i couldn't have put it better myself...

from the s-s records website's front page...

The hacking of Sarah Palin's email made me think of how behind the Republican candidates are on this internet thing. Here you have a vice president candidate who carries on public business on a private email account so that she can do it all in secret; but lacks the knowledge or insight into the fact that by doing so she opens herself up to an easy hack. Forget that the national security implications for a minute, what does she have to arm herself against bad advice regarding the internet, from lobbyists and staff? If she cant get her own personal security together and is willing to place Alaska's privacy in the hands of Yahoo, how is she going to be effective on these issues on a national basis?

Even worse, McCain can't operate a fucking computer. He has never surfed the net. He has never done online banking or paid a bill on line. Other than from a lobbyist I bet he has no idea what paypal does. Given that the internet carries a substantial amount of US commerce and that it is almost impossible to do business without it, don't you think the president should have a working knowledge of it? Should he or she at least be able to receive and send email? Really, the internet has pretty much changed the way we communicate, do business, make music, wack off, so many different things. Only the television and the automobile are the two consumer used inventions that have had such an impact. For someone not to have a working familiarity with the internet in 2008 is like a person never having driven in a car in 1940 or watched TV in 1970. Fine if that is your personal choice but what fool would elect a president ignorant about automobiles and TVs when they had become commonalities in every day life? ---S.S.