McCain On His Computer Illiteracy: ‘I’m Learning To Get Online Myself, And I’ll Have That Down Fairly Soon’
McCain On His Computer Illiteracy: ‘I’m Learning To Get Online Myself, And I’ll Have That Down Fairly Soon’
John McCain has acknowledged that he is “an illiterate” when it comes to computers. He said he “has to rely on his wife for all the assistance he can get.” At the Personal Democracy Forum last month, McCain aide Mark Soohoo argued in McCain’s defense that “you don’t have to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country.” “John McCain is aware of the internet,” Soohoo said. Watch it:
In an interview with New York Times, John McCain confirmed that he doesn’t email, doesn’t read blogs, doesn’t go online, but does occasionally read Drudge. While he’s not a consumer of online information, McCain said he does “understand the impact of blogs on American politics today and political campaigns”:
Q: What websites if any do you look at regularly?
Mr. McCain: Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously, everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics, sometimes.
(Mrs. McCain and Ms. Buchanan both interject: “Meagan’s blog!”)
Mr. McCain: Excuse me, Meagan’s blog. And we also look at the blogs from Michael and from you that may not be in the newspaper, that are just part of your blog.
Q: But do you go on line for yourself?
Mr. McCain: They go on for me. I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need – including going to my daughter’s blog first, before anything else.
Q: Do you use a blackberry or email?
Mr. McCain: No
Mark Salter: He uses a BlackBerry, just ours.
Mr. McCain: I use the Blackberry, but I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail. I read e-mails all the time, but the communications that I have with my friends and staff are oral and done with my cell phone. I have the luxury of being in contact with them literally all the time. We now have a phone on the plane that is usable on the plane, so I just never really felt a need to do it. But I do – could I just say, really – I understand the impact of blogs on American politics today and political campaigns. I understand that. And I understand that something appears on one blog, can ricochet all around and get into the evening news, the front page of The New York Times. So, I do pay attention to the blogs. And I am not in any way unappreciative of the impact that they have on entire campaigns and world opinion.
McCain said he doesn’t “expect to set up my own blog.” He appears to be unaware that his own campaign has a couple of blogs. McCain may want to check those out on “a google.”
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Great! Another dumb president telling us all we are stupid!
July 12th, 2008 at 7:59 pmMaybe Cindy will start her own blog and share more plagiarized cookie recipes. Wouldn’t that be special?
July 12th, 2008 at 8:07 pmHuh- Tony Snow died.
July 12th, 2008 at 8:21 pmDoes this mean it’s snowing in hell?
Dang, mcchimpy is all over the place. he does then he doesn’t.
July 12th, 2008 at 8:33 pmhe flip-flops when there’s no need to flip-flop. What a liar.
my gawd… how full of sh!t can one guy be?
the lies and b.s. just roll off his hissing tongue…
must be 2nd nature…
he forgets “megan’s blog!”, then it’s the first he looks at…
then he has to suck up to the NYT guys…
he doesn’t use the blackberry, then he does, just not HIS…
(and what’s THAT mean?)
and does he think that he’s the only person capable “of being in contact with them literally all the time”???
jeez, what a dinosaur…
July 12th, 2008 at 8:44 pmMcCain’s another ideal sock puppet candidate like Dubya, and Ryagun, for the ultra right to manipulate as they cut up the country and sell it off from under us!
July 12th, 2008 at 8:48 pmMcCain: A Ford Model T on the intrawebs.
July 12th, 2008 at 8:52 pmI don’t know about any of you, but I am, seeing a very strange layout problem with this site right now. And the comments section is in a totally different font and color. Very weird. Can’t see the article itself to commment on it. Hope it gets fixed soon. Anyone watching the comments? or the site?
July 12th, 2008 at 8:58 pmsomebody’s f’n wit ya, wayne! oooooo-ooo-oooo (eerie music)….
looks fine on my mac/firefox…
July 12th, 2008 at 9:02 pmnone of it matters anyway… mcSAME’s media’s got another diversion brewing:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=bernie+mac&btnG=Search+News
July 12th, 2008 at 9:08 pmLest we forget: Sen. McCain graduated Annapolis 894th out of a class of 899.
July 12th, 2008 at 9:13 pmJohn McCain and the Queen of Diamonds
Remember the Movie: The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
Plot Summary for:
After Raymond returns from the Korean War as a decorated hero, the other members of his platoon can’t really remember what he did to win his medal. Two of the soldiers start having recurring nightmares, and one of them decides to investigate Raymonds current activities. What dark and sinister secrets are being withheld by the Government and the Army ?
They Gave Raymond a deck of Cards to Play With. When Raymond Views the Queen of
Diamonds, he is under the control of his Keepers.
Does the White House give John McCain a deck of Cards to play with?
Is McCain a Queen of Diamonds Manchurian Candidate ?
July 12th, 2008 at 9:18 pmWayne, The TP home page is experiencing similar technical difficulties on my screen too. Ironic on a thread about McCain’s problems with computers…No??
July 12th, 2008 at 9:40 pmRe: We now have a phone on the plane that is usable on the plane.
I bet it’s one of those wooden wall phones from 1910 with the two bells at the top, and a crank on the side…
Damn. It’s taken him over 13 years to get acquainted with the Internet. The man is so freaking out of touch that he has to have aides do the work for him. Reminds me of Bush and the news DVDs that his staff has to make for him.
July 12th, 2008 at 9:46 pmRe: I understand the impact of blogs on American politics today and political campaigns.
Correction, Mr. Mac. You understand the impact of blogs based on what your advisers tell you, not from your own experience (Remember? They do go online for you, as you stated).
Besides, you have to regularly visit those “other” blogs, too, in order to get a full understanding of politics and how they shape the landscape.
July 12th, 2008 at 9:53 pmHe’s aware of the internet? Next thing ya know he’ll be swiping a debit card :)~
July 12th, 2008 at 9:59 pmMy screen is whacked out too :(
July 12th, 2008 at 10:02 pm.
OMFG…
Has Johnny McFormat been using the inter-tubers again…?
*Note to Sitemonitor…
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July 12th, 2008 at 10:15 pmMy dad is 86 and he’s been online for years. He reads a number of newspapers, reads email, and is comfortable doing searches for new information. McBush just demonstrates, once again, how out of touch he is with the rest of the universe.
July 12th, 2008 at 10:23 pmyea… he’s nothin’ like duby…
McCain Launches Radio Address Series, Moves to Package Campaign …
July 12th, 2008 at 10:24 pmFOXNews – 10 hours ago
by FOXNews.com John McCain delivered the first of what are expected to be weekly radio addresses Saturday, in his latest attempt to package his campaign message and make sure voters get a clean version of the week’s talking points.
Taking cue from White House, McCain talks economy in new radio address Reuters
katy Says:
yea… he’s nothin’ like duby…
McCain Launches Radio Address Series, Moves to Package Campaign …
FOXNews – 10 hours ago
by FOXNews.com John McCain delivered the first of what are expected to be weekly radio addresses Saturday, in his latest attempt to package his campaign message and make sure voters get a clean version of the week’s talking points.
Taking cue from White House, McCain talks economy in new radio address Reuters
What a hack he is. he’s doing this bs to show he does work on the weekends, well at least on Saturday.
July 12th, 2008 at 10:50 pmThanks, katy. I switched over to the Firefox browser and the layout looks just fine there. I hope this bit of technical news will help the moderators fix the problem. I know others have seen weird things tonight, too. ;)
July 12th, 2008 at 11:13 pmI will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.
~McCain
McCain is unaware of the price of gas, has never gone online, and is barely becoming computer literate.
Well, that is one man who is out of touch. Seems like modern times simply zoomed past him.
Next: McCain confesses to being afraid of airplanes with no propellers.
July 12th, 2008 at 11:17 pmNow this might be one place where McCain is not like Bush.
Even President Chimpy knows about the internets and how to use the Googles.
But holy cow, in this day and age, to admit not knowing how to log on? Even my 78 year old mother-in-law has an email address and logs on every day! (And let me tell you about the weird links I get from her!)
July 12th, 2008 at 11:46 pmI hope he at least understands that the Internet is not a “series of tubes”, as his friend, Ted Stevens (assuming Stevens thinks he has any friends left) believes it to be. He would then know more about it than the ranking Republican on the Senate subcommittee that oversees it.
July 12th, 2008 at 11:49 pmIt’s “a” blackberry not “the” blackberry. You don’t have the only one, McCain.
And he is “learning” to get on the internet himself? You click on the Internet Explorer Icon or Mozilla Firefox Icon after you boot your computer up. It’s only one click away…there is nothing to learn beyond that.
Unless his people have him using dialup through Dos with Prodigy. Remember Prodigy?
Good god.
July 12th, 2008 at 11:50 pmAn Edsel candidate for hypernet times.
Don’t let him near the fax machine.
July 12th, 2008 at 11:50 pmAfter he learns how to fdisk his computer, he’ll be just fine.
July 12th, 2008 at 11:54 pmI bet he’s into morse code!
July 13th, 2008 at 12:44 amIs he taking this “I’m not an elitist” to such and extreme that it’s becoming “I’m just a fumbduck”?
July 13th, 2008 at 12:52 amSo McCain thinks that because he knows of blogs and reads his daughter’s blog he understands the role the internet plays in the world.
That’s like saying I know how to write a check so I understand the banking system.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:57 amThis guy is a real Rip Van Winkle. Its like he never fully recovered from his stint in the Hanoi Hilton.
July 13th, 2008 at 5:04 amMakes you wonder what McCain did in his spare time during the 26 years in the Senate.
Arizona, we feel your pain. We also have no use for the old codger, so you keep him please.
July 13th, 2008 at 9:25 amIn Campaign 2000 Bush used a metaphor in describing Gore that I think fits more perfectly here; went something like this:
“He’s an 8-track tape player in an MP3 world.”
July 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am“I’m learning to get online myself, and I’ll have that down fairly soon.”
As McCain leaps into the twenty-first century.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
July 13th, 2008 at 11:25 amGuess McCain isn’t smarter than a 5th grader.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:26 amWhat’s ironic is that this thread is screwing up IE for the entire site. Is that on purpose?
July 13th, 2008 at 11:44 amBush: Sometimes uses “the google” to look at his rhinestone cowboy ranch.
McCain – sometimes has aides pull up the drudge report so he can read it.
These are the folks regulating the industry ?
July 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pmAnd this is the guy who flew jet fighters? No wonder he crashed more than 5 times.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:18 amdae Says:
And this is the guy who flew jet fighters? No wonder he crashed more than 5 times.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:18 am
“I wonder what does this button thingie with the label Jet Shutdown in it”. Five times in a row.
And well, computer boom is only 25 years old.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:59 amThe link on the update states ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/30/campaign-manager-mccain-l_n_109954.html that his campaing manager says): McCain is a big fan of “tooling around” on the web, and is well-known for grabbing the Blackberries of reporters so that he can watch all the pretty flashing lights.
A trained ape would like to look at the blinking lights too. This isn’t exactly a high bar to get over.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:22 pmSorry, should have asked in previous post – can I take it that the dancing hamters are his favorite site ?
July 14th, 2008 at 3:22 pmNow, it’s official. John McCain is pretty much…stupid. I bet Bush can’t use a computer either. Unbelievable.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:40 pmOh, almost forget…And he’s running for President??
July 14th, 2008 at 6:44 pmwell as least he doesn’t watch p0r.n on the internets
July 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pmThe question should be do you want intelligence or four more years of a moron running this nation.
Lets see my choice is John McCain or that smart black man Barack Obama?
McCain who does not know how to use a computer but is willing to learn if we elect him – I’ll just vote for that smart black man.
My Choices are: John McCain who says the economic downturn is psychological? – Na! I’ll vote for the smart black man.
McCain who says you are better off under George Bush? – Nope I’ll vote for the smart black man.
Mc Cain who wants to continue killing more people looking for weapons of mass destruction that do not exist? – Gee! I’ll vote for the smart black man.
McCain who believes that we should stay the course but is not willing to support the people he puts in harms way. – I’ll take a chance on the smart black man.
Should I vote for a man that does not know that 9-11 was caused by Osama Bin Laden not Sedam Hussein? – Easy! I’ll vote for the smart black man.
Vote for the man who does not know if the Sunnis or Sheits are our enemies? – No way I’ll vote for the smart black man.
Vote for the man who helped put our government on the China, Saudi Arabia credit card? – Not a chance I’ll vote for the smart black man.
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