Gideon Rachman on John McCain’s Tweets

This seems like an unfortunate slap at peasants to me:

But I cannot say Mr McCain’s twitters fill me with regret that he is not sitting in the Oval Office. They seem to be a mixture of sports scores and self-congratulation. He crowed recently about the number of followers he has on Twitter: “800,000!!! Think we can make it to one million?” Some of the senator’s tweets make him sound like a peasant. On May 19th he said: “Meeting with Dr Kissinger – the smartest man in the world.”

It’s the ideal medium for a politician who loves to make his opinions known, but doesn’t appear to have any knowledge of or interest in any area of public policy.