How did I miss this: John McCain doesn't use email or computers

How on earth did this slip past me:

John McCain does not use email. He doesn't use a computer. He had to be shown how to use Google. (But he does have a MySpace page. After all -- MySpace is owned by Fox News parent, News Corp.)

Admittedly, the issue has gotten almost no press. A disapproving Mother Jones video about McCain and computers was posted months ago but recieved no comments. Googling just now, I found few articles on the yawning "computer gap" between Obama and McCain. (Maybe you should call that a "computer chasm.")

Personal computers have been an inarguable presence in American life for more than two decades. They are thoroughly integrated into US and world business, educational and social life. No other technology of the past quarter century, save, perhaps the cell phone explosion, has had as much impact on everyday life.

But John McCain has to be shown how to do the simplest things on one. He can't Google. He can't use Email.

And -- Obama has seven times as many MySpace friends as McCain.


from CNN: Young Republicans worry about McCain's appeal