Dubya understands the internets... it runs through pipes! We need another one of him. So I say Mc Cain ftp (for the presidency) - Mona Nomura

Have to agree with Grant, Obama - Justin Yost

I don't know who did his policy brief, but I love every point of it... I hadn't been seriously considering voting for Obama till I read that policy brief - David Silvernail

LOVE this site: http://www.ontheissues.org/default... - Mona Nomura

Robert, you REALLY, REALLY need the FriendFeed comment plugin on your blog. Remove your comments entirely and replace it with that and you'll be set. You won't have to post a link every time pointing people back to FF too. :-) - Jesse Stay

and this is for teh skeptics (link to about page since who.is doesn't work): http://www.ontheissues.org/about... - Mona Nomura

Gore-oh wait that was... - Mark Forman

Obama. Evidence: http://youtube.com/watch... . It's an hour, but make time to watch this. The difference between McCain and Obama couldn't be more stark. - John Craft

Uh... this is so obvious it's silly! :*) - Susan Beebe

Don't really care what their "tech" policy is. I'm more concerned on who will control spending and not add more social programs for everyone else to pay for. - Spencer

Spencer: you could have just said you like McCain better. :-) - Robert Scoble

Chuck Baldwin - Jim Stewart

McCain, the man who admits he's computer illiterate, has a tech policy? - Mike Hussein Cohen

McCain, I've been told knows about the Internet and if ellected he might even look at it. - paul mooney

Do you think Obama came up with his tech policy all on his own, Mike? We talked about this on L33t Tech last weekend. Neither one of these guys can be bothered to write their own speeches. Do you think they have a cogent tech policy on their own without advisors? No! Both their tech policies came from advisory panels. It has nothing to do with whether McCain knows how to use the Internet. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark - Most things in Washington involve advisory panels of some sort. Wonder who's on these ones? - Tom Landini

Tom: That's the real question we should be asking, particularly if we're going to make decisions based on things aside from the candidate's hair style. Otherwise we should just flip a coin on election day. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Gore. Oh, wait... never mind... - Mark Dykeman

Ha, check out the web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch... [guest stars Al Gore and internet thru pipes] - Brian Carter from NoiseRiver

I don't even feel like this is a real question... seriously, I'm thinking that Robert asked it just to drive home the point of how disparate the two candidates' depth of thought on tech issues really are. Which isn't a bad thing, I suppose the more people understand Obama's (or at least his campaign's) level of tech literacy, the better. - Harish V

Tech understanding and tech POLICY are radically different. Obama might "get" how to use Myspace - but frankly how does that help when he is not really inclined to help tech companies and the free market in general? I don;t need my president to know what Twitter is - I need him to understand that private industry drives innovation and not see successful companies as a bottomless piggy bank to raid for social programs. - Soulhuntre

RON PAUL!!!! Oh, c'mon... I'm surprised I'm the first person to say it, even if it's absolutely not true. :) - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

Obama by mile and by many many pages of detailed and very smart tech policies. In particular a cabinet level CIO with a priority for increasing government transparency and citizen review and input is particularly good. Also smart patent reform and much more. - Shannon Clark

obama by a long mile. McCain's camp simply does not make this a priority since his base probably is as Luddite-level as he is. Just look at the web design philosophies of each camp. Obama uses an XHTML/CSS layout with social media features and his loves Twitter and web 2.0. McCain's crew seems to like the low-bidding web contracts so you get a mishmash of meh tech. - Glenn Batuyong

How could anyone even suggest McCain has a better tech policy? "He's aware of the internet." That's the policy. That and "Science BAD!" He's all Frankenstein on science and tech... - iTad

Is there really much of a question about this? How can it not be Obama? - Cathryn Hrudicka

I officially can't weigh in on this. I suggest people look at who the candidates have surrounded themselves with as tech advisers, and make your choice from there. - Andrew Feinberg

McCain is aware of internet. He thinks it is something where he can bomb countries with a click of a mouse. War monger!! - Krishnan Subramanian

Yes, there really is a question about this. Even just lookign at the online technology each is using, Obama is starting to look bad. Did no one in their campaign see the problem of (Liek Kerry) letting extreme blogs be hosted on their sites? Is that really a good idea? As for tec policies again,t he tech industry is a capital one - and Obama is definitely not capital friendly. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Obama... I don't know whether his policy is better or even exists, but at least he knows technology exists! - nick carrasco

oi. Even after everyone weighed in with the "look at the advisory panel" stuff, we have six comments here supporting Obama based on nothing but the fact they like his suit better than McCain's. We have ignorant analysis of McCain supporters, ridiculous analogies to "war-mongering," and someone who admits they don't even know, but they think Obama is better. Yet somehow, McCain supporters are stereotyped as the uninformed ones? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins