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Look, I know computing inside and out. I know the Internet from countless hours spent online.
And guess what, any president who does what I do would be a disaster. If Jimmy Carter were in the White House today, you can bet he would be wasting time online, too. And producing an even worse result than his late 70s presidency.
The president should be a Great Generalist. He is paid to choose good people, set policy, make critical decisions. He is supposed to macro-manage, not micro-manage.
Meanwhile, the writer has forgotten that McCain was a naval aviator. Flying off of and landing on an aircraft carrier, and doing everything in between to drop bombs on a target, required tin McCain's day and requires now, high technical skills, along with skill and courage.
Techno-dumbies don't make it as Navy carrier pilots. It is far more demanding and character building sort of techno-skill than anything the Internet is going to throw at you.
As both a cyber-geek and a commercially rated pilot of many years, I know of what I speak.
