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Possibly McCain doesn't have the thought processes needed to operate a computer. I don't care what anyone says, I've seen enough news clips of McCain and read enough of his not-relevant babble to know that he is in the very least, in the beginning stages of dementia or even Alzheimer's. |
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Anonymous Coward
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7/21/2008 10:33 AM | |
Anonymous Coward
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7/21/2008 10:54 AM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
this makes me throw up some sour liquids for whatever reason
us politics is such a bad bad bad joke |
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Anonymous Coward
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7/25/2008 9:13 PM | |
watchthis
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8/11/2008 2:53 AM | | Re: John McCain 'technology illiterate' doesn't email or use internet | Quote |
Oldie but goodie...
[link to www.youtube.com]
That dude is not only incompetent, but downright scary. Please vote for Mickey Mouse before you give McCain any votes. Seriously. |
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