{"id":11961,"date":"2010-05-10T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11961"},"modified":"2010-05-10T09:01:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:01:49","slug":"obamas-ipad-review-dear-graduates-ipads-are-a-threat-to-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11961\/obamas-ipad-review-dear-graduates-ipads-are-a-threat-to-our-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s iPad review: Dear graduates, iPads are a threat to our country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to social media, I prayed for Anna<\/a> to have the grace of god with her this morning.\u00a0 I did not feel like I was damaging the fabric of our country by my simple action.\u00a0 So, I was surprised to learn our president laments that the new media is not “a tool of empowerment.”\u00a0 I translate his words to mean that such things are not yet a tool of his <\/em><\/strong>empowerment.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen his comments, here they are:<\/p>\n

BlackBerry-loving President Barack Obama declared war on technology, singling out Apple\u2019s super-popular iPods and iPads for criticism at a commencement ceremony in Virginia, the New York Post reported Monday.<\/p>\n

Obama — whose election was credited in part to his skillful use of modern media, from smartphones to Twitter to Flickr — on Sunday told college graduates that high-tech gizmos and apps were straining American democracy.<\/p>\n

“With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation,” Obama said at Hampton University in southeastern Virginia.<\/p>\n

Obama described the most popular offerings of companies like Apple, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo as distractions that are putting unnecessary pressure on the country.<\/p>\n

Obama also lamented the spread of social media and blogs, through which “some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction.”
\n“All of this is not only putting new pressures on you,” Obama said. “It is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.” – FoxNews<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you think patriots should drop their iPads?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to social media, I prayed for Anna to have the grace of god with her this morning.\u00a0 I did not feel like I was damaging the fabric of our country by my simple action.\u00a0 So, I was surprised to learn our president laments that the new media is not “a tool of empowerment.”\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-technology","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11737,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11737\/9999999-ipads-left-to-sell\/","url_meta":{"origin":11961,"position":0},"title":"9,999,999 iPads left to sell…","author":"Damon Chetson","date":"April 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I couldn't help myself. 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