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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 12:29 AM

    We're going to lose structures. Who cares about infrastructure?

    Access to high-speed internet won't matter if we don't have jobs to pay for it, or homes in which to install it. Even right-wing dittomonkeys like berlet98 won't be able to rant when he's out on the streets, courtesy his buddy Bush and Company.

    Pretty soon, China will call in America's debts and will own the country. We will finally be the third-world nation that Bush wanted to rule, and that years of crappy under-funded public education has promoted. The real technological challenge America will face in the 21st Century is finding enough sturdy cardboard boxes for its still-living citizenry to live in, and avoiding the boots of the Chinese troops as they lay claim to our wasted land.

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