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For the person who mentioned that Bush I was the least, I guess, backwards, of our last 3 Republican Presidents. If you recall, Bush did that horrific photo-op in the grocery store where he showed he'd no idea that technology had advanced because he'd never seen an in-store scanner before. HOWEVER, and this a big one, about the only merger/acquisition his FTC had not allowed to go through was the attempt by Nielsen to buy its remaining significant competitor in the CPG tracking business, IRI, who, btw, had pushed for the use of in-store scanning technology through its BehaviorScan testing service and had, in fact, introduced the first scanning tracking service in the late 1980s. The Bush FTC said the acquisition would end all innovation in that segment of the market research insutry.
So, the President was clueless about the technology involved. It caused him ridicule and probably cost him some votes. And his FTC still came to the correct conclusion when faced with a real-world decision.
Let's face it. If McCain got up there and told you he surfed the web every day, you'd laugh at him for it and tell him to stop trying. I'm not going to vote for him, but this certainly isn't a reason.
