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Bush the first damaged himself badly by being amazed at a scanner in a supermarket. Vice Presidents don't do their own shopping obviously, but it is tech that everyday people come in contact with. The latest fad in the US is self-checkouts where you do all the scanning yourself. Wonder how Bush would have handled that?

Australia also had Richard Alston as telecommunications minister for a while. That cabinet opening needed a 'luddites need not apply' clause.

More recently there was the Senate of Alaska talking his way through what the internet was ie [paraphrasing] 'dump trucks and tubes with emails that get stuck in waterslides'

Makes politicians easy to mock.