but he's out of touch. he doesn't even use a computer. now, that's just weird. the way he talks about foreign relations is scary. take a look at something as simple as their respective bumper stickers. obama's, which are varied and inclusive, vs. mccain's, which are old fashioned.
it seems to me that's what differentiates obama and mccain. obama is the candidate of inclusion, bringing everyone under the american umbrella. mccain, exclusion, only the wealthy, the business owners, the republicans. it's feed the rich in hopes that they'll feed the poor. we've seen that doesn't work very well.
mccain seems like the white man's candidate. obama is the unity candidate, where everyone is welcome.
here's another thing, age can and should bring wisdom but age and wisdom don't necessarily go together. there are plenty of ignorant, old people.
nyt: And there’s a further complication: While there is a distinction between age and belonging to a generation, the two are closely linked in this election. Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama are the faces of two very different generations, bookends of the baby boom. Mr. McCain, born in 1936, belongs to the tail end of the pre-boom period, unsettled and confused by the culture war of the 1960s (much of which played out when he was a prisoner of war). Mr. Obama is, at least in spirit, a post-boomer who has made a point of saying it’s time to move beyond the social and political clashes that defined that period (including, not incidentally, conflicts over race and gender).
“Age isn’t measured in purely chronological terms, I suspect,” said Richard Norton Smith, a historian and a scholar-in-residence at George Mason University — and a former speechwriter for Bob Dole, who was 73 when he won the Republican nomination in 1996. “For example, I don’t think it was his physical age that doomed Bob Dole, so much as the perception that he belonged, for worse and better, to an earlier generation.”
