Obama Says iPad, iPod, Xbox, PS3 are Distractions

[dmk2000]

"Or can we trust dmk2000, who is looking for any (even miniscule) way to discredit a president whom he is obviously biased against?"

To (Yoder54) For ones, I’m not a president of USA, therefore, I do not act as a role model for population. Second, I can think for myself and can draw conclusions about behavior of person based on actions of this particular person. Since I have noticed particular trend in the past year of our president, providing misleading information, I have obviously formulated my opinion to the point where I myself cannot any longer blindly believe in any information provided by our president.
Is my reasoning has been clarified to your satisfaction “Yoder54”?

 

[dmk2000]

[citation][nom]dmk2000[/nom]"Or can we trust dmk2000, who is looking for any (even miniscule) way to discredit a president whom he is obviously biased against?"To (Yoder54) For ones, I’m not a president of USA, therefore, I do not act as a role model for population. Second, I can think for myself and can draw conclusions about behavior of person based on actions of this particular person. Since I have noticed particular trend in the past year of our president, providing misleading information, I have obviously formulated my opinion to the point where I myself cannot any longer blindly believe in any information provided by our president.Is my reasoning has been clarified to your satisfaction “Yoder54”?[/citation]
To (Yoder54) For ones, I’m not a president of USA, therefore, I do not act as a role model for population. Second, I can think for myself and can draw conclusions about behavior of person based on actions of this particular person. Since I have noticed particular trend in the past year of our president, providing misleading information, I have obviously formulated my opinion to the point where I myself cannot any longer blindly believe in any information provided by our president.
Is my reasoning has been clarified to your satisfaction “Yoder54”?
Yoder54-I’m thereby sorry for my mistake, this reply was never intended for you.
My apology again.

 

[boogalooelectric]

People are commenting like these Ipod's Ipad's, netbooks, and all that other superfluous garbage is stuff that everyone NEEDS. You are all acting like he is asking you to chop off an arm or your sexual organ (which may be the case for many of you judging by the comments).

But the bottom line is just ten years ago cell phones were a luxury item not a must have, we didnt have a I pad and we survived. Now people are conditioned to believe that we NEED this crap all day every day.

Hell the people who lived without an Ipad designed and developed one so imagine that, imagine the skunk works designing the SR-71 with a slide ruler and drafting table and barely working calculator. Oh wait many of you cannot because you cannot imagine a world without being able to access Perez Hilton while your diving seventy five miles an hour on the freeway and almost take my life when cutting me off because you were too distracted to look up from news about Kim Kardashian.

The point is all the president is asking you to do is use your damn brain and turn off the damn devices one and while. Maybe instead go for a walk to shed fifty of the four hundred pounds you gained while living on face book twenty four seven, or paint, go throw a football, bird watch, read a book, turn off Fox news, LIVE for once. DO SOMETHING instead of sit there and take pot shots at a guy who had the balls to call you out and that is what he is doing and the people who are taking this really badly know it and are affected by its truth, the truth hurts sometimes. But that what I am saying is too much to ask of people who cant even read an articly correctly. I know I will get flamed for this but screw it there are a lot of douche bags who post on this board and the need a wake up call.

 

[harlequin6791]

[citation][nom]Sabiancym[/nom]Read the whole speech. He talks about the amount the misinformation out there and that all of it because a distraction from the actual truth. He then says that education will help filter through the bs out there and get to the truth.It was a speech at a university. He was saying that having a bit of knowledge will allow you to see through the lies posted on these moronic blogs. Because a lot of idiotic people take what they see on some random blog as fact.Some of those people are posting in this comment section...[/citation]

I understand what he was saying and I DID read the whole thing.. but thank you for making the assumption like many others have that people haven't read it.

Ok here is my point tho. Who is he or the administration for that matter to decree what is truth and what is fiction. Of course they're going to preach this hypocrisy at an educational institution. Next to the Gov't the educational system is the next most powerful organization in shaping the country. Where do you think most of their indoctrinated followers are farmed from?

Putting political views aside tho, you do not give any one person or organization the power to filter what they deem to be the truth. Because shockingly anything that does not fall within their agenda will be classified as lies. If you can not see the outrageous potential of absolute power there then you are blinder than a person with out eyes. When has any government ever been a truthful one?

Not to mention it goes against the freedom of speech. Leave it to the readers to chose who they want to get their information from. They don't need a president saying who is right and who is wrong... it's not his place to do so. I'm sure if there was state run news on the Obama Channel.. it would only speak the truth (sarcasm)

As for the most humanitarian president.. Seriously? The whole helath care thing is a sham. Not to mention that it strips the freedom of choice from those that don't want health care and makes them criminals. It takes from what should be a charitable thing and makes it a law. It should never be a law that I have to be charitable.. sorry it's not your right nor the government's right to make me a better or worse person as they have done the past year. In fact forcing me to donate money to the needy makes me less prone to donate on my own as I have done in the past. Not to mention the means that they passed the bill through due to overwhelming opposition by the people. Ya real humanitarian as he removed my rights whether I wanted to invoke them or not. They were still mine. But now the majority of the nation's right of choice have been sacrificed for the minority. Wonderful.. real humanitarian. There was other ways but this gives them the largest power based on new dependents of their services.

There is no.. nor should there be a RIGHT to insurance. I do agree tho that there should be affordable insurance but that's not the government's place to provide it. Anyways this is beside the matter.

 

[mrboycom]

Easy! answer is, Obama may be against technology. Maybe true or maybe not. This is the problem with president. The fact that some of them only cares about economic.

 

[jecastej]

To me all this recent technology disruption is about personal and social matters and not about technology.

As a personal opinion and on the general concern awareness from President Obama I respect his opinion. But I disagree how he presents his arguments. His is clearly talking about experiences he does not have and maybe he is not willing to give them a better look but he is mainly talking about the disruption all this portable technology may be creating in a business, government or education environments. However I see the same disruption going on with the Blackberry and smart phones and I will never blame on the devices or the technology. Manny times I am in a meeting or a conference or inside a car and manny people are most of the time looking at their tiny screens. You are wrong if you assume they are always paying attention.

 

[Guest]

"It's called a Democracy, whoever gets the most votes, gets in."

Thanks for showing that you know absolutely nothing about the voting process in America. That you know even less about 'humaitarianism' and healthcare while trying to make some hackneyed relavency linking the two is just icing on the cake.

You don't vote for the candidate; you vote for the electors. It's called an electoral college for a reason.

Please quit commenting on things you know nothing about and actually crack open a book, read a bill (like healthcare; hey, you'll be more knowledgeable about it than our president who still doesn't know what he signed) and educate yourself since public school (another 'humanitarian' government venture) obviously failed you.

 

[ErrolDC]

there have been many nights i could have spent studying for my CCNP, but i chose to pick up my PS3 controller.
the president is right now. we have so many distractions on so many levels that our productivity (both in the work place and outside of the workplace) is suffering..

 

[Hellbound]

Lmao... The Xbox, the PS3 and the iPad are not distractions. They are items that entertain us.....just like the TV, the radio, going to the movies and concerts.

The more I hear this guys speak, the more I think he is an idiot. What now, a distraction tax?

 

[Honis]

Wasn't there a big hoopla about him being hip and down with the times during the election? So much so that there were no less than 3 news articles on Toms about a possible siting of him not using an iPod of some sort while working out?

 

[boogalooelectric]

@ jecastej

You make a good point but if you read come of these comments. There are people who cannot apparently live without their blackberry, kindle, GPS, Ifad etc.

There are some people who will just never get it. They just cannot imagine even turning off their cell phone for a few minutes or two hours during a movie in a theater.

The caustic irrational responses and overt defensiveness posted are indicative of people who cannot see that these technological devices are in many cases stifling their mental, social and physical development and are willing to defend their actions almost to the point of violence (yes some of these posts seem that way to me)

I liken it to a heroin junkie or alcoholic who is in denial while they are shooting up or drinking a gallon of Ralph's brand of cheap vodka.

Me; "You have a technology addiction."

Person who wont look up from their smart phone: "huh"

Me: "I said you have a technology addiction,"

Person who wont look up from their smart phone: "huh"

Me putting my hand over the smart phone screen: "You have a technology addiction."

@ jecastej

You make a good point but if you read come of these comments. There are people who cannot apparently live without their blackberry, kindle, GPS, Ifad etc.

There are some people who will just never get it. They just cannot imagine even turning off their cell phone for a few minutes or two hours during a movie in a theater.

The caustic irrational responses and overt defensiveness posted are indicative of people who cannot see that these technological devices are in many cases stifling their mental, social and physical development and are willing to defend their actions almost to the point of violence (yes some of these posts seem that way to me)

I liken it to a heroin junkie or alcoholic who is in denial while they are shooting up or drinking a gallon of Ralph's brand of cheap vodka.

Me; "You have a technology addiction."

Person who wont look up from their smart phone: "huh"

Me: "I said you have a technology addiction,"

Person who wont look up from their smart phone and is now angry and trying to punch me so they can finish their text: "I am not and get your hand off my Phone or I will kill you."

 

[mlopinto2k1]

Oh lord please... PLEASE enlighten these people that they live in a country that has let them live freely with freedom of speech and religion without some insane bomber coming to destroy his mosque because he is praying or maybe because he DOESN'T pray.. please WAKE THEM THE F*&K UP!!

 

[leo2kp]

Well now Obama's just asking for trouble, telling everyone to use information for empowerment

 

[nebun]

fucking idiot of a president...these distractions is what keep up the american economy. Mr. PRESIDENT YOUR CELL PHONE IS A FREAKING DISTRACTION.

 

[truehighroller]

They are just simply trying to stop what they see coming, a revolution. Try you may but people are starting to wake up.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Oi... that's twice now Obama's bugged me. Who cares if they are distractions.. that's the point.

 

[wcooper007]

All i can say is wow look where this thread has gone LoL... oh and to the guy that said our taxes have gone down. Dude what the hell are you smoking... taxes have gone up and will continue to go up. but anyways really there is truth to what he has said here in that we do spend alot more time doing things that are not constructive.. But this country has not had a tea party in how many years oh wait we only had one the boston one way back before the revolution.. and now we are having them again. Seriously people wake up the president is only a small problem our entire government is corrupt from the top down its time to start over from scratch.. its so sad to know there is so much tech out there that would make life so much easier we could stop being dependent on oil and fossil fuels and we could have cheap healthcare but, there are too many hands in the cookie jar. Anything that could be life changing gets shelved so that the people that are making money can continue to make money and the people that are not making money can continue to live in poverty.. and now we have to deal with all these people on welfare who think there going ot get everything for free the problem is its not free.. us working people have to pay for you and we are getting tired of it and one day your going to wake up with a serious problem.. oh and on a side note Obama you try to come take my firearms its my right to bear arms so you will never take that away from me you can take my computer but you cant take my rifle...

 

[Yoder54]

[citation][nom]dmk2000[/nom]To (Yoder54) For ones, I’m not a president of USA, therefore, I do not act as a role model for population. Second, I can think for myself and can draw conclusions about behavior of person based on actions of this particular person. Since I have noticed particular trend in the past year of our president, providing misleading information, I have obviously formulated my opinion to the point where I myself cannot any longer blindly believe in any information provided by our president.Is my reasoning has been clarified to your satisfaction “Yoder54”?[/citation]

Nope. You have said very little that is convincing. If you look at the media blitz objectively then you will see how FAUX has been a leader in disinformation...death panels, birthers, supporting reactionary ideas, and then polluting our airwaves with the likes of Beck and Rush Bimbo. What specifically has the current President said that is misleading information...real data, not mumbo-jumbo hearsay.

As a role model I think Obama is a great example of a role model. He has shown the young that any American can rise to the US Presidency. He came from the hood and was not born into wealth, he got an education, and he is raising a family. He is active, quick witted, and a good speaker...so what is wrong.

The most glaring presidential disinformation campaign was born in the Bush administration. Need I remind you of the 'WMD's in Iraq'...NOT. 'Mission Accomplished'...NOT. That is disinformation.

 

[wcooper007]

wow sorry for the rant this crap pisses me off

 

[lamorpa]

@dmk2000: I'd be a little less worried about the possibility of our president misspeaking or exaggerating about his iPod, than I would about the previous president telling little fibs about Iraq having WMD and starting a war over it...