Earlier this evening, McCain told Brian Williams that if he's running for Bush's third term, Obama's running for Carter's second. Right wing blogs have already started to pick up the Carter line, though it does beg the question of who the sitting President is and why McCain's stuck on the late seventies.
Actually, why's the conservative movement stuck in the late seventies?
There's that dynamic again: who's looking forward and who's looking back?
Don't forget that during the Republican primary, which took place some time in the Harding administration, McCain admitted to being computer illiterate and relying on his wife to use one. This evening, when asked about his VP search, the Senator grasped for a contemporary reference by saying, "well, basically, it's a Google," whatever the hell that means. Joking aside, IT and the information industry are huge parts of our economy and as we've ceded industrial capacity to the developing world, we've done so under the assumption that technology and new industries would help replace those jobs. So now, as the economy is faltering, the Republican party has put forward a guy who's stuck in the past, doesn't know the first thing about IT even from a user standpoint and, by the by, has admitted that, "the issue of economics is not something I've understood ad well as I should. So, you know... help's on the way.
