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Klytus -
The headgear in question was called a fez in Turkey in reference to the red dye that was associated with the city of Fez. Tarboosh is the Egyptian Arabic term. Is a chapeau different from a hat?
The main point is not what's on anyone's head but what's in it. The important issue is that McCain's ignorance of computers is a sign that he's seriously out of touch with modern technology. How is it irrelevant to his fitness to be president?
What if 2000 years ago there was an illiterate leader who didn't really understand how others could communicate by writing?
Of course, McCain's ignorance includes not knowing the difference between Sunnis and Shi'ites and therefore not able to understand anything about Iran or Iraq or al Qaeda or Afghanistan or Pakistan, just for starters.
I'm still waiting for someone, anyone, to explain exactly what McCain's "foreign policy experience" consists of.
