Republican presidential candidate and former Hanoi Hilton inmate John McCain is going to release his ingenious five-year plan written by others on what on earth to do with the internet and IT and such new-fangled stuff, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The cunning plan, called 'John McCain and American Innovation' by a cackling flack, was conjured up by McCain's staff, amongst them former FCC chairman Michael Powell. Ebayette Meg Whitman, who's involved in McCain's presidential campaign, said the great plan is part of showing world and US voters just how economically savvy McCain is. Considering she's on board his campaign, it is also probable she wrote one or two sentences for the cunning plan with a name to daft to be named again. Carly Fiorina, former iron lady of Hewlett Packard, is also on board McCain's campaign trail.

The plan sees companies receiving a 10% tax break for wages on all R&D staff. Apart from subsidising R&D, McCain will also oppose any new laws on internet taxes, as well as net neutrality. Furthermore, companies offering broadband in poverty-stricken regions and rural areas can also hope for tax breaks. People literally believing in Genesis instead of complicated concepts such as evolution will thus be hauled across the digital divide, doubling the number of trolls lurking on forums and boards. Foreign workers are to be hired and brought into the country more easily as McCain's agenda foresees more visas for qualified employees.

Barack Obama's team released an agenda for him already way back in November 2007. Obama wants to create a national chief technology officer, demands cheap internet access, diversified media ownership and plans on subsidising internet services in rural and poor areas. In contrast to McCain, Obama also wants to head up the yellow brick road and put more government documents onto the net, making the murky and shady realms more transparent than they are today. McCain has to fight the fact that he doesn't seem to be tech savvy, in contrast to Obama. X