> Subject: Garrison Keillor comments on McCain
>
> And it's an amazing country where an Arizona multimillionaire can
> attack a Chicago South Sider as an elitist and hope to make it
> stick. The Chicagoan was brought up by a single mom who had big
> ambitions for him, and he got scholarshipped into Harvard Law and
> was made president of the law review, all of it on his own hook,
> whereas the Arizonan is the son of an admiral and was ushered into
>
> Annapolis though an indifferent student, much like the Current
> Occupant, both of them men who are very lucky that their fathers
> were born before they were. The Chicago! an, who grew up without a
> father, wrote a book on his own, using a computer. The Arizonan
> hired people to write his for him. But because the Chicagoan can
> say what he thinks and make sense and the Arizona n cannot do that
> for more than 30 seconds at a time, the old guy is hoping to portray
> the skinny guy as arrogant.
>
> Good luck with that, sir.
>
> Meanwhile, the casual revelation last month that Mr. McCain has
> never figured out how to use a computer and has never sent e-mail
> or Googled is rather startling. It's like admitting that you've
> never clipped your own toenails or that you didn't know that
> toothpaste comes out of a tube because your valet always did that
> for you. It's like being amazed at the sight of a supermarket
> scanner. What world does Mr. McCain live in? Where does he keep
> his sense of curiosity? My 94-year-old mother has sent e-mail! .
& gt;
> Does somebody plan to show him how it's done and will they explain
> to him what "LOL" means?
>