A couple weeks ago, at the Personal Democracy Forum, one of McCain's aides told us his boss was "aware of the internet" and our good friend, Tracy Russo explained why that was not good enough. You have to watch.
Now, John McCain is telling us that he is learning about the internets. He watches Drudge. So, my parents are the same age as McCain, but they didn't seem to have the same steep learning curve when it came getting online. This guy wants to run America and he's stumped by his computer. That's a little scary:
He said, ruefully, that he had not mastered how to use the Internet and relied on his wife and aides like Mark Salter, a senior adviser, and Brooke Buchanan, his press secretary, to get him online to read newspapers (though he prefers reading those the old-fashioned way) and political Web sites and blogs.
“They go on for me,” he said. “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. 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.”
Asked which blogs he read, he said: “Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously. Everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics.”
At that point, Mrs. McCain, who had been intensely engaged with her BlackBerry, looked up and chastised her husband. “Meghan’s blog!” she said, reminding him of their daughter’s blog on his campaign Web site. “Meghan’s blog,” he said sheepishly.
