Obama to US voters: Stop playing Game Boy |
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While we can understand his sentiment, Senator Barack Obama's choice of rhetoric was a bit stale. Game Politics notes an Associated Press report that mentions his use of gaming as an equivalent to slacking.According to the Associated Press, Obama was heard saying this at a a recent promotional rally in Austin, Texas:
Obama told the Austin crowd that they should try to recruit their friends to support his campaign. "I want you to tell them, 'It's time for you to turn off the TV and stop playing Game Boy,'" Obama said. "We've got work to do."
It obviously wasn't meant as a literal term, as the senator's been somewhat vocal in getting newer voters to go out and rock the vote (for him, presumably). He previously criticized youth culture as "watching TV, playing video games, and avoiding tough classes in school." Whether or not he wins the elections, we just want to tell him one thing though: "The new handhelds are the DS Lite and PSP. Take your pick for your next performance."
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haha he can ban gameboys if he wants to. ill just play the emulator.from now on we need to call our PSPs a job!
i call prx loading >_>
If someone is going to insult us by claiming video games are destroying the foundation of today's society and all that other nonsense people keep throwing out, the least they could do is drum up a little research. Then again, if they actually did that, they'd just be proving themselves to be as retarded as we all know them to be already.
thx for the 2 cents.....$1 more and i can go get a sandwhich
and how many parents think their kids are just 'playing game boy'. do they really know its a PSP or a DS Lite? nope. my mom always thought it was gameboy and nintendo, no matter what console it actually was. its no different than today.
and he's obvoiusly playing his right wing card with this line. wants to get america's youth out there working, breeding hardworking self sustaining individuals. its how he got elected in illinois, and he's just playing his cards to get into voters minds.
remember that nothing politicians say is ever true. they say the right thing to get you to check their name in november.
Go to hell OBAMA ! - Were lazy american slackers and proud.
I think that the Media took this the wrong way... they love to spin words and I think this is one example.
stfu you damn terrorist. i'll play psp whenever i want
Meh, I Am Canadian
Hello Barack Obama,
If u r reading this, am a Blk African American like yourself. But Hillary Rodham Clinton is the person i'm voting 4. 2b the next President of the U.S. of America. W/that have a Gud day.
Wow, do you guys even read the article? I'm also wondering what the average IQ of a qj poster is....
He was talking to adults, adults think videogames are "a waste of time"...and really, they are. They are just entertainment and nothing more, it's not like gaming is a way of life. You can't create anything while playing a game, and your life pretty much comes to a halt.
That said, he won't ban gameboys...and maybe some of the more fanatic gamers should heed his words, in fact, maybe some of the posters on his thread should. Maybe if you guys took your eyes off your gameboy(or psp), you'd see how stupid you look, lol.
{ps: I do play gameboy(and psp)}
Canada FTW! lol
I have nothing against America at all though.
" Hello Barack Obama,
If u r reading this, am a Blk African American like yourself. But Hillary Rodham Clinton is the person i'm voting 4. 2b the next President of the U.S. of America. W/that have a Gud day."
Isn't Hillary the one always giving speeches against video games and having meetings with jack thompson and *****? She doesn't sound like a "gud" choice either.
My mom thinks when i play example GC that i play Playstation and when i play something handheld console she thinks i play Gameboy. :S
"You whipper-snappers need to put down your...abacuses and your tiddlywinks and get out there and vote."
Ok guys, be honest.... how many times were you playing PSP when you should be doing something?
>.> thing is freaking addicting... Like candy or strippers.
Some of us don't consider playing video games as serious as deciding the fate of the country. I think that is what he meant. It is like when I don't play video games because I have school work to do or a job to be doing. If I read into your message like that, it would let me know that you like making fun of handicapped people instead of people who could help being stupid. (IE. Retarded people)
HE ISNT BLACK!!! HE IS AFRICAN AND MIXED WITH ASIAN!!!
The readers here seemed to understand the article just fine. Most of us want to state our opinions on Mr. Barak a little further than the whats said in the article itself. You on the otherhand just want to come off like you are the bearer of all knowledge and without your insight we would be all lost. Will We?
*FOR FUN SOME QUOTES FROM YOUR POST.*
*He was talking to adults - Was he!
*adults think videogames are "a waste of time" - Do they!
*You can't create anything while playing a game - Can't I!
* Maybe if you guys took your eyes off your gameboy(or psp) - Sir Sir thats psychically impossible. Video games don't have eyes.
*you'd see how stupid you look, lol. - hahaha you'd see it, you'd see it.
*{ps: I do play gameboy(and psp)} - you're a douche.
Nothing personal. I'm just a hole, on the rag, on a bad day, probably a little drunk. I'm not a mean person. I'm usually the one who chimes with "Oh you guys" when people are making n*gger jokes or sodmizing puppies with toothpicks.
Off to rehab now.
Yes, I also believe adults like to be criticised because he DID say "It's time for you to turn off the TV"...or maybe just children watch TV? -.-
he should watch his words if he wants to get our votes.
I'm looking at all the candidates. I wouldn't vote for Hillary even though it would be funny to see Bill as the FIRST first man. She has done some overspending and been making some more conservative choices recently as well as making few notable accomplishments in my eyes over her career. My hopes are aligned with Obama for pres with Clinton for vice to be the top pick for the Democrats. It seems like a near sure win. The real issue is that they are both just Senators with little knowledge to get things done. I think that the two of them together like that would be a hell of a combination though. P.S. Hillary hasn't even filed FEC with the Democratic party yet as I know.
John McCain though, is a hell of a candidate to run against. It is a good thing that the republicans have recently lost favor from Bush for the Democratic Party. He is called a "maverick" by the media because he goes against his own party if he wishes. That makes him special in more ways then one and could be a good thing or bad thing. We can't have any arguments over trivial things when stuff needs to get done and that is why we have a two party system when you get to the roots.
Every other candidate is just a runoff catcher for the people that want to be able to say they voted and things would have been better if their candidate had won to me. Edwards, Dean, Sharpton, Giuliani, all of them. Vote for one of them if your too upset to leave your psp or ds for a second to do some research.
Racist people are senseless and ignorant.
The previous post was a fine example of internet ebonics.
those people are dum, lazy and uppity. GO GET A JOB THOSE PEOPLE!
:)
that makes him black. Tiger woods is black also.
There is notthing wrong with calling him black.
What would be wrong is calling him african american if he DID NOT have african blood in him.
I think its more politically correct to call blacks black...instead of "african american" as now ALL blacks are african and not all africans are black.
The guy is simply saying that "WE" have the power to change things, but "WE" are spending to much time with escapism!!
Thanks for proving Obama right and making gamers look like a bunch of rambling idiots!
High five?
ok obama lost my vote. Hilary FTW
...And that's all im gonna say about that!
I didn't read anywhere where it said senator Obama wanted to ban GameBoys.
This guy's a noob. A complete and utter noob. Why must adults criticize their children's hobbies? I don't call my dad an ass hole for going fishing.
Obama pulling a "right wing" card???
What are you talking about?
The statement was meant to coarse the pubic to get more involved at a more grassroots level. Instead of simply sitting infront of a television, or handheld. He used the word GameBoy because it has become a general noun for handheld video game systems *which you stated*.
I dont understand how you got any of your other opinions from the article.
Its now my understanding that NO ONE here knows jack about politics.
Fine example indeed it even stole the period off this sentence
Wow, a lot of you dip*****s did nothing but prove his point. Great job, fellas.
Barak is black dipsh*t, maybe u should stop playin ur psp if u didnt know sumthing as simple as dat
Are you saying that because you don't? NO ONE here knows jack? Hmmm YOU'RE HERE. So I guess that means you too.
Everyone knows something about poltics, its quite ignorant to draw conclusions based on a few stupid comments here. The news is everywhere from the newspaper, the tv, to your mobile phone. There's homeless people who knows whats going on politically.
You think because some people are goofing on this that they don't know whats going on. Its like saying that because Tom Green had once sucked a cows utter on national tv being goofy that he can't possibly know anything about politics or whats going on around the world either from hearing it from word of mouth or TV.
Most people here are no political experts but most of us are going to know a thing or 2 from it being absolutely everywhere. Its inevitable unless you are some hayseed who lives under a rock.
What was his point? All he wants is you to vote for him by making some blanket statment on videogames and people going out to check his name on the ballots.
People are goofing on him because allot of people don't care for him and his political agenda. Screw him and screw you. Hillary all the way for me.
She's overall the best choice as of now. Bill was a decent president and she would probably be too with him around aiding her.
HIGH FIVE!!
Unbelievable how stupid people are here. This place is even worse than gamefaqs, since it's actually the majority who are completely and utterly thick.
Nah, Hilary would be so so. Obama seems decent enough even though he only had 2 years of senate experience. The thing I don't like about Hilary are those slow starting rants of hers. She'd speak slowly then go off crazy Ack Ack Ack.
Obama vs Hilary is a tough choice, and allot of people are going to look at it as black vs women for office. Instead of the regular middle american white guy whose been involved with the senate and other governmental branch for years and years.
Who would you rather have?
You added nothing to the topic but complain and whine like a child. Get off the internet and open a book little one. The adults are speaking.
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (born in Alego, a village in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas). His parents met while both were attending the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.
His mom was white, not Asian. You're thinking of Tiger Woods.
Agreed on the Democratic candidates. Not sure what's going on with the Republicans. So far we've got McCain the hypocrite (keynote speaker at graduation for a college run by someone he previously called an "agent of intolerance"), Romney the flip-flopper (claimed to be more pro-gay-rights than Ted Kennedy, used to support freedom of choice, now entirely anti-gay-marriage and pro-life), Giuliani the divorcee who holds almost no views in common with the other Republicans, and... who else??
Texas, lol.
He is the one who is slacking. He won't even consider another investigation into 9/11. Hey you guys, check this out: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4026073566596731782&q=improbable+collapse
If you don't understand his sentiment, then he may be right.
I would have been mad if he singled out video games, but he included TV as well.
Point is, he is right, we gain absolutely nothing from watching TV and playing video games, aside from some quicker reflexes and better problem solving skills, and you can learn something from TV if you watch Discovery or TLC. It's still very little.
We do need our play time, but maybe not as much as some of us use. There are always better things to do.
I've wanted to be an artist forever, and i'm 25 and just getting to the point where i'm able to get jobs with my art. However, there are kids that are 18 or younger that are at the same level as me because all they do is eat and breathe art, whereas I usually spent more time playing games then practicing drawing...hence slower development and more time spent in *****ty jobs....the man has a point, to a degree...
I think any mature person will know he is right...
And HOLE....
Yes it was aimed at adults - Children can't vote !
And no you can't create anything(other then gas) while playing vids - 2 hands and brain engaged, please cite an example of something you actually create while playing vids....
Don't get me wrong, I play a *****load of vids(probably too much), but it doesn't mean i'm blind to the truth.
Learning is for queers.
I'm Irish so I don't care. Ireland FTW. Lets All have a good ole sip from the green Irish ale And play Zelda on ar PSP.
all you pricks on here need to actually take time and see what Barack was saying.I agree alot of you guys on here have a IQ of a child and the maturity of a child.Grow up dont hide around alot of you guys racist ways.Barack will be the next president so prepare yourselves
Thanks so much for not saying "First post"... I hate the jackasses that do that. >_>
Racists are ignorant incestful redneck *****holes. Go sodomize your brother.
Racist. (u 2)
Racism is ignorant, and a waste of time...
Obama probably shouldn't be so careless with his words...
When gamers go wild in qj.net posts over a meaningless comment on Obama's part, it proves him right regarding our slacking tendencies.
the 'right wing' card IS grassroots. hard working, blue collar, and resiliant to innovation and technology. many conservatives dont like how america's youth sit for hours on end indulging themselves in video games. whether that is actually good or bad has never been proven, but it is the mentality of conservative right wing voters that video games are evil. obama is the most republican democrat i've ever seen, and that is what got him elected in illinois, and that is what will get him elected in 2008.
anybody who bases their vote on video games doesn't deserve to vote in the first place
Yep, placing me in some stereotype is going to make me vote for you
/sarcasm
There are a lot of things which are much more harmful to society than video games, maybe if you payed more attention to them I'd pay more attention to you
This is the most irrelevant and pointless news post ever. All people who don't play video games call handhelds "gameboys". Now get the hell over it.
Obama doesn't seem to be bashing video games. Hillary on the other hand, does.
last time i checked... a DS lite is just a new version of the "GAMEBOY" DS. There is almost no difference between the two other than one is slightly smaller and less ugly. Also i think almost every nintendo handheld has "GAMEBOY" tacked on it somewhere.
The racism... i look at you people as trash...
The truth is... you morons only prove his point more and more as you say things like "im gonna go play my psp" because he meant it as a blanket statement concerning all videogames, and it probably had nothing to do with 90% of the people posting on this(most of you idiots are under the age of 18. So you cant vote for em anyway, and even if you will be 18 in time to register to vote; Will you actually take the time out of your day to go vote for anyone?). So how bout you kids go post on some other articles that actually have something to do with you and stop posting...
-sincerely egg
"wants to get america's youth out there working, breeding hardworking self sustaining individuals."
Wow, are you stupid? Uh, hello DUH!! You know, before video games and other distracting media devices were invented, young men (and women) actually made USE of their day!! A durka durka durka durrr sorry that he didn`t say "Youth, stay at home and play your PSP. Let us adults do everything. And when you become adults, *****, keep playing your PSPs and be lazy and merry!".
Jeez kid, you`re either real dumb or real lazy.
according to eb games the psp is old and outdated though.
You are some of the most retarded people I've ever come across. Unlike Obama, I don't care if you spend your entire lives playing video games, everyone's free to waste their lives as they see fit. However...please don't vote. People as ignorant as you guys don't understand who/what you'd be voting for, you can only make things worse. Until you learn a lil bit about politics, or at least come to realize that politicians have control over issues that are a hell of a lot more important than some *****ing video games, just stay out of it. You can't help anything.
the people who being racist you can stove it because you are acting dumb.
Wasn't there some president once who was asked in a press conference if there was anything that he didn't like and he replied, "eating my broccolli" and it was clearly a joke, everyone knew it was. But then all of the broccolli industries freaked out and said he was a terrible person and was trying to make children not eat their vegetables stuff. That's what all you guys are doing when you complain about this. He's clearly not saying that videogames are the downfall of the country, he's just saying get off your lazy asses and get involved in the world. And QJ I've gotta say, that whole DS lite PSP instead of Gameboy comment you had made me die a little bit on the inside. He just said Gameboy because that's the far better known name for videogames. And what are the odds guy who got the first post, your post was terrible. I almost cried at how terrible your emulator joke is.
Get off here if you don't enjoy playing games. A lot of people don't like your reasoning. So you are saying that if you were at a party with your friends and a group of snobs came by, you would insult your friends to make the snobs think you are cool. Go blow wind on another site if you are not for freedom of living the way you want.
Yep oh joy!
the dumb thing is that adults also play video games!!!!!!!!!! !!
Dude I've been a loyal QJ reader since I first got my PSP way back in 2005 when nobody even knew what a PSP was. I like both videogames and this website. I just didn't like this particular post. Obama's a pimp. He didn't mean anything bad by what the comment he made. That's all I wanted to say. Don't freak out, chuckingrocksat spaceships.
obama is the best
Yeah I know what you mean. My mom used to call every system I used to own an Atari. When nintendo came out she'll call it gameboy. When Playstation came out, everything is called a Playstation. No makes me laugh harder then my parents.
Although I am a little sick when I ever hear politicians use games in their topics, I'm not sure whether he is using them to get on people's good side and show that he cares or its so that he can "play with their emotions".
If they really want us to care about them, then they need to stop telling us whats good for us and what we should be doing, because we have a brain and can think for ourselves. A politician's job is to serve our interests, and they need to stop waisting our time and tax money.
No wonder people's involvement with politics has been declining in the past years. People probably didn't want to keep on seeing politicians involved in their every day life and don't want others to tell them what to do and what they shouldn't do. We need someone protects our freedoms and our right to live ever day the way we want to.
FIRST POST!
alienated about a million future and present voters
how dare he tell me what to do with my archaic system which i haven't played with since 1995. Ima go dig it out and play some kirby's dreamland right now!
yeah, my little cousin calls her ds lite her 'nintendo', and the weird thing is that she has an old school nintendo, and still refers to her ndsl simply as nintendo.
it really bugs me, but hey, she can call it whatever she wants.
Canadian
OMG have you nothing REAL to post about than this crap?? Come on give us real news I mean WTF has this got to do with the PS3!?!?!?!
This is hilarious. Barak makes one little comment that he probably though would be kinda funny... and look at what we've done here!!!
All the guy meant was that we need to get off our asses if we want to see positive changes happen.
BTW Barak is a way better speaker than Hillary.
KEEP THE CHANGE
i guess you don't remember that CNN typo: "Where's Obama?". And I guess you don't watch real TV
I think the 'Gameboy' statement speaks volumes about what a phoney (like most of the Republicrats) Obama is. Here's another ultra-rich aristocrat trying to appear connected to the general populace by throwing-in popular culture catch-words that someone fed him because he hasn't a clue to how real people live. Think about it: if it were you running a campaign, would you insult people en mass who have taken up with what has become an accepted passtime for BOTH adults and children? I think I'd be saying instead, "Come out in the streets and help my campaign, and bring your PSP's and DS's along!" Having done campaign support years back for an independent candidate, there is definitely down time where having had something like the PSP while waiting or drumming up signatures at the fairgrounds might have been nice to have around. For Obama's speech writers, this is just an easy appeal to the old farts in the crowd to do the usual generational divide and get the elders on his side. Note: I'm saying this as an adult not too many years younger than this clown. His charade of sincerity is nothing new.
Please learn about the North American Union, Skull & Bones, Bohemian Grove...
Please download and watch the movie " 911 Mysteries " and the movie " Loose Change " (2nd Edition)... They can be found on Google Video and also on torrent sites.
Please visit www.infowars.com and listen to the radio program there in Winamp, for real news of what is happening in the world.
"Back in 2005 when nobody even knew what a PSP was."
HAHAHAHAHA! That seriously just made my day. Thanks for the laugh, man.
@what are the odds, nice comeback. Emulators, lol
@hartleshc, he was joking. it's illegal to ban something harmless. Even if something harmless is banned, and enough people like it, it will be legalized again. Think prohibition.
@kohaku, you said first post yourself!!! And, also, even though he didn't say first post, he did say, "lol w00t 1st jump". But, unfortunately, that won't catch on, since there's no public proof that he did in fact do the first jump. Also, 1st posters aren't jackasses. They do it to make people like you flame them. lol. Besides, I think you're just jealous that you can't post first. Don't worry, just keep hitting refresh, and you'll make it one day.
@everyone, when he says gameboy, he's just using the "general term". Gameboys became so popular that n00bs refer to any handheld now as a gameboy. For example, people at work make xeroxs on our HP printer/scanner.... People use kleenexs to wipe their noses when the boxes obviously say "cottenelle". People at wendy's sometimes order a double meat whopper. you get the idea, when something is famous, it becomes the name for the whole industry. Get it? No?! Well, think of it this way, if the atari lynx, or the sega game gear had reached the popularity of the gameboy, our psps would've been referred to as lynxes or gamegears by adults. Just like back when pokemon was cool: when digimon came out, we started playing digimon cards at school. There was a no "pokemon cards" rule at school, so we assume digimon was ok. of course, the noobish teachers confiscated our cards anyway (and probably gave them to their children). lol.
and finally @myself: you are such a geek.
Political *****. Banning so called "violent" games. It's just 3-D animation for goodness sake.
Omfg he has ONLY 2 YEARS of Senate experience and he thinks he can talk THAT way about Gameboy!? OMG CONSPIRACY Sony is paying him to support Blu-Ray! omgeez!! No wait, it's because he's BLACK! I mean Indian! I mean...not white? Uh 11 years from now when I can vote
Barack obama is going to be the PREZZZZident so get used to it omfg!!!!1111
Oh wait, this was the most retarded article QJ could have posted. I think everyone knows what he meant. Hey, at least he finally took a stance on something.... :)
And I quote, "Obama told the Austin crowd that they should try to recruit their friends to support his campaign. "I want you to tell them, 'It's time for you to turn off the TV and stop playing Game Boy,'" Obama said. "We've got work to do.". He doesn't even know what a Game Boy is. A Game Boy is a portable system created by Nintendo that contains a built-in screen, thus a television is not needed in order to play it.
On the other hand he could be referring to playing pokemon on an N64 Pokemon Stadium game, or playing an extremely complicated mod of the gameboy that allows the user to connect their gameboy to a tv. But then again, he could also be refering to playing game boy through a pc on t your television.
Or if Obama was smart enough, he could also be referring to the Multitasking capabilities that this Generation has proven to be capable of doing. I play my psp while watching tv, listening to music, and doing my homework all at the same time!!!..:D I wouldn't penalize Obama for being ignorant, but at least he's not as dumb as the Department of Defense!!!!.....
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Guys, did you spot the 9/11 sign?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAP7RspKrAQ
WATCH IT NOW!
HAHAHA. This is dumb. The whole lot of it. Oh no, he said to stop playing your handheld!!!! :-)) I see a lot of complaints about the handheld, but not the watching TV part. He probably secretly sits in the bathroom watching LocationFree on his PSP! --Oh no, what would everyone think?! I better cover this up quick! hmm, but how?--
This is the first jump I've seen that hasn't turned into a war between 360 and PS3 fanboys!
didn't you?