In an official White House photo by Pete Souza, U.S. Veep Joe Biden and President Barack Obama look at an iOS app on an Apple iPhone in the Outer Oval Office, Saturday, July 16, 2011.
Obama is an iPad user, but also uses a RIM BlackBerry phone, so the odds are that the iPhone 4 they’re looking at is Biden’s or a staffer’s.
We also know that former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush are confirmed iPad owners. The iPadiness of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton is currently unknown, Clinton is a confirmed Apple iPhone user. (See related article below.)
MacDailyNews Take: Shall we play a game? …A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Related articles:
U.S. Federal government upgrades from BlakBerries to iPhones, laptops to iPads – May 31, 2011
U.S. President Obama confirmed Apple iPad owner (with photo) – April 25, 2011
Confirmed: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is an Apple iPod and iPad user – December 14, 2010
Former U.S. President George W. Bush’s favorite iPad app – October 28, 2010
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s favorite device: Apple iPhone – March 16, 2010
Steve, buy that man an iPhone: Obama vows to keep his Blackberry despite security, legal concerns – January 8, 2009
John McCain: Confirmed Mac user, Barack Obama: Confirmed Mac user (and BlackBerry sufferer) – July 21, 2008
Karl Rove loves his Apple iPhone and MacBook Air – March 22, 2008
President Bush’s Senior Advisor Karl Rove confirmed Apple iPhone user (with image) – August 06, 2007
U.S. President George Bush a confirmed Apple iPod user (images included) – December 22, 2004
President Bush, candidate Kerry both use Apple PowerBooks – July 14, 2004
“So what’s that nuclear missile stand down code again?..”
Seems like a genuinely nice shot with some Apple hardware. Regardless of the politics, it’s a good PR shot for Apple and the iPhone.
We cannot tell for sure they are looking at an app but, whatever it is they are watching, must be some good poll results as Mr President looks happy about it. Probably is just a game where Mr President beat Mr Vicepresident. Don’t know.
Laughing at a new game called “Angry Job Hunters?”
Those bastards! That’s the ANDROID Store!
Dumb & Dumber with big smiles looking at how they f#%ked up our country yet once again!!
“yet once again”
guess we know who “dumbest” is.
I am still amazed that there are those who ignore how Bush/Cheney took a $300B+ surplus and created a $1T (‘T’ as in trillion) deficit, while his sidekick Cheney spewed ‘deficits don’t matter’. Their incompetence is Obama’s fault? It’s not clear how anyone is going to clean up the mess Bush/Cheney left behind.
You are feeding the problem. The problem isn’t that Bush screwed it up or Obama screwed it up further. The problem is that the government has too much power and control over our money and lives.
While people think that the government should have more power and control these problems will continue to get worse.
Truth be told, limbaugh/o’rielly/hennity have the conservative lemmings frothing at the mouth with there ‘artificial truths’. In general terms, “the aggressor is always dominant”. The louder their bark, the more it’s heard. The sad part is, these spinmasters wrap themselves up in some sort of distorted, “christain values”.
Let’s face the facts, our elected servants of the common people have failed us in a big way, it’s that simple.
Ludicrous lemmings lapping profuse perfidious propaganda.
For Tea Party members who’ve never opened a dictionary:
Perfidious:
Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; treacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. –Shak.
‘Shak’ refers to ‘Shakespeare’, this old guy from a long time ago who wrote very deep and meaningful plays that you’ll never understand or bother to read. And yes, you deserve being patronized. 😛
No! Obama’s faults are Obama’s faults. He took a bad situation and made it worse. If you disagree, what metric can you state to back that up? Unemployment rate? Jobs that are out there are great paying jobs (unlike the Bush hamburger flipper jobs, and never mind that of the 54,000 jobs number reported in May of 2011 was due to MacDonalds hiring 30,000). Low Gas Prices? Decreasing energy and food costs? America is more respected around the world? Less Flash Mobs? More Civility? Our friends love us and our enemies fear us? What metric?
Regarding Clinton’s surplus, you do know he had a Republican controlled Congress ‘nough said. Today the Republicans put forth the Paul Ryan Budget Plan to jokes and ridicule from the Democrats who have no plan! Yeah, like Democrats left to their own devices could have balanced a budget, be it now or under Clinton!
Finally, those “Bush” wars are the result of Clinton’s mess… you know stained blue dress mess and lying to the American people as Bin Laden plotted and schemed. If Clinton worried less about getting his dick polished by an 24 year old intern and his other booty conquests and concentrated a little more on what the enemies of America were doing, then no 9/11 and no wars. So you see, in reality, the mess we have is Clinton’s aided by Obama and a Democrat controlled Congress passing health care bills that can’t be afforded and put burden on those that hire so they are not hiring.
Patiently await your retort…
As if you were actually interested in dialog. You’re looking for nothing more than another chance to spew your warped “reality”. Don’t wait up; the thoughtful have already moved on.
>>Regarding Clinton’s surplus, you do know he had a Republican controlled Congress…
The Economic Recovery Act of 1993 passed without a single Republican vote. The Republicans didn’t gain control of Congress until after the 1994 elections. Perhaps you remember ‘Contract With America’…
It was f*cked up when they took ownership. Idiot.
“Dumb & Dumber with big smiles looking at how they f#%ked up our country yet once again!!”
Oh, I know who f#%ked up my country! For 8 long, sickness infested years!
But that’s because I know how to think for myself. Thinking a rarity these days. Having a brain is also why I like Apple. Get it? Or is that concept too confusing for you to comprehend? 😆
If so, this will really blow your mind:
I’m no fan of Obama’s wimpiness either. Both parties can go frack themselves as well as the corrupt and stooopid Corporate Oligarchy that pulls their strings.
The iMpeach app?
“you pull that red bird and shoot it into those green pigs”
i hope hes amusing himself before he gets nut busted next year
If that happens, prepare for the depression.
What, a depression on top of the already ongoing economic depression the Neo-Con-Jobs already pulled out of their orifice? Do you call that a ‘Double-Dip Depression”?
Kids: PLEASE go read, watch and hear the PoliTard lunacy spewing from the mouths of the Tea Party nutjobs. PLEASE! If you don’t find their anti-intellectual ignorance and un-Christian HATE disturbing, you’re pulling the rope on the USA death knell, so long, nice knowing ya. 😕
Barry Hussein Soetoro is a complete fricking idiot for preferring a BlackBerry over an iPhone.
prefer? The President has no choice in this.
Perhaps you might ask the White House IT Dept…
It’s the Baby Shaker app with a new baby: John Boner!
Not bad smiles for a couple of cold blooded killers. Must be making jokes about firing Predator drones from an iPhone. Shameful, really.
Cold blooded killers? Where did that come from? Wait…just stop. I don’t want to know.
Where did that come from?
Err… How about Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya? Obama and Biden like them some dead sandpeople as much as Bush and Cheney.
Wow, a simple picture and the idiots come out of the woodwork with their political bullshit. Like YOU said in 2000 and 2004 – “Get over it, you lost!”
They are looking at the cnbc live quotes app watching stocks crash after one of the presidents encouraging speeches hahaa
Biden is holding an iPhone and a paper notepad. What’s up with that?
Huh?
It’s porn. They gotta be looking at porn. I mean, look at those smiles!
Not that I even need to bother — Obama-Biden are headed for an historic landslide loss next November — but, isn’t it nice that the U.S. prez, who’s so focused on U.S. jobs or, rather, lack thereof, carries a Canadian device while on his taxpayer-funded campaign tour in Canadian-made buses?
Forget Kenya, apparently Obama’s Canadian.
BTW, Lib hypocrites, what’s the carbon footprint of a 42-vehicle bus tour?
Thanks. We’ll take him.
Actually, really, can we have him? he’s way better than anything we’ve had for a long time.
Well, I’ll give you Cretien and Paul Martin, those socialist bastards, but Harper is the best Prime Minister since Pearson.
I’ll begin to believe it when the Republicans nominate a credible candidate. “Pray for rain” Perry and “Do as I say and not as I do” Bachman have made an impression – a negative impression.
Hell, I was all set to vote for McCain until he chose whack-job Palin for his running mate.
“Do as I say and not as I do” Bachman
No no. She’s ‘Do as I meant to say, not as I say, not as I do!’ Utterly hopeless. Shame on the dimwits who elected that mentally challenged fag hag to Congress.
(And no, I have nothing against hags, or fags for that matter. Just blatantly lamebrain lunatics who marry obvious closet cases).
Nice try, but too late. You let your true anti-pink colours show.
@F10T12
How do you spell asshole (see above for a hint).
You had a republican president who initiated free trade with Canada and now you gripe about seeing a few Canadian things floating around. Like we see nothing American made here in Canada?
Is it painful to be this ignorant? Does medication help?
Buddy, do you even OWN any Apple products?
nice comment on the Carbon footprint.
I’d refer the question to the US Secret Service.
They own the bus, and a duplicate for when the GOP nominee is announced. The vehicles in the entourage vary greatly on each trip, but they are all dictated by the USSS. No President has had control over that in years.
From the smile on their faces I’m guessing they are looking at the Fart app….
I thought Obama used a Blackberry because it was government-issued when he was a Senator.
No need to bother posting facts. These fools don’t bother with such things.
Looking at that Michell Bachman eating sausage photo I’m sure.
Re “MacDailyNews Take: Shall we play a game? …A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?”
Oh, WOPR, how we have missed you. Now those of us who remember will watch the film again…. And scoff at your girth and DOS prompt.
They are watching “how to not get your ass kicked by the po-lice – chris rock show”. LOL
I will say it once more… The problem lies with neither Dems or Republicans but with the outdated wage slave model. As tech solutions take over the production of goods, there is no need for workers… If the current system continues there will be even more people who cannot procure ” money” to sustain the constant consumption required to fuel the current Econ system.
In addition the current constant consumption system cannot be sustained by the finite supply of raw materials. Oil is but one item soon to be depleted… If you think we have problems now… See what happens in 10 to 15 years…
I ran out of toilet paper. I was thinking about printing this picture and wiping my ass with it until i run up to the store.
You are funny. Really. That was pure genius there. Man, you are a FUUUHNNYYY person. Whoo! Tearing up with the laughter here.
shut up.
“Obama is an iPad user”
OK. so who’s the PoliTard in the White House who ordered all the iPad wannabe Blackberry PlayBooks™? Slick movement. I’m not cleaning that up! 😕