Bush-McCain Challenge

Test of a True Man

I would love to watch John McCain and George W compete with one another in their understanding of technology. Didn’t McCain make a remark during his campaign that he doesn’t use email or something along those lines? And we can be sure that ole Georgey is missing some buttons on his iphone. Some elements of the competition:

- First, they both have to send an email. Easy enough?

- Then, a text.

- Then, they both have to successfully set up a facebook account.

- They have to check that facebook account on an iphone and post on one another’s walls.

- They have to join google + and add at least ten people to each of their circles.

- Now let’s get fancy. For the next round, both of them have to scan their butts and their faces, then mash them together in photoshop, then work successfully with an online printing website like 48hour print.com or whatever to make the picture into postcards. (Anyone who’s ever used one of those sites knows how tough they can be for a non-computer-savvy individual.)

- For the penultimate round, they each have to build an e-map of the world, including naming every country and its capital, using flash. They have to upload it to a web site that they design and name themselves.

- Finally, in at least two-thousand words, they have to describe the internet. How does it work? What enables it to run? What is a server? What is net neutrality? (They have to write at least five-hundred words on that last part alone.)

The winner gets to see Mitt Romney’s myspace page.

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Who sunk McCain’s Campaign?

Was it George W. Bush who put the death nail in the coffin for John McCain’s campaign? I would argue it wasn’t Bush but former secretary of state Colin Powell who destroyed McCain’s hope of becoming President of the United States of America.
Colin Powell who served as the Secretary of State under President George W. Bush endorsed Barack Obama weeks before the election. It made Obama appear ready to be President when someone who had vast military experience endorsed him over the proven war hero. Powell said he endorsed Obama because he saw that McCain was uncertain about how to deal with the ailing economy of the US.
Powell believes Obama is a transformational figure and he supported Obama because of the nature of his campaign. Obama’s greatest weakness was seen as his lack of national security and foreign policy experience but Powell really threw that out of the water. Though Bush gets plenty of blame for sinking McCain’s campaign, Powell should get just as much if not more credit.
John McCain was seen as the underdog throughout the campaign. There was a time after he picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate that he was ahead in the polls but not for long. Though McCain was a worthy opponent of Obama, Obama was triumphant in the end. Bush helped Obama win but Colin Powell helped John McCain lose. After Powell endorsed Obama anybody would have picked Obama to win. If Rowan Dartington chose to invest in a candidate (if they could) they would have invested in Obama.

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