Disqualified

John McCain admits in an interview with the Times that he is firmly stuck in the early 20th century.

Q: But do you go on line for yourself?

Mr. McCain: They go on for me. 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 – including going to my daughter’s blog first, before anything else.

Q: Do you use a blackberry or email?

Mr. McCain: No

Mark Salter: He uses a BlackBerry, just ours.

Mr. McCain: I use the Blackberry, but I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.

“I am learning to go online myself”. “I don’t e-mail”. WTF? Now I grant you that because I work in IT, maybe my expectations of computer literacy are skewed a tad higher than the average but come on. I would not hire anyone in a professional capacity that was not competent with basic modern technologies like e-mail and the Web. And that goes double (triple, infinity?) for someone that wishes to be President. Seriously, we are talking minimum requirements here people.