robert_cringely
Columnist

Two chicks in every pot

analysis
Mar 30, 20071 min

It's the digital equivalent of kissing babies and shaking hands; candidates for national office now have to prove they're "down with the kids" by having their own YouTube clips and MySpace pages. It's also true that most if not all are completely clueless about technology. So it's not terribly surprising that Senator John McCain's MySpace page got hacked earlier this week. It was a clever, gentle hack: for a bri

It’s the digital equivalent of kissing babies and shaking hands; candidates for national office now have to prove they’re “down with the kids” by having their own YouTube clips and MySpace pages. It’s also true that most if not all are completely clueless about technology. So it’s not terribly surprising that Senator John McCain’s MySpace page got hacked earlier this week. It was a clever, gentle hack: for a brief but memorable period the presidential hopeful came out in favor of gay marriage (but only of the “Susan Sarandon meets Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger” variety). McCain’s handlers quickly wiped the page, but not before it and the hack were captured for posterity. Now that’s one platform I can get behind.