# Phony Outrage **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 13, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phony-outrage/463499 "2008-09-13T23:39:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phony-outrage/463499/81 "2008-09-17T22:31:26Z")
Hey, for five and a half years, he didn’t even HAVE any hands! ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phony-outrage/463499/82 "2008-09-18T02:45:23Z")
> [@RyJae](#): > > And I have to ask, how does not using a computer make one incompetent? When 21% of the American population has never sent an email, looked at a web page does that make them incompetent? BAD AD PERIOD! > My mom knows just as many facts on the policies of the candidates (not smears facts) than a good portion of the SDMB, and a huge portion of the web “savvy” and yet she doesn’t email or look on the internet. Does that make her incompetent? It may make her old fashioned, but not incompetent. This will bite him in the ass, at first I thought it would be a bad thing when that happened. Now I can give a shit, if his supporters are like this he deserves to be shown as a change fraud. His actions and words up to this point have been about change, now he is exposed as just another politician I hope he thinks it was worth it. I dunno. I suspect that a fair amount of independent voters may actually want a president who is computer literate. I’m guessing that it might actually be a wash as to which way voters swing. Obama’s rallying the youth vote, which must be 95% computer literate. I don’t find the Obama’s statement ridiculous at all, but I have a clear bias. Also, I have an extreme prejudice against a couple who share emails. I’d want to talk to John McCain, not Cindy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phony-outrage/463499.md?page=4)