"Pundits were surprised by McCain's clumsy rhetoric, by his lack of teleprompter skills, and by the fact that he stood in front of an ugly green backdrop. "Content better than delivery," said Karl Rove. "John McCain," said Mort Kondracke of "Roll Call," "sounded old." A messenger delivered a handwritten note from McCain to Obama's Chicago offices inviting the Democratic presidential nominee to a series of Goldwater-Kennedy-style debates. Bill Burton, an aide to Obama, told the messenger, "You know, you could have just emailed this."
-- From the Harper's email news round-up, which is still one of the funnier news round-ups going. Which might be damming with faint praise, come to think of it.
BTW - the Gen-Xer in me just wants to say, "Goldwater? Kennedy? You mean Ted, right?"
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Wired is doing a poll right now on whether it matters if a US pres is computer illiterate.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/mccain-reps-com.html
Results stand at 90% as I write this. Not surprising considered that the audience is Wired.
But seriously, my mom is about McCain's age. Email challenges her level of computer literacy. I try to imagine her with access to "the button." It frightens me.
Posted by: Trish | June 27, 2008 at 09:43 AM
"A messenger delivered a handwritten note from McCain"
That's a damned lie. It was a cuneiform tablet.
Posted by: matthew | June 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM