Oh geez, someone's a little too invested in this topic.666Chaos said:I think the fact that you are taking this so personally is proof enough that obama was right in what he said. Besides that how is this an attack on video games or saying they are below books.Thespian said:Fine. I'll read it again.666Chaos said:See above about spouting nonsense because you have not taked the thirty seconds to actually read the article and so have no clue what obama was talking about.
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Well wouldn't ya know it, it didn't spontaneously change since last I read it. Craziness.
Again, he implied that reading a book is immediately a better way to spend your time than playing a video game, any video game, for any amount of time, which he is unqualified to say.
Also if you cant understand that books are better for you then video games then I truely do feel sorry for you.And every father can encourage his child to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to study hard and stay in school
Are you implying that Obama is a fan of Fox News? I knew gamers tended to be ignorant of politics, but good lord man, that's like saying King George was brainwashed by Paul Revere's broadsides. Fox news is the ultra conservative network, they hate Obama. If you're going to make a claim like that, at least use a news network that doesn't have an anti-obama bias, like MSNBC.Denariax said:-Looks up from his desk.-
Get off of Fox News' todger and read the Declaration of Independence, then we'll talk.
-Goes back to videogames.-
I agreesketch_zeppelin said:Sorry guys, sounds like good advice to me. I love games but reading is a big deal and we as a country don't do nearly enough of it. If the president is asking parents to put a little more effort into getting our kids to read then we must really have a problem
Will do when they quit that fuckgly shit that they pour in the book of my local library. Twylight? How a random guy survived the cancer and is live was changed by it? How to cook chinese Spaghetti?Saucycardog said:http://www.computerandvideogames.com/308151/news/barack-obama-turn-off-the-video-games-and-pick-up-a-book/
I actually agree with him. He's not saying people shouldn't play video games. He's saying kids shouldn't be playing video games all day long.
How about no? I will not make any attempts to get over it because I am clearly not the one that needs to come to grips with reality here.Thespian said:Yes he did say one damn thing about art. He mentioned books and games, quite clearly both are artforms. And saying that one is more worthy than another is stupid.
And what do you mean "Healthy for me"? Books aren't any more or less healthy for me than video games.
It's not about a daily dose and I surely don't need to go read a book. It's about saying one form of art is superior to another when it's pretty doubtful that this guy has even forayed into gaming as an artform very much.
It's totally unqualified and absurd. Get over it.
That's basically what I was getting at, though I must admit you're more informed on the specifics than I. No more "police actions," which is a bullshit circumvention of constitutional division of power anyway. But I'd still put this behind personhood for corporations and the existence of the Senate.Blind Sight said:The War Powers Act only came into effect in 1973, it was a response to the War Powers Act of 1941 which pretty much let Roosevelt have a massive amount of authority during World War 2. The 1973 act was largely constructed to ensure that Presidents would not be able to intervene in foreign conflicts without Congressional approval (which was largely a response to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the SNAFU created in Vietnam by Kennedy and Johnson when they sent in the marines). Basically, this act was written to ensure that Presidents couldn't do exactly what Obama (other presidents as well, but I'm pretty sure that Bush Sr got approval for the Gulf War, can't recall though) is doing now, forcing the U.S. into another foreign war based on his own decision. The act states that the President can only declare war if America is directly being threatened, so now Presidents just avoid calling it war and instead refer to it as 'intervention'. To be honest it somewhat reminds me of doublethink and doublespeak from 1984, war is peace and all that.funguy2121 said:I'm ambivalent on Libya, but still pissed that he didn't even inform us beforehand, let alone consult us. That being said, would you also suggest that Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, George Bush, Clinton and George Bush Mark II read the War Powers Act as well?Blind Sight said:I will accept your terms Obama, but only if you read the damn War Powers Act and realize that you can't even declare a 'semi-war' on foreign countries without Congressional approval.
I would definitely say that most of the Presidents after 1973 should have read the act, but I also think that the act needs to be redone to include any attempt at foreign military intervention, even without a declaration of war.