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McCain is now 6 days older than the last time I said he was too old

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This thing is getting bigger, rather than going away. I sort of mentioned a few days ago that I thought that McCain was a tad old to be running for President, especially because he can’t use the Internet, and barely uses a computer.  It seems that he is unusually out of touch, even for an old fart.  Unlike McCain:

“About three-quarters of white, college-educated men age over 65 use the Internet,”

That’s from an AP article on Wired that has (gasp!) actual quotes from people even older than McCain who rely on the internet daily. I just want to be clear that this isn’t ageism, you can choose to not participate in the Internet, but I think that also disqualifies you from leading the most powerful nation in the world of people who do participate.

Here’s hoping they don’t elect this clown, he is to the Internet what Bush is to pretzels.

Breaking News: Old Fart too old to be President

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Apparently some Americans think that McCain is a little too old to be President (he’s 71, will turn 72 before the elections are over).  Just a tad too old.  Okay, maybe really really ancient.

It seems that the topic keeps coming up during his campaign, and it’s certainly not going to go away.

In fact, some people are rather transfixed by it.  This website keeps a rather lengthy list of things that McCain is older than:

Six-packs, automatic transmissions and the American Express card were all introduced after he was born – not to mention computers, which McCain admits he doesn’t use.

That quote is from an article that examines some of the numbers behind this issue.

Overall, 38 per cent said “too old” describes McCain somewhat or very well….

Personally, it’s the computer comment above that would worry me most, and not just because I’m a geek.  I just have to think that someone who doesn’t even use a computer in this day and age is not really qualified to have any global power, whatsoever.  I mean I don’t expect him to be an expert, but come on, most grandmothers his age can check their email.  That’s a pretty grim outlook in my mind.  How will he make intelligent decisions in any capacity in the globalized world today?  Sure, he will have expert advisors and such, but I think it reveals a certain “out-of-touch”ness to his attitudes that would be a disaster if he actually won.

My 2 cents.

**** Update:

Apparently I’m not the only one with these kinds of crackpot ideas.  The Russian President just issued a warning to all of his elected officials to brush up on their computer skills, or they could be out of a job.

President Dmitry Medvedev says the government doesn’t hire people who can’t read and write, and computer literacy today is the same.

So there you go.  I completely agree with basic computer literacy as a minimum for most jobs these days, even if you are swinging a hammer you need to be able to interface with the rest of us.

Three kids steal a car

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No, not our kids.

Three kids from New York apparently tried to steal a car from a trailer park (undoubtedly one they called home – was that over the Snarkyville town line?).  It seems that the collective age of 33 wasn’t enough to actually qualify for a driver’s license, and they basically played bumper cars when the cops showed up:

Spooked by the emergency lights of arriving troopers, the girls accelerated, crashed into a vehicle parked in a driveway and then veered across a road into a trailer at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday.

The subtext to note here is the fact that these three were out and about on their own at 2:30am on a Thursday.

Some good parenting going on behind the scenes, methinks.  They were probably sent out to get Dad some smokes and got tired of walking…