Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Obama and the iPhone: No common ground?


(Credit: JamesLee490/YouTube Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

Agreement in politics seems about as common as subtlety in Charlie Sheen.


The media find glee in reporting the latest skirmish, the latest name-calling, the latest tit-for-tit. Who can be surprised, then, that recent reports suggest the President and the iPhone simply don't see eye to ear?


As the Washington Times dialed it in, the President was in Port St. Lucie, Fla. a couple of days ago and decided to call some campaign workers.


Marvin Nicholson, his trip director, offered up his own iPhone for the task, one that became a little more arduous than some might have imagined.


Words like "befuddled" flowed from the keyboards of reporters who were present. It seemed as if the President couldn't find his way around the iPhone's keys.


"Oh, I got to dial it in. Hold on, hold on. I can do this. See, I still have a BlackBerry," the President reportedly explained.


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