“On the campaign trail, President Obama is constantly talking about the importance of technology, but he met his match in an iPhone Sunday,” Dave Boyer reports for The Washington Times. “The president had stopped at a campaign office in Port St. Lucie, Fla., to thank volunteers. Then, for the cameras, Mr. Obama was supposed to call two campaign workers who were out working on his behalf.”
“But when White House trip director Marvin Nicholson handed the president his personal iPhone, Mr. Obama couldn’t get it to work. A reporter who witnessed the scene said the president looked ‘befuddled,'” Boyer reports. “‘It’s not clear he knows how to dial on an iPhone,’ the reporter wrote in a pool report.”
Boyer reports, “Finally, Mr. Obama said, ‘Oh, I got to dial it in. Hold on, hold on. I can do this. See, I still have a BlackBerry.’ The president then “had a little more trouble dialing,” the pool report said. The president then has more trouble dialing.”
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The first time any living human picks up an iPhone, do they know how to use it? Of course not. You have to play with it first to understand it. End of story.
Oh, yeah… and I’m going to vote for Obama just because the other guy wear magical Mormon underpants. Romney, as a Mormon also believes that when he dies, he will become the god of a planet in another galaxy. The Book of Mormon is full of the outlandish made up nonsense: Invented in 1830’s by Joseph Smith. Anyone who believes such blatant malarky isn’t fit to lead our country.
By your definition, anyone who is involved in any religion whatsoever is not able to serve as U.S. President. Steve Jobs, who liked to dabble in Buddhism: Unqualified. The same for basically every other U.S. President. The founders would be amused – or appalled – with your “logic.”
You know nothing. You don’t know anymore than anybody else what happens after death, if anything. Making fun of other peoples’ beliefs makes you seem very sad and stupid.
Reminds me of the story about Eisenhower, who, after leaving office, picked up a phone, heard dial tone instead of his secretary’s voice, and thought it was broken.
You can make calls on the iPhone??
Obama told author Bob Woodward that he didn’t know Rep. Paul Ryan was going to attend at a major speech he delivered last year on spending and debt, and says in retrospect that it was “a mistake” to dress down Ryan and his budget plans to his face in that setting. …
“I’ll go ahead and say it – I think that I was not aware when I gave that speech that Jack Ryan was going to be sitting right there,” the president told Woodward according to audio transcripts of their conversations, provided to ABC News.
“And so I did feel, in retrospect, had I known – we literally didn’t know he was going to be there until – or I didn’t know, until I arrived. I might have modified some of it so that we would leave more negotiations open, because I do think that they felt like we were trying to embarrass him,” Obama continued. “We made a mistake.”
Bob Woodward, The Price of Politics
(Jack Ryan is the name of a famous Tom Clancy character, and also the name of the Republican who was slated to run against Obama in his 2004 Senate campaign before he withdrew in the wake of a sex scandal.)
The problem with Obama’s latest lie is that the White House invited Ryan to the speech. “Chairman Ryan was invited by the White House. Ryan RSVP’d in the affirmative to the White House, and he was given his seating assignment by the White House,” spokesman Conor Sweeney said.
And I’m just absolutely positive that the president personally writes out that invitation list and receives and records the RSVPs, right?
If he said “Jack Ryan” because he reads Tom Clancy that is a positive recommendation. I don’t think Bush actually read anything but Marvel comics.
If it could help him raise money from the 1%’ers he would know how to use it.
Just about like everything else he touches.