I was over perusing Instapundit to see what's happening. I missed most everything yesterday due to work, but there's always Saturday morning (after Starbucks) to catch up.

I ran across this post which is long with numerous links. The first link in the post is to yet another link filled post yesterday. Both of them pointing out the Obama campaign's focus of the moment... Wait for it...

John McCain can't send email!!! He doesn't get online much!!!

Oh the horror! How could this be?

As I was poking through the links, reading about John McCain's war injuries making it impossible for him to type, thus taking away, early on, the only way it was possible for a person to be "online"*** something occurred to me, something everyone seems to be missing.

Of course the general thrust of the argument is that McCain is an old fogy who is out of touch with the modern world. The problem with that argument is - it proves nothing of the sort. It's like saying the CEO of a company is unable to direct things to make the company more profitable because he doesn't sit in the factory building widgets.

What do they expect McCain to do with email? Oh how about this:

Vlad you dipweed, get the hell out of Georgia now. How could you be such an asshole? Take your f*&^ing tanks and go home or we'll bring in our tanks and stomp your collective asses!

Now that would go over very well, don't you think.  Or maybe they think he should twitter all his followers in government telling them what he's up to right now.

Long day, have to deal with that idiot Pelosi woman.

Right.  Let's strive for a little bit of sense. The President is supposed to be directing the country.  By all accounts McCain is fully aware of the internet as a campaign tool and has used it well.  He does not sit down and put it together himself, he hires people who are experts to do the job.  Isn't that what the top level executives are supposed to do?  See an opportunity and find the people who can help him use it.  Or is he supposed to stop everything, roll up his sleeves and do all the coding himself? 

Is Obama trying to tell us if he gets into office, that he'll be sending out emails to his staff to give them orders?  That he'll spend a few hours every morning perusing Drudge or Kos or one of the other online sites to find out "what's going on in the world"?  Now there's a scary thought.

I want a chief executive who will be directing the overall picture.  Not someone who is worried about the details. Detail people micro-manage projects into the ground. 

You may be asking about my title to the post - where does the "milk" enter the picture?  Well, right here.  This is exactly the same silliness we get when reporters ask a candidate "do you know how much a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread cost?"

It is an irrelevant question.   It tells us nothing about their leadership skills and whether or not they can direct a government - nothing.  It only tells us that they either do or do not shop in a grocery store.  (It may not even tell us that because even though I buy bread - I don't ever remember the price between grocery visits and I haven't bought a gallon of milk in years)

So let's get a grip.  McCain, like Obama knows about the internet.  He directs people to use the internet to help his campaign.  If the Obama campaign wants to show that McCain is out of touch with the modern world - they need to come up with something else.  They won't but they should. 

However, I'm used to politicians and reporters wasting my time with irrelevant nonsense.  That is one never changing constant in every campaign.

***Someone get McCain a Soldier's Angels voice activated laptop!  I think he qualifies!

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