“Count the president of the United States as among those who are intrigued by the new iPhone 6,” Julie Hirschfeld Davis reports for The New York Times. “In New York this week to meet with world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama spotted one of the devices being used by Bahrain’s ambassador, according to a pool report.”
“As journalists were being hustled out of a meeting between Mr. Obama and Middle Eastern leaders who are being urged to join the United States’ expanding offensive against the Islamic State, the president was overheard asking the ambassador whether his phone was the new 6. Indeed, he was told, it was,” Davis reports. “It was small talk that may have been designed to evade more serious questions about world events; the chat came just after Mr. Obama ignored a reporter’s shouted query about whether he was comfortable being seen as a “war president.”
Davis reports, “Still, it suggested that Mr. Obama, known for clinging to his BlackBerry in an increasingly smartphone-dominated world, is not immune from coveting Apple’s newest craze.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Attribution: Cult of Mac. Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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Since Carter and horn dog Clinton we know Presidents have “lust in their hearts.” Apparently for technology too.
At least his BlackBerry works.
Nothing in the article suggests desire for the phone, let alone “lust.” It says he asked a diplomat if the phone he was carrying was the new model which had been the subject of a lot of news (some of it very bad) in the preceding few days.
Thank you Fandroid Ben Stein.
haha cool!!
Well, when you’re married to a tranny, you need somewhere to place your lust. Oh, please, we all know.
It’s a shame you never really know how much people meant to you until they’re gone. Miss you, Joan!
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“War president”?
Alas, true. Bombing territories with terrorists usually recruits more terrorists than kills because civilian casualties are inevitable. It has never worked in any of historical cases, including latest ones with Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, so on.
So this policy is highly questionable in terms of actual effectiveness, all while being highly profitable for corrupt Pentagon/contractors/weapons/ammo manufacturers.
Rand Paul is right questioning this policy.
Oh man, you’re totally on to something big! Strapping six terrorists to the belly of an F-22, flying the border of Syria. Imagine you and your friends squatting in the dirt assembling an IED, when suddenly you hear this screaming and look up and see your habibi flying at you out of the sky at the speed of sound. Bombing terrorists with terrorists. So perfect.
Hey, that’s as cool as my idea for illegal aliens in the Southwest. I’d build huge trebuchets to hurl them back over the border; when Pedro and Chiquita see their offspring flying back and splattering on the ground they might get a clue. And just to show I have a heart I’d give the little buggers a taco and Corona for the flight home.
This Country would be better off if the Obamanation used a string and cans. The less he communicate the better
That is all true and fine, but I’m curious to hear exactly what is the correct solution for ISIS? IN case you haven’t noticed, that “state” has grown in size and in zealotry to the point that it is completely self-reliant, thanks to plenty of oil wells that they now control, and an endless pool of fresh new recruits. Civilian casualties certainly create fresh new terrorists, but I’m not sure the solution is to leave them alone.
I would really like to hear about an effective solution that would neutralise ISIS that doesn’t involve military option.
A few well placed nukes would go a long way shutting these bastards down. Maybe after taking out a few hundred thousand of them, they’ll realize just how futile it is to mess with the most powerful nation in the world. Time to stop playing PattyCake with these brainwashed nut jobs. They only understand one thing, and we should show them the error of their ways. Better than having a 30 year protracted war costing us trillions of dollars and thousands of American casualties.
I was hoping for a serious answer…
I’m not sure, though, if you actually meant placing nukes (as in, strategically placing launch facilities for a few ballistic missiles close enough to pose a real and imminent threat), or you meant actually using nuclear warheads to bomb populated areas (and kill ordinary population).
They wouldn’t hesitate for one moment to do it to us. They lust to get a nuke into Manhattan Harbor and taking out a few million New Yorkers. They’ve already taken down the WTC, so it’s no big reach for them to nuke us. How many nukes are floating around from the old soviet satellites. Sooner or later, they’re going to succeed. They’ll never give up trying and are very determined to do as much possible damage as they possibly can. Do you really think people who hack the heads off innocent people care about collateral damage? We shouldn’t either. Time for playing games is over. It’s either us or them. They can all go to heaven and have their 70 virgins. We should help them on their way. As long as they exist, there will never be civility in the world.
I believe this is more-or-less exactly what the American president said yesterday at the UN:
…”No God condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning – no negotiation – with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death. ”
They won’t “nuke” them, but they’ll go in and kill them, every one of them, no matter how many more are recruited.
I’m really not sure there are any alternative solutions to this ISIS problem that are better.
I have little sympathy, compassion or time for terrorists posing as religious purists invoking the name of God to behead children. And I have no faith in a peaceful coexistence between them and everyone else. I think the rest of the world needs to quit equivocating and start acting — hard. And maybe there’s a reason there’s an ebola breakout right now.
are you truly that stupid?
do you think reasoning with them might be more efficacious?
perhaps offering them some sort of incentive? a time-share in the hamptons? or maybe 70 virgins right here right now? where would you find 70 little boys? even 0bama and the royals don’t have that kind of resource.
it’s time to give your head a shake.
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I think your response must have been to someone else, who argued that military strikes against ISIS is the wrong way (check back on this thread). I have simply asked if anyone could give me a better option (in essence, arguing that there are no good choices for fighting them that don’t involve a military option).
Are you truly that stupid as to not even comprehend what others are saying? (See, I can be offensive too)
Obama doesn’t deserve a iphone! A android is better suited for him. Hope he gets hacked
I don’t give a crap what Obama thinks about the new iPhones. Instead of lusting after iPhones he should concentrate on doing his damn job.
Absolutely correct! And if Congress decides that they can best represent the citizens of the United States by taking off August, September, October and half of November (doing the absolute minimum to keep the government running) then that is 100% Obama’s fault too!
And with the SCOTUS ruling that a couple congressmen and a couple senators can show up, call the body into session, agree that there’s nothing to act upon, then adjourn — every few days — so that the POTUS cannot do any out of session actions, then the U.S. Government is essentially shut down for three months. A good way to guarantee that nothing, absolutely nothing substantive gets done by Congress or the President for three months.
I’m sure we’d all like to take three months paid vacation just so we can make sure we keep our jobs.
But don’t forget, this wholesale sabotage of two out of three branches of government is, according to Fox, Obama’s fault. Now watch as wing nuts like Firsty and Botty say Obama is the one on vacation. It’s ALWAYS projection with them.
If, instead of just complaining, ALL voters would refuse to vote for ANY incumbent this problem would resolve itself rather quickly. Getting thrown out on their ears is the only thing these fools fear.
Can’t he play a little golf?
American made a big mistake. Then repeated it for good measure.
Character counts and experience matters.
“The fact of the matter is that the social safety net in this country became a hammock a long time ago, and it simply isn’t accurate to say, ‘We don’t take care of our own.’ We have to the tune of $22 trillion. The problem is we have not taught people to be self-reliant and self-sufficient.” – Rush Limbaugh
Didn’t take too long for Firsty to show up and spill his usual bile. Can Botty be far behind?
Notice he never comments on anything Apple?
Obama owns an iPad and has for quite some time. The Blackberry is also an NSA special- not an off the rack Blackberry.