• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

Do you really believe that Obama doesn't know how to work technology?

Do you really think Obama doesn't know how to work technology?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • Of course not. He was stretching the truth for laughs.

    Votes: 14 63.6%

  • Of course not. He was flat out lying.

    Votes: 3 13.6%
  • Total voters
    22
All I know is that if he ever gets the gumption to jump on Halo Reach, I will pwn is noob ass! Sticky grenade to the face!
 
I'm pretty sure that even President Obama can beat me in Halo.

"My fellow noobs ..."
 
Mellie said:
Um....how do you know if I misinterpreted it if you don't even know what I think about it?
Click to expand...

roflmao_5221261009874.jpg


We could only wish that your views were less entirely predictable. That might add interest. One need only watch Beck each day to predict with 100% accuracy what you'll be posting on the next day, Mellie, and what your exact position will be.
 
Last edited:
I do find it interesting that Mr. T plays World of Warcraft, which means he's more technologically adept than the president of the most powerful nation on earth. Think about that for a minute.
 
The Mark said:
I don't.
Which is why I said I think you misinterpreted it.

As in, IMO.
Click to expand...

Well, ya thought wrong. I chose the second option.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
roflmao_5221261009874.jpg


We could only wish that your views were less entirely predictable. That might add interest. One need only watch Beck each day to predict with 100% accuracy what you'll be posting on the next day, Mellie, and what your exact position will be.
Click to expand...

And what did you assume my position was?
 
My choice would be "hell no", but then I'm highly skeptical of anything he and most other politicians say anyway.
 
one would assume that being president of america would leave little time for playing halo 3, so i do think he has no idea how to use an xbox or playstation, but thats not to say he couldn't quite easily learn.
 
Mellie said:
Well, ya thought wrong. I chose the second option.
Click to expand...

You apparently fail to understand that your poll choices made it all too clear that you were going to choose an option involving "stretching the truth" or "lying." If you were less biased, you'd see how stupidly biased your poll options were.
 
He didn't deny knowing how to use the Nintendo Wii. :shock:
 
I would like to see a rule at dp where the op has to post "other" to prevent trolling.
 
I'm going to go ahead and hope that the President of the United States of America knows how to push an "on" button.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
You apparently fail to understand that your poll choices made it all too clear that you were going to choose an option involving "stretching the truth" or "lying." If you were less biased, you'd see how stupidly biased your poll options were.
Click to expand...

So you really believe he DOESN'T know how to operate those things? :shock:

What other poll options are there?
 
Mellie said:
So you really believe he DOESN'T know how to operate those things? :shock:

What other poll options are there?
Click to expand...

I don't think you quite realize that outside of a handful of people, no one really knows, and for the most part, no one reasonable cares. Speculation about stupid crap is, well, stupid.
 
I have a confession to make. I have owned an iPod, iPhone, 2 blackberries, a MacBook, 3 PCs and a flat screen TV. I don't know how to program our alarm clock.
 
Hatuey said:
I have a confession to make. I have owned an iPod, iPhone, 2 blackberries, a MacBook, 3 PCs and a flat screen TV. I don't know how to program our alarm clock.
Click to expand...

You are doomed, sir.:shock:
 
Mellie said:
So you really believe he DOESN'T know how to operate those things? :shock:

What other poll options are there?
Click to expand...

Many are possible...
  • Other
  • This poll is stupid.
  • Don't care.
  • Obama may have difficulties with some technology.
  • I'm just here for the tittie pics.

Other problems:

1. A poll should never be phrased as a negative. So, instead of "Do you really believe that Obama doesn't know how to work technology?", more properly the poll should be phrased as:

"Do you believe that Obama knows how to work technology?"

2. The term "really" is unnecessary and implies that he is lying.

3. Ideally, a poll would include more than a false dichotomy (affirmative or hard negative). The term "of course" turns both of the negative responses into hard negatives. Thus, your poll is inherently skewed and illogical. It forces people to pick one of three equally untenable options.

When I create a poll (for work), I usually try to provide at least 5 options. Hard affirmitive, soft affirmative, unsure/other (please explain), soft negative, hard negative. That eliminates the issue of a poll being based upon a false dichotomy.

Creating a poll without bias is actually an art form. But, to be truthful, I think you WANTED a biased poll to reaffirm your own paradigms.
 
Last edited:
Catz Part Deux said:
  • Other
  • This poll is stupid.
  • Don't care.
  • Obama may have difficulties with some technology.
  • I'm just here for the tittie pics.

Durr.

Also, a poll should never be phrased as a negative. So, instead of "Do you really believe that Obama doesn't know how to work technology?", more properly the poll should be phrased as:

"Do you believe that Obama knows how to work technology?"

The term "really" is unnecessary and implies that he is lying.

Further, ideally a poll would include more than a false dichotomy (affirmative or hard negative). The term "of course" turns both of the negative responses into hard negatives. Thus, your poll is inherently skewed and illogical. It forces people to pick one of three equally untenable options.

When I create a poll (for work), I usually try to provide at least 5 options. Hard affirmitive, soft affirmative, unsure/other (please explain), soft negative, hard negative. That eliminates the issue of a poll being based upon a false dichotomy.

Creating a poll without bias is actually an art form. But, to be truthful, I think you WANTED a biased poll to reaffirm your own paradigms.
Click to expand...

Post of the Year. Quote me on this.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
Many are possible...
  • Other
  • This poll is stupid.
  • Don't care.
  • Obama may have difficulties with some technology.
  • I'm just here for the tittie pics.

Other problems:

1. A poll should never be phrased as a negative. So, instead of "Do you really believe that Obama doesn't know how to work technology?", more properly the poll should be phrased as:

"Do you believe that Obama knows how to work technology?"

2. The term "really" is unnecessary and implies that he is lying.

3. Ideally, a poll would include more than a false dichotomy (affirmative or hard negative). The term "of course" turns both of the negative responses into hard negatives. Thus, your poll is inherently skewed and illogical. It forces people to pick one of three equally untenable options.

When I create a poll (for work), I usually try to provide at least 5 options. Hard affirmitive, soft affirmative, unsure/other (please explain), soft negative, hard negative. That eliminates the issue of a poll being based upon a false dichotomy.

Creating a poll without bias is actually an art form. But, to be truthful, I think you WANTED a biased poll to reaffirm your own paradigms.
Click to expand...

Awesome, move over good reverend.
 
There's really no reason for me to retype something I already basically said multiple days ago in another thread so...

Zyphlin said:
Is it wrong that the first thing that jumped out at me, more so than his message, was the utter bull**** nature of it?

Its actually one of the things I detest most about Barack Obama. He is a 100%, complete, wholey, political machine. There's essentially NOTHING else there when he speaks. I can not listen to the man without immediately realizing and viewing it through the filter that he's the truest definition of the bull**** politician I have ever seen in my life.

Why did this immediately jump out at me?

"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction"

So, aside from the message that we're a culture that is SO information rich that we're inundated with so much info that its hard to tell fact from opinion and pure fiction, is the notion that somehow much of this technology we have is actually bad. That its distracting, that its something to not even bother learning or using, to the point where our President himself doesn't bother with it.

And yet, if my memory serves me from a year or so back...

Barack Obama gifts for the Queen: an Ipod your Majesty

Barack Obama met the Queen at Buckingham Palace today and gave her a gift of an iPod loaded with video footage and photographs of her 2007 United States visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia.
Click to expand...

Wait, so President Obama gave the Queen of England an object of distraction and diversion that is so damaging to our very culture that Barack Obama doesn't even bother to learn how to use one? A piece of technology he's seemingly attributing part of the blame for the downfall of intellectual observation of fact from fiction?

But...wait a moment. He doesn't know how to use an iPod. But...I could've swore, in 2008, back when it was important to make him look hip and cool for the youngin's that...ah yes, rolling stone

Barack Obama's iPod: Bob Dylan, Yo-Yo Ma, Sheryl Crow, Jay-Z

The Illinois senator's playlist contains these musicians, along with about 30 songs from Dylan and the singer's "Blood on the Tracks" album.
Click to expand...

That's right, there was an entire piece about what's on Barack Obama's Ipod, making him identifiable and "hip" to the youth of America who were tired of backwards out of touch politician...you know, like that cowboy George Bush or old guy John McCain.

Sorry, this is what I can't stand about the guy and why even when he makes relatively decent points I can't take them at face value and ASSUME he's saying them for wholly benevolent reasons and not specifically for calculated, planned, political reasons.

This statement by him was not simply about misinformation or people being to easily led by what's "Fake" or not. This was not him speaking just as much about the Michael Moore's and John Stewarts of the world as he is the Rush Limbaugh's and Bill O'Riely's. This is completely and utterly him attempting to use a school ceremony at a predominantly black school to push a political message to spread out into the masses.

Perhaps at some point I may've been able to give him a break, but I just can't anymore. His dishonesty, his disingenuous attitude, his utter and complete fake "above the frey" persona is nothing but a cheap, insulting, cover of a pure political beast to the very core.
Click to expand...

He said it for the same reason he says everything. It was what was political advantageous at that time to state to make the point he wanted to make to push his political agenda, and nothing more. The man is a political machine and nothing else, everything and anything coming out of his mouth can not be taken as anything more than that, any more truth than that, because truth for him is completely and utterly a maleable object that can be contorted to whatever design is needed in any given instance.
 
Groucho said:
I've never used any of those things either, so the same applies to me, I guess.

Obama is known for his blackberry, though, so he's not completely computer illiterate; I'm sure he could learn all those things easily enough ... as could I. But that doesn't make his statement a lie.
Click to expand...

Me too! I have a Droid phone, but I haven't used any of those things he lists and would not know what to do if handed one.
 
Zyphlin said:
There's really no reason for me to retype something I already basically said multiple days ago in another thread so...



He said it for the same reason he says everything. It was what was political advantageous at that time to state to make the point he wanted to make to push his political agenda, and nothing more. The man is a political machine and nothing else, everything and anything coming out of his mouth can not be taken as anything more than that, any more truth than that, because truth for him is completely and utterly a maleable object that can be contorted to whatever design is needed in any given instance.
Click to expand...


I could say the same thing about you. Talk about political hackery.
 
LiberalAvenger said:
I could say the same thing about you. Talk about political hackery.
Click to expand...

I actually gave an argument, facts, background for my opinions in my response.

Notice, you gave none of them.

Seriously, I'm one of the most likely conservatives on this forum to routinely criticize or even outright rip other conservatives, republicans, politicians, whatever when they are acting stupid or going against their principles. You're comment would make sense if it was grounded in any sort of reality, which its not.

Nice worthless one liner that was utterly and completely focused on the poster though.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom