>>Plus I heard part of this story (http://www.here-now.org/shows/2008/08/20080814_5.asp) over lunch, in which an expert commented that he's looking forward to a new administration to be able to improve the network in the US, since the current admin hasn't been willing to invest.
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>>So comfort level with today's technology does seem to matter. A president who doesn't even know the right way to mention email seems like a risk.
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>Do we require that the president be a research scientist as well in order to qualify on setting government grants and R&D? If so, which field? Medicine in general? Bio Chem? Nuclear physics? Cancer? He sets huge aids policies but we don't require he have aids or be an expert on it... He can set policy in a number of areas and not have specific or firsthand knowledge of any of them... Do we require him to be jewish before giving $ or selling arms to Israel? What about immigration policy? Does he have to be an immigrant? Oops, he wouldn't qualify, would he?

We already have a shining example of one who knows everything one needs to know to understand that stem cell research is bad bad bad when done by tax money, but OK when done by private businesses.