In remarks to the National Urban League today, in describing America as a land of opportunity, President Obama suggested that America’s youth were spending too much time doing frivolous things to grab hold of those opportunities.
“America says, ‘we will give you opportunity, but you’ve got to earn your success,’” Obama said in his evening address to a roaring New Orleans crowd as he veered off script.
“You’re competing against young people in Beijing and Bangalore,” he continued. “You know, they’re not hangin’ out. They’re not gettin’ over. They’re not playin’ video games. They’re not watching ‘Real Housewives.’ I’m just saying, it’s a two-way street. You’ve got to earn success.”
“That wasn’t in my prepared remarks,” he quickly added to laughs and cheers. “But I’m just saying.”
Now wait a second, President Obama. First, you want us all to have health insurance, and now you want to take away our video games and Real Housewives? Whatever happened to the opportunity to waste our lives, huh?
Besides, I don’t mean to nitpick, but America’s youth isn’t watching Real Housewives. Their mothers are, and that’s why they’re not helping kids with their homework. And video games? Come on, dude? How are we supposed to beat the Chinese and Bangaloreans at the World Series of Video Games if we don’t put in the hours? Plus, video games are where our superior hand-eye coordination comes from.
Besides, America doesn’t produce goods, but we do lead the world in content production! Think of Real Housewives and video games as research for all the blog content that America’s youth will one day produce! Those tweets don’t write themselves, you know? Without those tweets, who is going to want a smart phone to read them on? No smart phones, no America! Plus, if they spend all their time doing homework, how are they going to update their Facebook pages? Then where will Mark Zuckerberg be? In the poorhouse, that’s where.
Think of the Zuckerbergs, Obama.
(Source: Politico)
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In half an hour, the cut-and-paste specialists of the Romney campaign will have spliced that speech together so that it looks like Obama was telling those lazy minorities they should keep on “hangin’ out” and “playin’ video games” because the Obama White House “will give you … your success.”
It’ll be convincing when they’re done with it. I’m pretty sure Romney hired the guys who edited Homer Simpson’s appearance on “Rock Bottom.”
“No, Mr. Obama, don’t take your anger out on me. M-Mr. Obama, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” “Dramatization: May Not Have Happened”…. I don’t have anything insightful to add. I just wanted to add that for my amusement
Could be worse…..Rick Santorum takes all his directions from God…..frey Jones.
I forgot all about this… Thanks guys.
Kudos to Dustin for keeping a “political” post apolitical, then bamf, first post out of nowhere is Otto all hot and bothered for Romney. Obama says something that we should all be able to agree on and Otto turns it into an attack. Again. I know you can’t help yourself, but jesus dude, do you have an off switch for that shit?
In Otto’s defense…..
Romney is just turrible.
I don’t often agree with Otto, but when I do it usually involves Homer Simpson
\solid romney voter
Is Bangalore a real city? It sounds like the title of a porno.
You’re thinking of the film “Bangalot,” starring King Ar-thrust, Sir Glad-a-head, and the wizard Merkin.
I preferred Bangalot 2: Splayed Marian.
Good call Otto, but I thought that porn was titled “Cumalot”
Those were two different films, UU, like “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon.”
I believe “Cumalot” featured Morgan the Lay and a lot of S&M sequences involving Sir Loin and Sir Ender.
Deep Impact and Armageddon were two different films !!!
Actually, if you count their porn parodies, “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon” were four different films.
Man, I still can’t believe Ben Asslick got his whole arm in there.
Okay, Otto and I also agree on porn
The real question is how will Fox News crew use this as quote that he’s a secret Kenyan/Marxist/Terrorist trying to destroy America?
Wait a minute, re-reading the comments – I see Otto Man has already answered my question. Well done sir, well done.
Romney: Obama says you have to EARN your success? You people can do whatever you want! My daddy gave me all my money and I’m doing just fine. Last I heard this is America…. y’all. *Thinks, “Dammit, Mitt, stop blindly disagreeing with everything the president says”*
Great, now I’m reading about this moron on this site?
I idea that in America, we are free to live our lives however we want, even if our actions are detrimental to ourselves and/or our society is one of the reasons we are no longer the greatest country in the world.
Actually, pretty much everyone agrees the line gets drawn at hurting others.
But hey, all of those morality laws work great. There are no drugs being abused in this country at all.
If that were true, Shit Snacks, then we wouldn’t be having a debate about gay marriage, I wouldn’t have to drive to another county to buy vodka just because it happens to be Sunday and a lot of people here go to church, and I could run to CVS for weed instead of having to interact with someone named Ogre or Gorilla.
/sarcasm
Bravo (is it Bravo?) can keep the Real Housewives. That pack of shrill harpies have no discernible talents and they all look like they got their plastic surgery done by the Jim Henson Creature Shop.
However, I will keep my video games until the President pries them from my controller-induced sweaty hands. You can play video games and do well in school and have a career. I mean, how else can you afford more video games?
“they all look like they got their plastic surgery done by the Jim Henson Creature Shop”
Well done.
Yea, because the mark of a great country is whether or not you can get vodka on Sundays and buy weed at the same place you get your tampons. Let’s really shoot for the fucking stars.
Sorry, Mr. President, but kids in Beijing are abso-fucking-lutely playing video games. Who the hell else am I going to buy Warcraft gold from?
The mark of a great country is not interfering in the business of people who are doing no one any harm. Smoking weed or drinking on a Sunday affect no one else negatively.