McCain does not know how to use a computer!

[SergeyDovlatov]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-admits-he-doesnt-k_n_106478.html

Mac vs. PC question.

Huckabee: PC
Mitt: PC (wait my son uses Mac, Mac too)
Ron Paul: PC

McCain: Ummm. I don't know how to use a computer

Guys/Gals, this is scary. If he relies just on what he feels in his gut and what others told him, he is very dangerous person to even be close to the white house in this day and age.

[hisownpetard]

1. No surprise there. Hell, the last writing implement he used was a chisel...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That's the role his VP will play!

[IDemo]

13. If Carly is his VP, maybe not

She was once asked to demonstrate an HP printer and admitted she didn't know how to operate it.

[TomInTib]

3. From what I understand, he wasn't very good with airplanes, either.

Hell, my Mother is good with a computer and she's almost 80 (God, please do not let her see this. I beg you, don't let her.).

[Rick Myers]

4. John W. McCain DOES SO have a computer, here's a photo!!!

“That’s a bunch of malarkey!”

[TomInTib]

5. That is effing hilarious!

Oh, man....

[DangerousRhythm]

19. All kidding aside...

That is one gorgeous setup. I love the custom keyboards like that one!

[slampoet]

31. Where do you pour the Kerosene into that computer.........

Or does it run on coal and whale oil?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

33. I'll bet every single key on that is a "W"

:evilgrin:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. Way to look In Touch with the times

"And them 8 tracks I tell ya, way beyond my reckoning"

Eeeee yeeee yeee

[tanyev]

7. Hells bells, how has he gotten any work done for the last 10 years?

I guess he has people that do everything for him.

[enough]

8. As I recall, Rumsfeld was always coyly proud of himself for not knowing how to use a computer.

Sort of like typing. He has someone else to do that for him. He had no idea how stupid it made him seem.

[Dr.Phool]

9. I've heard he's pretty good on the Abacus.

[undeterred]

10. A warmonger who stopped learning a quarter century ago-

Just what we need.

[Lex]

18. bingo

nt

[jimshoes]

11. Some things never change.

Although I hear he changes his mind quite a bit lately, it just depends who's whispering in his ear. Depends what day of the week it is too. Depends where he is on any given day. I'm not making a joke about depends so stop saying that.

[enough]

12. Kos has a diary on this today, takes it very seriously.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/11/134456/659/888/534064

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Tech illiterate
by kos
Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 04:30:20 PM PDT

There are those who chafe a bit when we take shots at McCain's age, but there's always a deeper point lurking behind many of those shots (cheap or not) -- leading the world's sole superpower in this digital era should require basic understanding of those things which drive the modern culture and economy. Asked whether he is a Mac or PC person, McCain answered:

Neither, I'm an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

Atrios responds,

I think in 2008 computer use and understanding of the internet should be part of the basic skill set we expect from people in positions of prominent public leadership. It's pretty much impossible to have any kind of understanding of how people in the modern world go about their lives and work without that. The internet is not a fad or the playground for 17 year olds.


Technology now infects every corner of our lives, from cell phones to computers to the internet. It has given us access to the worlds' libraries, empowering us with direct access to information. It has connected us with people all over this country and world, dramatically redefining what the word "community" means. It is dramatically reshaping entire sectors of our economy -- from the nation's thriving tech sector, to legacy sectors like publishing, music, motion picture, medicine, and retail. And how many workplaces remain without computers?

snip>

[jimshoes]

14. Man today being computer illiterate

is almost the equivalent of being blind in one eye. Or perhaps not being able to read or do math. Actually none of these quite conceptualize the disadvantages of not knowing how things are done in the modern world through computer technology but it's a major drawback in my book.

[OutNow]

15. What's Wrong With Being Blind In One Eye?

As a Vietnam-era vet with a neurological illness that has caused me to lose sight in one eye, wearing my Veterans for Obama button on my shirt even as a write, I must ask you why you consider my situation to be equivalent to McGrandpa's computer skills.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I worked in the IT industry for almost 35 years and have a patent or two for the email system you might be using right now to denigrate folks with vision problems.

[jimshoes]

16. Sorry you felt denigrated

I said it wasn't a very precise analogy. But lack of stereoscopic vision might be a handicap in certain instances. In that regard, lack of computer skills would be an impediment to being an effective chief executive.

[calmblueocean]

26. I'm with Kos here. This should be a bigger issue.

To me it shows a staggering lack of curiosity about the world if you have middle-class or above standards of income and don't even know how to use a computer. Nothing about the single biggest transformational force of the past decade has interested him enough to sit down and learn how to write an e-mail or use Google? That's just pure intellectual laziness, and we've had enough of that to last us the rest of our lives.

[DeepModem Mom]

17. Not good. K&R

[lazyriver]

20. McCain: Abacus

All joking aside, we've already suffered through enough hell with our current incurious nutwad running things. We can't afford four more years of this shit.

[dysfunctional press]

21. he doesn't know about economics, either- by his own admission.

the repukes DO NOT want the white house this time around- they don't want to be involved in cleaning up the toxic waste of cheneyco's misadministration, and- they NEED the democrats to refill the coffers, so that there's something for them to steal next time- it's the way the cycle works.

[windoe]

22. Like W he needs a 'handler'

which seems to be the Republicon style of leadership, except with HWB himself.

[FloridaJudy]

23. Is there *anything* he's up to speed on?

Economy? Nope. Foreign Relations? Nope. Technology? Nope. Constitutional Issues? You're kidding, right? Human Rights? Nope. Nope. Nope.

Remind me again: what is this guy good at?

[lonestarnot]

24. Well there warmongering.

[napi21]

25. But does he know how to use a cell phone, blackberry, etc?

Does he know how to text message?

[MiniMe]

32. McSame - Bush doesn't use the email because he doesn't want anybody reading

his private stuff. Of course, he thinks its fine if the FBI reads all of our stuff.

[treestar]

27. Yet more evidence he is out of touch

[mopinko]

28. more evidence that he is a puppet.

when you see someone running for pres that doesn't seem to have the sense to tie his own shoes, you gotta ask yourself- :wtf:

[formercia]

29. It's a big leap from Hunter-Gatherer to PC savvy. n/t

[slampoet]

30. What has he be doing for 24 YEARS!!!?!?!?!

I had to deal with these stupids effin idiots in tech support.




"I don't know how to use a computer 'cause I am 65 years old."


Well bless your stupid heart.


If you are 65 years old now you were ONLY 41 YEARS OLD when the very first Macintosh came out.


In other words you were NOT EVEN MIDDLE AGED when computers became so easy all you had to do was point and click.

Even my 59 year old mother in law who lived in Mexico for 16 years during the tech revolution and is dyslexic can use a computer. Her 88 year mother uses the computer daily too. She writes to her 90 year old best friend via email every day. Her best friend quit school at 14 and never graduated.




Also EVERYONE WOULD KNOW HOW to use computers if David Stockman and Ronald Reagan didn't cut the CETA program back in 1981. CETA taught people how to use computers for FREE.

But somehow McCain and Reagan thought that wouldn't be an important thing in the future.


If you know anyone who doesn't know how to use a computer it is RONALD REAGAN's FAULT

[progressoid]

34. Maybe Ted Stevens can give him lessons?!?

:shrug:

NO!

[Indenturedebtor]

35. Wow that's pretty freakin sad

Speaks volumes about his intelligence really.

[jimshoes]

36. McLude still getting used to the idea of movable type

Technolgy simply racing by.