Plouffe revealed in his memo that the reason they're going after McCain's lack of computer and typing skills is because "this election is too important and the challenges too big to spend the next 54 days talking about trivial non-issues."
Back when there was such a thing as a typewriter Indeed, when PCs first came into the office setting, the use of them by professionals was frowned on because word processing was perceived as being a glorified typewriter - and operating a typewriter positioned you as "not being professional." It was beneath your pay grade.Obviously that attitude is a thing of the past; now college students use laptops very routinely, and professionals using computers would naturally be expected to have the ability to produce highly polished reports without the need for a secretary. Now Barak Obama, young whippersnapper that he is, proudly advertises his attitude that not the use but the inability to use a keyboard is a disability for the highest level of executive in the country. But President of the United States is an office whose rank and importance rates whatever level of professional, let alone secretarial, support the nation can offer.
Operating a computer is below John McCain's pay grade.
Speaking of the difference between typewriters and computers puts me in mind of the reason for the failure of Burkett's "Killian Memo" fraud. Burkett didn't know how easy it was to tell a Microsoft Word document from a typewritten one.