This comes at a perfect time, wish I knew of it earlier when I e-mailed you folks. Now, CLICK on the link below and take the poll, when I just checked it it was 90% said he should know about computers. I guess there is more truth in my analysis of his bill S-431 than I realized.
6-27-2008 National:
During the 2008 presidential race, John McCain's online team has often used web video to get the candidate's major campaign themes out onto the internet.
But an offhand verbal riposte by one of the members of that team has turned into a viral video that's providing just the kind of attention they don't want. It's reviving the idea that the Republican presidential candidate is clueless when it comes to technology.
Speaking at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York Monday, McCain deputy e-campaign director Mark Soohoo responded to a comment about McCain's self-professed computer illiteracy by saying that McCain is "aware of the internet."
The comment, caught on video and uploaded to the web on Tuesday by Micah Sifry, one of the two organizers of the conference, quickly made the rounds on the web and on Twitter.
It eventually provided fodder for one of CNN's regular off-beat stories done by its national correspondent Jeanne Moos, who took to the streets to conduct an unscientific survey of what Americans both young and old thought of McCain's computer illiteracy.
Everyone but one person interviewed agreed that McCain should know how to use a computer.
One woman exclaimed: "Oh, that's absolutely ridiculous."
Even Hu Jintao, China's president, surfs the web.
To be fair, what this online branding obscures is the fact that McCain is probably more familiar with, and better versed than most of the roster of the 2008 presidential candidates on the nuances of telecommunications and internet policy because of his work as a longtime member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation -- work for which he has received frequent praise from consumer advocacy groups and think tanks.
So with all this in mind, take our poll.
Explain your vote in the comments section. ..From Wired News.. by Sarah Lai Stirland
June 27, 2008
Poll: Should McCain Learn to Use a Computer?
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Mother Jones posted a video last March that appears to have been shot around Super Tuesday, asking the candidates various questions. One of the questions was "pc or mac?"
McCain himself said, "Neither. I'm an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all the assistance I can get."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/03/7743_john_mccain_doe.html
It's amazing people are just now picking up on this, but we all knew it just by reading S.431.
It is no wonder that Bill S 431 doesn't know what it is talking about regarding how email addresses are generated, let alone used. The 20 or so Washington, D.C. legislators need to kill the bill and stop stepping on state legislatures like that of Colorado that killed such a bill as S431 as being useless and unworkable, but those in the congress are consistently wanting to micro manage the states only to appease the hate mongers in their midst.
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