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I doubt that anyone with a pretense of involvement in public policy matter who still- in the year 2008- completely neglects the information resource represented by the Internet, ever had much use for the library, or for doing their own researches on any issue.
Implicitly, that means that they've gotten used to learning what they're fed, instead- along with settling into the comfort of their own prejudices.
Quote from John McCain:
"...John McCain does not compute. It's not that he doesn't go online, it is that he can't — even to do "the Google." He says Bridget and his other kids help him. "They go on for me. They get me Drudge. Everybody watches Drudge..."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/25/f-vp-mallick.html
With what is in many ways the largest, most accessible library in the world potentially at his fingertips, John McCain neeeds someone to lead him around...over to the Drudge Report. And over, and over...
