People need to learn a little thing called "moderation." Also, get a life! If you had friends to play with, maybe you wouldn't spend all that time playing video games. GTFO and do something! Besides, it's not video games making people unhealthy. If I didn't have video games, it's not like I'm going to substitute all that time with excercise. I'd watch TV and I'd say that is even less healthy than gaming. Then I could sit there and eat the whole time. There's the sole cause of bad health right there: eating habits. Video games pwn.

well i wasnt sure if i wanna chime in on this or not but wtf why not. 1st off i didnt vote for this guy and i didnt wanna vote for the other guy either but i did and he lost. but thats here nor there. i dont like politics. but what i dont like even more is people interferring with my personal life. ya, im one of those un-insured, but i pay my bills. like stated in the article above, u can get exercise in games, mainly the wii fit. but playing games is good for the brain. its been proven. i dont have a link and dont care to put it in if i had one. id like to think obama is a good person, but the ***** he is doing is bogus. if they pass that nationalized healthcare BS, they are going to hike the taxes on everything bad for the body, and that is f.u.c.k.i.n.g b.u.l.l.s.h.i.t. the government is taking enuf of our money as it is and wasting it away. well bring on the hate w/e this is just another one of those BS policies hes tryn to push on us. well maybe i do wanna put a link in, here it is check it out. http://theglennbeck912project.com/ bring on the FLAMES!! and oh ya ive no kids, but when if and when i do, we WILL go outside and play b/c there is nothing better than the great outdoors

No. i see what u did thar...



But it wasn't funny. You're just encouraging the "Violent Video Games Ban" -.-

ALL presidents have SAID things which they could not follow through on. Don't even try to single Obama out.

he's just saying that because he owns six flags now and wants people to go to in more often....

thank god for allergies, bees, poisonous snakes and spiders, mosquitoes, sunburn, skin cancer, etc...



outside isn't that pleasant or safe or healthy for a lot of people...



it's a balancing act... personally i'd rather sit inside in my time off (school or work, depending on age)... so maybe i weigh 20lbs too much for my age and height, so what... i don't have insurance and i don't ask the govt for anything except drug policy reform, who am i hurting besides myself? and is that not my right?

I think you need to give things a bit more time. He's not been president that long and he's got plenty of messes left over from the last guy to clear up.

he has a point, but the fact that kids play too much video games is a symptom, not a problem.



like RockmanForte said, parents do not have enough free time for their children. also, some children have nothing better to do than playing games.

the family institution is the one at fault.. stop blaming the games... they are a legit industry and contribute to your country's gdp...



you can prepare for anything except parenting.. ( and mayb death too)..

what so athletes have to stop playing video games as much



anyway Obama is asking for the wrong thing



see should be asking for gamers to come up with new interesting ways to merge the two together and i dont mean wiimote, which is pretty *****. The gadget show as a few good ways of merging them both together



anyway virtual reality as in , a physical world should really be here by now. its possible and as been possible for quite a long time now, they just need to merge a few existing technology together and get it into the public

If anybody else said this everyone would go nuts, but since it's Obama that said it everyone tends to agree. If Bush said the same thing the opinions wouldn't be so forgiving. He's a puppet, people.. The NWO is coming.

it may be easy to single out someones flaws, but im having an EXTREMELY hard time finding ANY of Obama's greatnesses.(is that the right word? sorry my head hurts and i dont want to think about this anymore)

Quite possibly

Besides, it's not as if he's attacking video games here, what he's saying is really just common sense, just focussed (perhaps typically) around video games.



The fact is, health isn't simply about cutting out fast food or cutting down the hours playing video games, it's about cutting down on any excesses. Many kids/people play video games to excess, they spend far too many hours each day sitting down with a controller, and this is bad for their health. Same with fast food, some people eat too much of it and too often, which again is bad for their health. Heck, even drinking too much water can kill you (called hyponatraemia, or water intoxication). So videos games isn't bad for us, neither is fast food, or water, but taken to excess, then problems will occur.



INterestingly, no-one ever seems to complain about kids who sit down all day reading books, or spending countless hours looking at their collection of stamps or something, and yet the same applies to them too.



So a lot of different things (foods, drinks, games, sports, socialising etc) in moderation, that's one of the main keys to good health. :)

When did Obama actually say "less video games and more playing outside for kids"?

Foolmonkey - it's one thing to promise something then not do it, it's another to SPEND OUR CHILDREN'S AND GRANDCHILDREN'S MONEY in doing nothing



I'm singling him out for the things he HAS done and plans to do



JOshISPoser - the war on poverty has been far more expensive, but we can't get rid of that, now can we? I'm all for stopping unnecessary expenditure on failed programs



however, you should read up organized crime and the Netherlands' lax drug policies; surrounding countries are complaining that hard drugs routinely and easily flow through the Netherlands because of the lax approach to its issues



NathanDrake - the thing is, his policies aren't designed to work, they are designed to strip money away from the private sector and expand government - the only sector of our economy which has NEVER, in its entire existance, produced a single product



as for plenty of messes? what, you mean like the financial reforms that Bush tried to pass? those problems?



hey, let's not forget the original TARP bill Obama voted for while in the Senate



having firsthand experience of socialized medicine in both Europe and Canada and having have had to help family members get visas to come here to receive medical treatment that their government refused to give because of rationing, I'd rather go into poverty to pay for my medical expenses than try what they've done

u do realize that fox news is the highest news channel in ratings right now. Out of every news cable channel, fox news is considered as the most balanced.



Here is a link for june 16 on ratings -

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/06/17/cable-news-tv-ratings-for-tuesday-june-16/20970



Here's a link about "balanced reporting". Of course it is colmes which used to be with hannity but he has a link to the survey. -

http://www.alan.com/2008/08/17/fox-vs-msnbc-vs-cnn/



Besides, I would rather watch Glenn Beck. He is 10 times better than Hannity. But that is my opinion.

MS already applied this to their X360. If you played too much, it would RROD.



Victory is mine!

rockmanforte, did you even read the article?



oh and also, if your sick our leaders, why dont you move to a third world country? I hear Haiti is nice this time of year.

Wants to now take control of my video games..



also its not just video games..



theres also television, you know Mr. O.. that thing that has you on there 24/7..

Taking video games away is not the answer.

I lol'd ;)