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September 15th, 2009 by Peter SlutskyVisit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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Last night, President Obama addressed the country on his plan to reform the health care system. Here’s the full video:
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Via Ben Smith:
Remember a while back when the New York Times printed a story that planted seeds of a McCain affair with lobbyist Vicki Iseman? Well, for the first time, Iseman is speaking out about the (non) affair, the lawsuit that followed the story and her opinion of the New York Times. Here’s the video from the CBS’s The Early Show.
Last night, Sens. McCain and Obama met for the Al Smith Dinner in New York City. Pretty funny stuff. Here’s the video series. Enjoy.
Obama – Part 1:
Obama – Part 2:
McCain – Part 1:
McCain – Part 2:
I will never get tired of Terry McAuliffe.
via TPM.
A quick history lesson: The first electronic computer, ENIAC, was built in 1946 when John McCain was ten years old. The first mainframes came in the 1950s when McCain was in his twenties and by the 1970s, when the first microcomputers came on the market, he was attending the National War College. In 1981 IBM released the first PC and John McCain was getting ready to run for Congress. In 2000, the first time John McCain ran for president, we’d already seen the rise of Microsoft, eBay, Amazon, Napster and the tech boom.
It’s now 2008, John McCain is running for president again, and he freely admits that he does not know how to use computers. While he may occasionally do “a Google” it’s his wife who apparently has to actually do the clicking and typing for him.
Perhaps I’m being ageist, or simply ignoring as a computer capable person myself how many people still struggle with computers. But in the 21st century, isn’t it perhaps important for the leader of the free world to know how to use a computer?