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I am biased, so everyone will jump on me as saying that a president doesn’t have to have served in the military to be commander in chief or a senator doesn’t have to be a doctor in order to pass health care legislation can go ahead and pile on.  However, I think there should be a new law passed, in addition to this one, is a law that requires congressmen to at least have an e-mail address before they pass legislation on the internet.  Right now we have a number of issues with the internet.  Last night, a bill was passed that requires all online purchases to be forwarded to the IRS.  (Potential survey of how much money they’re missing out on?)  But that’s just the one they passed last night.  Let’s look at what else: net neutrality, telecom immunity, who controls the internet, and censorship on the net, to name just a few.  This week, John McCain has been saying in some of his stump speeches that he doesn’t even have an e-mail account.  This is discouraging.  You would think at the very least he’d want one to keep track of old Air Force buddies or something like that.  It wouldn’t be so much the fact that he doesn’t have an e-mail account because there are times when I wish *I* didn’t have one but it’s the tone of his speeches where it sounds almost as though his technical ignorance is a badge of honor.  And he’s one of the ones passing this legislation so, I say, we need to force them to start using those big ‘ol internet pipes before they decide to legislate on what goes through them.