He doesn’t write emails, so you’d think that John McCain’s technology advisers would at least let the public know he has tech savvy people around him. So why, then, did Douglas Holtz-Eakin, economic adviser to McCain, back out of the “Tech Smackdown” at the New American Foundation at the very last minute Thursday morning? Reed Hundt, a former FCC chairman who attended on behalf of Barack Obama, had an idea, “Doug has better things to do than answer questions about the Blackberry,” referring to Holtz-Eakin’s claim McCain “helped create” the device.
