Obama: You’ve got to put the video game away
Today, in Gary Indiana, Obama said:
You’ve got to put the video game away once in a while.
What the @!#?@! is he talking about!?!? I mean yes, he went on to talk about something to do with parenting and responsibility, but really, I stopped listening after this single offensive line. Lets hear it again.
You’ve got to put the video game away once in a while.
Where is the Obama I knew? The one who led us–as recently as DAYS ago–in chants of “Yes Wii can!”?!?!?
“Take a deep breath,” I told myself. He did say, “once in a while.” I must be reading it wrong. Maybe he meant you can put away the old consoles when the new ones come out. (They do pile up.) But, the more I thought about it, the more it upset me. For someone who has been on the right side of difficult issues (e.g., Iraq), how can he be so wrong on this one? It was like he was joining the ranks of Clinton, who once said:
“The disturbing material in Grand Theft Auto and other games like it is stealing the innocence of our children.”
I remember it well, back in the eighties, when Lode Runner stole my innocence. It bore one of those lode-runner brick-melting square holes straight into my heart, and I never recovered. Maybe that’s why I don’t “get” the ongoing attacks on video games.
As Justice Harlan said, “One Man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.” Clinton may see “disturbing material” in scenes from Grand Theft Auto, but I see only the sage life-lesson that you can recover your money from a prostitute by murdering her afterwards.
7 Responses to “Obama: You’ve got to put the video game away”
http://www.vertical-politics.com
They should do exit polls to find out which candidate gets the gamers’ vote. Just a thought.
http://www.vickiforman.com
It’s enough to make me change my vote. Are those really all your controllers? A pink GBA?
http://overbreadth.com
Nope, not mine. Found that pic online.
After everything you and Barack have been through, you betray him over an Atari? I thought better of you Cameron Fredman. I TSK AT YOU.
http://overbreadth.com
Yes, I’ve been through a lot with Obama, but do you have any idea how hard a game Joust is? Show me a candidate who rides a flying-ostrich and I will show you the next president.
Incidentally, while writing the above paragraph, I searched for joust to confirm that it was in-fact an ostrich and discovered that they’re making a joust movie. Have a look at this fire-breathing flying ostrich that’s destroying Hollywood:
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ET TU, BRUTE?
ET TU?!
http://www.luros.org
Was Judas a character in GTA4? I never beat 3, and I just couldn’t bring myself to play 4 before I had earned that right.
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