Additionally, I think it takes a real leap in logical deduction to see that the ad is the mocking McCain’s war injuries. It is not the fact that McCain may or may not be physically able to check his email, it’s that technology isn’t even on his horizon. Wired.com directly quotes McCain saying:

“I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself,” McCain told the New York Times in an interview that appeared Sunday. “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.”

Even so, McCain bluntly admits, “I don’t e-mail. I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.”

The point is that when it comes to your own personal lifestyle choice, you can choose to use the internet or not, and, ultimately, the decision only affects you. But as a political candidate (and one that wants to be President, at that) in today’s world, where everyone is using this technology, where it is used extensively by the companies that we seek to regulate or subsidize, where new media is considered by some to be part of the complicated answer to our failing public education system, where it is considered an integral part of the training that would help millions to get off of welfare, and it plays a huge part in the war on terror and the intelligence communicty, you need to have a working knowledge of the technology. You need to consider the technology an important part of modern life or else you’re not acknowledging the existence of all the tools in the proverbial toolbox that could help to fix our issues.

If you’re saying that he could appoint people who do know about the internet, I’m not entirely comfortable with him deferring to people on real, important issues merely because he’s doesn’t personally find it necessary to incorporate the internet into his everyday activities. Yes, I agree that the president doesn’t send the emails on behalf of his office, but he does send some, and I think you’re looking at this far too microscopically in order to prove a point that is, at best, very difficult to get reach.

Two final points in response to expatforobama — 1) Obama’s tax policies do not add up at all because there are not enough “rich people” to pay for his incremental spending; 2) Obama’s trade policies and in particular his antipathy toward free trade, taken together with his plans to tax capital formation punitively, raise a very troubling parallel to the beginning of the 1930s: then-President Hoover’s response to a weakening economy was to raise taxes in order to balance the budget and get Congress to pass the Smoot-Hawley tariff that devastated international trade. These two measures turned the 1929-30 recession into the Great Depression. For these reasons, Obama’s economic understanding is woefully deficient.

We can plainly see McCain is more than willing to pander to the mentally unstable with his vice presidential pick. That seems to be his base.