I guess this is the new politics. Here is Barack Obama's new ad:
And why doesn't John McCain use computers or email? From the Boston Globe, March 4, 2000 (HT, Jonah Goldberg).
McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan - Ted Williams is his hero - but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.
Why doesn't John McCain use computers? Because he physically can't due to war injuries. Way to go, Obama camp. As Jonah puts it:
In a similar vein I guess it's an outrage that the blind governor of New York David Patterson doesn't know how to drive car. After all, transportation issues are pretty important. How dare he serve as governor while being ignorant of what it's like to drive a car.
Update: Forbes magazine, via Jonah:
In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits.
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