Who says John McCain is old and out of touch? Barack Obama may fist-bump his wife, but McCain can namedrop the hip new search engine that all the kids are using:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain joked on Monday that Google, the popular Internet search engine, had made investigating his list of potential candidates a little bit easier.

“You know, basically it’s a Google,” he said to laughter at a fund-raising luncheon when asked how the selection process was going. “What you can find out now on the Internet — it’s remarkable.”

“[I]t’s a Google”? Really? I’m pretty sure no one under 60 talks like that. It’s one step removed from Ted Stevens’s “a series of tubes”.

Update 6/10 11:32 AM: Matthew Yglesias links, prompting one of his commenters to remind us that President Bush had a similarly awkward-sounding reference to “the Google” back in 2006:

HOST: I’m curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?

BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see — I’ve forgot the name of the program — but you get the satellite, and you can — like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.