Why didn’t McCain seem to be embarrassed, or say that he planned to learn? It’s not just that he doesn’t use (or doesn’t like) computers/the internet, it’s that he doesn’t seem even to want to – and apparently doesn’t know he’s expected to, either.

I hate to use an analogy, but what if, say, Taft had said he did not use, and had no interest in using, the telephone? (Or considering how common computers are now, it would probably be more accurate to say Wilson or Harding or Coolidge.) Computers, and the internet, are useful, even just for email, and there is no equivalent substitute. Anyone not using them is short at tool, which I don’t find trivial.

By simple virtue of my surfing the net, or even just using a pooter, does not make me smarter. Now what one does with that info, how one processes it, analyzes it? The platform the info is delivered on, does not change the basic issues of this election.

Economy/petroleum. And global war (the rise of militant radical Islam). Aren’t going to change because Barry peeks at Kos, and Johnnie Mac doesn’t peruse Drudge.

Technology is not a cure, nor panacea for all. And frankly, I honestly believe you’d be more than a little surprised at the real world IQ of the current Prez. If you allowed yourself to put down the partisan pom poms for a whole second [I laughed at Dubya (and loudly). Unable to believe it when he first made it out of the primaries (back in da day, when I too was a lib].

Neither candidate is going to make the other half of the electorate happy (or of course ecstatic). If Barry’s iPod playlist, gives some a reason to vote for him, wonnnerful.

Myself though, I don’t think Obama a rube or unsophisticate, because he doesn’t spin vinyl (like myself). In a time of epic turmoil, who is hippest, slickest, coolest, or most wired (or who Scarlett Johansson has a crush on). Matters little.

The morning of January 21, 2009. When the winner gets out of bed, and actually goes to work. Will we truly know.

Signed, what’s My Space?

Then he would have won the 2000 Republican primary.

Does eight years of a complete lack of intellectual rigour and curiousity from the current holder of that office not demonstrate, clearly, the costs to be born from such a lack?

What if he said “oh, I can’t read, I have my aides read to me, I’m busy with more important things than mere reading and writing.”

No … better yet, let’s let SAG decide (but only after they shut down Hollywood. Again). And shucks, even Puffy Combs tells me I’m gonna die, if I don’t vote Obama.

Leadership comes in many forms. Hopefully such will be the deciding factor come November 4.