Technophobia - the sign of a born leader?

 It scares me to think that the potential leader of the free-world has so little grasp of one of the major changes in our world in the last 20 years.  It makes me afraid that he isn't on top of other things going on in our world as well.  This of course could be a very unfair criticism but ignorance is never a good thing to boast about.

"QUOTE but ignorance is never a good thing to boast about. END QUOTE

I don't think the issue is about "ignorance."  Mastering the Internet is not the equivalent of wisdom any more than buying thirty books on the French language means one is fluent in French.

The amount of information one possesses is not directly related to the ability one has of leading.  By analogy a sniper's expertise is not determined by how many bullets the magazine in his gun holds.

I'd bet that there are very few significant events that McCain does not know about.  Also, I don't know if you have ever flown in a fighter plane (I have not), but you have to master a significant amount of information to stay in the air.  Annapolis is a very difficult University to get through. 

As the article points out, Tony Blair did not have a cell phone the entire time he was leading (and doing so effectively) a major world power.

I wouldn't make too much of McCain's lack of interest in My Space. 

QUOTE: "By the way he got shot down so how well could he fly anyway."

ROFLMBO!  You owe me the $100 deductible for having all the mocha I just blew out of my news cleaned out of my laptop. 

(On second thought, the laugh was worth $100.  We'll call it even.)