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.

John McCain has the same deficiencies in Tech as he does with most matters. He has never pretended to be a scholar - wise enough - because even with a supporting cast of shills - he'd never pull it off. It is though, curious, that he truly doesn't give one a sense of actually being competent at much except recitals. Recitals? Yes, recitals. He recites quips, talking points and lines - kind of like the YouTube 'Talking Dogs' but there is little evidence that he understands what it is he is actually saying. This is further evidenced by the confusing array of facial expressions - the untimely smiles - and the sometimes uncontrollable exhorts.

Could you imagine the conversation in his head - when he recited that line, presuming to speak for all Americans - 'We're all Georgians' He doesn't even have a grasp of the essential facts, and when the American public finally grasps the oil interests involved in this tragic loss of life - the McCain campaign theater is going to be seen as the one with the little stage and the giant lobby.

Central casting couldn't have come up with a better selection to follow Bush. He almost makes Bush seem confident and knowledgeable, instead of cocky and uninformed as is reality. McCain is the transitional political team that combines governance with lobbying in the style of Certs breath mints ... you know - two, two, two creeps in one.

So it's not just technology that escapes John McCain's practical experience and knowledge base - that's only the one that is quite bewildering. In fact - wanna have a laugh? List his competencies, that is to say, things that he's considered an expert - and don't tell me military or naval because that's how he got into politics - they said - sorry - no Flag grade for you.

Acting. Acting is what he does best. Hell, he's been posing as a Senator for years.

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Unfortunately, there are probably millions of Americans who have two things in common with John McCain which will matter on election day: they are also, "Internet dunces," but, they vote with a savage regularity. They're also of the final few of the Depression/WW II/Korean War/Iron Curtain/Cold War era, or Baby Boomers, who remember those important facts of our history.

Many are Vietnam Veterans, & remember the sad spectacle of refugees from Hungary & the Hungarian Revolt, Poland, East Germany, the Czech "Prague Spring" Revolt, Tienamien Square, & other exercises in totalitarianism. They may not like John McCain much, but they are probably going to vote for him because in spite of his ignorance of the Internet, they know he's seen these events, integrated them into his thinking and view of the world, & also, been in the Senate far more days than the paltry 146 Barack Obama has.

Think about that ... a clock ticking ... one day for each second of a three or three & a half minute ad ... one clock on the left ... one second for each day Obama's served, one clock on the right ... moving at a slightly different speed ... designed to show McCain's total # of days served in the Senate; time spent as a POW in North Vietnam; time alive and events lived through ... those will convince many an American those facts are the best reasons available to NOT vote for Obama, but to vote for McCain.

I don't like McCain for a variety of reasons. I sure as hell don't like Obama, self-promoter Extraordinare.

I'll write Senator Clinton's name in here in NM. I'll vote for any reasonable Democrat. I hope enough other Democrats do that that WE, the Clintonites, can demonstrate to the DNC, that WE matter more than Obamistas. Ultra Liberal Elitists are going to take the Party down again in defeat. Adlai Stevenson; Eugene McCarthy; George McGovern; Gary Hart; Michael Dukakis; Paul Tsongas; John Kerry; Dr. Howard (Raving Man) Dean; John Edwards ... all ultra liberals, all losers. Senator Clinton could beat John McCain hands down. But the DNC won't even allow Senator Clinton's supporters to put her name in nomination. They have steam-rolled millions of us, and I hope millions, like me, have just thrown in the towel, and decided to call themselves "independents," like I have.

SCREW Howard Dean's and Donna Brazile's DNC.

Obama, as Mark Penn has suggested, more a Global Guy than American. He doesn't "get" much of the past 50 years which have been the hard fields we had to trudge over to get "here," where he and his supporters never had to worry about a Draft; never had to really (in their prime), FACE the Soviet Union, all the Soviet bloc nations, and Communist Chinese mega miliary power.

Obama pays for a blue state rally in Berlin. He wows the crowds in Paris, London, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Amman, and, of course, all are Blue when it comes to supporting an AMERICAN of exotic multiracial, multicultural descent. Of course, Obama continues to dodge the 1981 trip to Pakistan, which was about his finding out whether he should embrace Islam. Why else GO to Pakistan? Why, of all people, did he befriend Pakistanis and an Indian, among all his multiracial, multicultural friends, in college? Why didn't he, for instance, go on a jaunt around the U.S. in 1981, like so many of us did, with Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck as inspirational sources? Why didn't he want to experience the Midwest v. Hyderabad, Jacobabad, Karachi, and Indonesia and Kenya?

The press, SURELY NOT EVEN JOAN WALSH AND SALON, have expended even a thimble full of effort to ask him to expand more on his disclose, in San Francisco, of that trip. But will it be the "secret" which explodes on him, like John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards' conspiracy to commit fraud on the American people, when they launched HIS campaign for President? Because she was in on it, too, if he REALLY told her the truth, when he said he did, about the affair. That's thus far not been surfaced. That she was in on the fraud, too. And that makes her contempt with Hillary even more vile. What a phony she is.

I supported Keith Ellison, as the first African-American Muslim in Congress, so this isn't about Islam. It's about double standards.

The spectacle of John & Elizabeth complicitous in a fraud on their several million supporters will begin to sink in soon & it'll start to stink, soon.

There are lots of those Internet dunces out there who will look at Edwards, at Obama, at Howard Dean, John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy, and say: they're all elitists. They think they're so much better because they use the Internet, and we don't. They look down their noses at us. The Ultra Liberal Elitists always have something to look down their noses at the average Americans. That's why those average Americans despise them so much, and will vote in thunderous hordes to kick Obama's butt back to the Senate, where he needs a bit more time on the floor.

It's amazing the hubris guys like Obama & Edwards have. Imagine: less than four years for Edwards, and he comes on and runs for President. Wow! But in the end, we now know why he got those $400 haircuts. By his own admission, he had a rather "large" head to match that ego of his. I think her head was pretty big, too, if she thought they would get away with the Love Child Nominee.

Oh, wasn't Riele Hunter supposed to be doing Internet products for Edwards in between dalliances? Another snob, I guess, looking down her nose at "Internet dunces."