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Question of the day: should we elect a president who admits he doesn’t/can’t use a computer?
Posted By katie allison granju
That’s a hot topic at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC this week:
Tracy Russo (formerly of the Edwards campaign, with me in the photo) got into it with Mark Soohoo of the McCain campaign. Tracy wondered how someone who doesn’t use a computer can be president of the United States.
Mark said that someone doesn’t have to know how to use a computer in order to understand them. Tracy said most emphatically that you do, and that someone who is going to be expected to lead the country through the social, political, economic and communication upheavals that are happening as a result of the changes in computer and online technology very much needs to be able to use one.
In the midst of the thundering applause for Tracy, you kind of just wanted to tell the poor guy to give it up, there’s no winning this one but I guess that’s his job.
What do you think?
Jun 24th, 2008
One word answer - NO! Nothing else needs to be said. Computers, the internet, technology today, none of these are fads or passing fancies. People who think they can live without knowing at least a modicum of information about them are in denial. John McCain is out of touch with our world today and that alone should make him out of the running to lead a country that needs more technology, not less. However, I hear the Amish are really nice, John, maybe they need a leader like you? Check it out.
Mccain shouldnt be allowed to be a dog catcher the last thing the world needs now or even just the usa is another fossil pretending they can run the world when they cant run there own bath water without drowning