Even our new President moderately demonizes Video Games

President Obama recently gave a speech to the American Medical Association.

It was your basic healthcare, healthy Americans, insurance, making the world a better place fodder, but one particular thing Barry said definitely caught my attention.

“The second step that we can all agree on is to invest more in preventive care so that we can avoid illness and disease in the first place. That starts with each of us taking more responsibility for our health and the health of our children. It means quitting smoking, going in for that mammogram or colon cancer screening. It means going for a run or hitting the gym, and

raising our children to step away from the video games and spend more time playing outside.”

It’s such a tired stereotype isn’t it? An intelligent and knowledgeable person would not want to use such trivial and immature dribble, but yet Obama uses the act of playing video games to contrast with not spending time outside and not being healthy.

I’m saddened by even the above stock image I’ve used for this post. Just look at the two children, their delicious Chinese, and the Xbox controller sitting next to the boy. That nasty little Xbox controller. Perhaps Obama would recommend that fat Xbox controller be replaced with a Wii remote. After all it’s slender and his own family has one in the White House. Barry obviously meant all video games besides Wii in speech.

While Obama mentions that parents should take obvious responsibility, he kills his whole meaningful quotable quip about being healthy with the ridiculous notion that video games are fattening and not rich in soluble fiber.

Not that I ever thought that a president could represent gamers, but I do think that a President should be knowledgeable.

Pipe dream.