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John McCain Doesn’t Use Computers, Yet Googles for a VP |
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Remember when Bush used The Google?
HOST: I’m curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see — I’ve forgot the name of the program — but you get the satellite, and you can — like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.
Well, birds of a feather… John McCain apparently doesn’t know how to use Google in a sentence either.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain joked on Monday that Google, the popular Internet search engine, had made investigating his list of potential candidates a little bit easier.
“You know, basically it’s a Google,” he said to laughter at a fund-raising luncheon when asked how the selection process was going. “What you can find out now on the Internet — it’s remarkable.”
Worse yet, 3 months ago John McCain told Yahoo he doesn’t know how to use a computer.
This is a really sobering thought. One of the two men who may lead our country doesn’t use computers or the Internet. That is like saying you don’t believe in evolution or have never heard of Michael Jackson. Like his hero, McCain is dangerously out of touch. As of October 2007, over 70% of Americans were regular Internet users.
Unfortunately, candidate ignorance on technology often has a strong correlation with awful policy positions. The excellent Tech Crunch Primary has the low down on McCain’s backward policies.
On Net Neutrality his solution is to protect the ability of telecoms to make money.
Sen. McCain says we should let the market and technology solve the Net-neutrality issue: “When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.”
On addressing the Digital Divide McCain thinks we should funnel money to corporations to deal with the problem. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.
“No, I wouldn’t do it directly, but there’s lots of ways that you can encourage corporations who, in their own self-interest, would want to provide — would receive tax benefits, would receive credit, and many other ways for being involved in the schools and upgrading the quality of the equipment that they have, the quality of the students, and thereby providing a much-needed, well-trained work force.”
John McCain isn’t ready to lead on day one, unless by day one you mean the 1950s.
I will be incredibly disappointed if America votes for another 4 years of this madness. That’s what McCain represents - 4 more years of the SAME. It’s just … It shouldn’t even be an option anyone is considering.
In fairness, he IS OLD. My dad is 65 and he uses the internet. Iguess if you are an important man, you can get people to do what you need without learning to do it yourself.
I’m not really surprised he’s not knowledgeable about computers. He is 71, after all. Younger people (especially those in their 20s) are extremely adept at using computers because computers have pretty much been around their entire lifetime. I grew up using computers. John McCain, on the other hand, would have been 41 when the Apple II came out. But even then, computers were for hobbyists or office workers. Not that many people felt like bothering to use them, and they’ve only gotten massively useful within the last 15-20 years.
Even so, it would be nice if John McCain refrained from talking about computer-related stuff if he doesn’t know the first thing about computers. There’s nothing worse than showing your ignorance.
I’m not sure I understand what’s wrong with McCains last noted response here. Is it bad to give companies incentives to upgrade school equipment, or upgrade the Internet infrastructure in a community? Isn’t that exactly what Obama wants to do? Seems like common sense to me. The only way the US is going to catch up in Internet infrastructure is if the government gives the private sector an incentive to stop milking their ancient infrastructure and upgrade it to what the Koreans and Japanese have.
Or perhaps the government should just nationalize the entire grid and build it themselves??
On the main point, is it shocking that a 71-year old man doesn’t regularly use a computer or know much about the Internet? I’d say that is fairly normal for a man of his age. My grandfather only checks his e-mail and does his banking on the Internet, while neither of my grandmothers have a slightest clue about the Internet or computers. Who cares? It’s not like McCain is going to be running the country alone.
Why do we always trot out the false premise that the president has to be an expert at everything when we’re attacking the guy we don’t like? Is your boss an expert at what your company does? 9 times out of 10, the answer to that will be no. The boss runs the company, manages people, and the finances - he doesn’t do the actual work the company does to earn its way. That’s the entire point of an administrator.
If you still haven’t figured that out, I’d be more concerned about your way in life than McCain’s lack of computer knowledge.
This is unbelievable ! He has been a Senator for decades. Doesn’t he get emails from his constituents? Aren’t there copies of draft bills and proposals sent via emails?
I can’t imagine that the affairs of the govt. today are conducted without using computers. His strength is supposed to be “experience” but apparantly he has missed out on the last 20 years.