Now, a lot of politicians can show a really poor education/interest in some fields.
I remember that a few years ago, french president J. Chirac was visiting the brand new cyber library at the Beaubourg Center in Paris (if I'm right). Well one person was showing him the possibilities of the system on a workstation while a camera team was filming a few meters away. We could hear the person explaining: "then by using the mouse you can navigate through...blah blah blah". You could see by Chirac's face that he had trouble following the explanations. Then, very faintly he asked (but the mike got it clearly enough): "The mouse? What exactly do you call a mouse?".
This was in 98 or 99
