McCain’s tweets are rather intersting. Sometimes it is about what news show he will appear on. Today it was, “steve nash hurt? amare too! what now for the suns!”

You can follow him on Twitter here.

Apparently Chinese hackers are responsible for a number of attacks on U.S. government sites. But instead of being sponsored by the Chinese government, they operate independently and out of a sense of national pride. To them, hacking into U.S. sites is how they can do their part to take on the American enemy.    In addition to the government, corporations, who would be similar targets for attacks, need to get their cybersecurity in order. And this presidential campaign, which has made the Internet a central hub for fundraising and the dissemination of information, makes American web sites a prime target.

The fact that these hackers are acting independently makes them more dangerous, I believe, than if they were Chinese government surrogates. They will likely be more brazen, more willing to take on higher-level targets, and difficult to locate.

The hacking looks like it’s accelerating into a full-fledged cyber war. Recently a few e-Minutemen are taking the fight back to the Chinese. This should be fun to watch. More so than another dry 16 days of Olympics coming soon to Beijing.

The GOP should get credit for taking advantage of the web and making inroads to those who may be turned off by politics. The Internet continues to change the way people interact to political issues and gives voters a chance to support their cause. Unfortunately, at times this leads to things like a Ron Paul Convention.

Below is a sample from his greatest hits: a speech where he complains fossil fuels are “ruining our country.” It’s one thing to argue we need to reduce our oil usage, it’s quite another to say they are bringing about our impending national doom.

He tossed his pledge to campaign within public spending limits. It was back and forth on how soon he would get troops out of Iraq. He sided with the conservative members of the Supreme Court in agreeing with the decision overturning the D.C. handgun ban and opposing the reversal of a Louisiana law making child rapists eligible for the death penalty.

Then there was the cardinal sin of all: agreeing to continue and even expand President Bush’s policy of doling out federal money to faith-based charities.

While some of those views would be welcome to those on the right, it sounds eerily like someone who is a calculating politician trying to maneuver his rhetoric to appeal to the middle. Which is nothing unusual, but the problem is that is not who Obama has claimed he would be. He was supposed to be the “change candidate,” offering a transcendent view of politics and promising to change all the rules.

The problem is such high idealism seldom pans into reality because politics is, well, politics. It does not mean we should cynically assume that all politicians are evil and corrupt. But any who offer to transform politics or offer a generic slogan with the word “change” in it is unlikely to, in all reality, alter things on a messianic level.

Clark’s barb was brainless not so much because it insulted McCain, but because it was a weak criticism in the light of who Clark is supporting. It would be one thing to criticize McCain if his opponent were, say, Dwight Eisenhower. Then one MIGHT be able to argue that McCain’s “executive experience” (by the way, thanks Rudy for that phrase. Now everyone must be held to the standard of being a mayor) was not on par with his opponent. But he’s running against Obama – who has hardly faced the kind of foreign affairs issues that McCain has led on. It’s especially an odd criticism coming from Clark, whose major justification for running for president was his record as a U.S. general – which was not exactly perfect.

So Clark is going to argue McCain lacks experience when he has endorsed Obama, a freshman U.S. Senator?  What next – McCain should have spent more time in the run down parts of Phoenix taking on slum lords to have gained better leadership skills? It’s another mindless Washington barb from a politician with an agenda.

Perhaps the knocks against McCain’s age and temper have failed to stick. So Team Obama has moved on to other arguments; his five years in the Hanoi Hilton don’t qualify him, he didn’t lead a large enough squadron, he should have avoided that missile that shot him down, etc.

Expect the barrage to continue. As more try to get a piece of Obama, they will look to do it by digging into McCain. Fortunately those years as a POW that didn’t qualify him to be president strengthened him to handle empty rhetoric.