It's hard to tell exactly how much or how little John McCain knows about the Inter net. In January he spoke to Politico.com about his computing habits: "I am an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance that I can get." In July he confessed to the New York Times that he has people surf the Web for him. "I don't e-mail," he added. "I've never felt the particular need to e-mail."
Since then, his staff has done some backpedaling on the subject, but it's pretty clear that McCain is not leet (élite, in hacker parlance), and he is definitely not 1337 (even more élite, in hacker parlance). On the grand scale of wired politicians, he's probably somewhere between recently indicted Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, who famously described the Internet as a "series of tubes," and our current President, who once proudly explained to CNBC's Maria Bartiromo how he uses "the Google." (As for Obama, he's well known to be a BlackBerry addict.) What exactly does it mean that the next President of the U.S. might be a newbie?
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Overly pretentious writer (...the center lessness, the irrelevance of geography, the propagation of information, the Fried man ian...), but point taken - against McCain in my view.
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