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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I've observed several people like this. There is a subtext to this attitude often seen in older white males. I goes like this;
'I can't be bothered with this stuff, I have secretaries and servants for that. I'm very very important.'
It's a sort of status symbol among them.
and pays for it out of my dad's $1500/month pension.
She dropped out of college in 1948 after one year to marry my father and go on to raise 9 kids.
She learned on an Apple II-e and has been using the internet for more than 10 years - only slowed by the pathetically poor infrastructure available in northern, rural Montana - she knows about the digital divide.
A President doesn't have to be a computer geek, a brain surgeon, or ballet dancer, but he or she should understand the importance of technology, medicine, or the arts to the American people.
The national debt has nearly doubled during the time that Bush has been in office $5.7 trillion to $9.6 trillion (and still rising). What did you get for your $4 Trillion dollars? Enough dollar bills to reach to the sun and back twice?
Or $13,333 per man, woman and child in the US?
We can not afford to continue the kleptocracy.
Why am I not surprised that McCain is internet illiterate. He's
80+ yrs old, more than likely has alzheimers, and was NEVER the
sharpest knife in the drawer.
Amanda, What a stupid article, who gives a crap, he will have technical brain surgeons at his disposal, and who cares what the rest of the world thinks, or does, they shit on us everytime thet get a chance. McCain knows how to be prepared to defend our Country, and right now that's what really matters in this time of terrorism and wars. Maybe after McCain is elected President Obama can teach him how to use email.
About 4 years ago I had breakfast with the brother-in-law of one of my best friends—both Dutch. Let’s call him Peter was the Chief Technology Officer for one of the largest privately owned enterprises in the Netherlands, a company whose name almost every American over 21 would recognize. And he was having a hell of time getting the company up and running with the basic applications that a modern company demands. Of course all the financial information was digitized, that was a requirement of the EU, but internal communication was hopelessly slow and cumbersome; each of the companies far flung enterprises maintained their own internal IT departments; important decisions delayed; the competition was gaining market share. “Why?” I asked. “The Mr. X, the president, won’t even do his own email,” Peter answered. “It is impossible for him to grasp the importance of the technology.”
I just did some quick internet research. I could not find the name of the Chief Executive in question in the annual report. Sales which had been flat until 2004 are now up 12.6%. According to the new CEO’s statement, this increase was due to a decision to centralize the company’s IT functions. Want to lay bets that the new CEO answers his own email? Case closed.
Oh, I hear that McCain's wife's family enterprises do make money, and she helps John with the internet. No surprise there. But isn't that so cute?
Because he is really only thinking of himself and not moving forward or catching up with the present. This sets him up as a "do it my way or the take the highway" type of Bushian era fraudulent care-taker of the USA.
Heading back to school after 25 years has been an unbelievable discovery of where America is today in so many domains. It is necessary to be informed and feel comfortable with a forward way of thinking. If not, you are stuck in the ancient ways which need a new perspective. McCain is a dinosaur that has no inkling of the evolution necessary to keep pace with a dynamic world.
Dynamic or dinosaur?!
Which one is our future?
War is a last resort. War president, how thoughtless and self-serving. Is that all the old geezer can come up with?
John Mc Cain would bomb half of Eoroupe to keep America the Greats Imperial power. When it comes to the economy, computers, or anything else he is a dunce.
you must really be stretching for something to write aobut
This article is clearly positional/editorial in nature. Nothing wrong with that, but calling John McCain a Dunce and picturing him in a Dunce cap is really low. Garrison Keelor mad many of the same points last week, but he made them in a much better way, without resorting to insults and name-calling. Let's remember, once Obama becomes President, he will have to actually govern all of us - not just his friends. He will be in a much better position to do that effectively if we, his supporters stick to facts and issues during the campaign.
but all that appeared in his article was another commentary from a Professor King of Georgetown University. Not very immediate, I'm sure you'll agree, when a report from Der Spiegel preceded it by a day or two. The Germans would have greater access to unbiased news and the "realpolitik" of the situation east of Germany than an American professor, however eminent. The conflict broke out last week; Glenn Greenwald came to it on Monday, almost as if it was some doctoral thesis he was working on.
Salon had already flagged the fighting around the Black Sea before Greenwald dipped his toes in it and fewer than 50 or so Salon readers showed the slightest interest. France's Sarkozy has already been to Moscow to try and arrange a ceasefire. Sarkozy is President of the European Union until January when that role is handed over to the Czech Republic for the following six months. Georg W. has given a speech in which he reprimands the Russians and promises that there will be American boots on the ground in Georgia for the purpose of administering "humanitarian aid". AND, of course, we all believe him. I can't see how the American public can have any opinion on this volatile situation, or indeed the situation leading up to the invasion of Iraq, unless they're prepared to take the trouble of informing themselves. Apart from British PM Tony Blair, European leaders were far from supportive of the Iraq war. Oh yes, there was the Spanish Prime Minister Aznar who paid the price when jihadists bombed the Madrid transport system and Aznar was defeated in a general election shortly afterwards.
Cecil Beanie, there's a widespread perception that average Americans, either because of the Internet or otherwise, have a totally skewed view of the world - that's when they think of it at all unless its affecting their comforts. The Internet is an ancillary, as I've previously said, but is not a substitute for complex matters. I know as much about Georgia as you might do but I've tried to learn something about modern Georgia in the last week. The title of a Yeats' poem comes to mind: "The Fascination of What's Difficult". Now I see that the illustrious academic, Camille Paglia, has focused her amazing intellect on Madonna and Obama so I'll have to read her sybilline pronouncements if I have the time. It's evening here;I was at a funeral earlier in the day so I hope I have enough fortitude to read through Signorina Paglia's effusions.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
