Obama's devastating new attack on John McCain

Did I say "devastating"? I meant "lame."

Following a momentary break in the campaign in recognition of the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Obama is coming out swinging, or so says his campaign manager, David Plouffe: "Today is the first day of the rest of the campaign. . . . We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain's attacks and we will take the fight to him, but we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people."

Evidently, Obama thinks McCain's inability to send email is a big issue to the American people. Who is really out of touch here?

Not that it matters, but it appears McCain is far from alone in his status as a computer illiterate. Something like one in three heads of household have never created a computer document. One in five have never used the internet.

More important, exactly who is that comprise the majority of the computer illiterates? I would suspect that set includes a lot of older women, a lot of blue collar workers, and a lot of rural folk -- precisely the groups with whom Obama is having trouble connecting.

Even people who rely heavily on email and other computer tools in their daily lives are going to be turned off by the rank elitism and ageism implicit in this silly attack.

Is this really what Obama's campaign means when it talks about sharpening its attacks on John McCain?

Unbelievable.