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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:00 AM

John McCain, Internet dunce

Why the Arizona senator, who can barely Google, is not the chief that an increasingly technological world requires.

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  • Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:30 AM

    My 78-year-old mother has DSL

    and pays for it out of my dad's $1500/month pension.

    She dropped out of college in 1948 after one year to marry my father and go on to raise 9 kids.

    She learned on an Apple II-e and has been using the internet for more than 10 years - only slowed by the pathetically poor infrastructure available in northern, rural Montana - she knows about the digital divide.

    A President doesn't have to be a computer geek, a brain surgeon, or ballet dancer, but he or she should understand the importance of technology, medicine, or the arts to the American people.

    The national debt has nearly doubled during the time that Bush has been in office $5.7 trillion to $9.6 trillion (and still rising). What did you get for your $4 Trillion dollars? Enough dollar bills to reach to the sun and back twice?

    Or $13,333 per man, woman and child in the US?

    We can not afford to continue the kleptocracy.

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