Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (761482)	1/5/2014 4:35:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573927

President Couch Potato: .... a story from Sunday’s New York Times that addresses his TV viewing preferences: These days, when Mr. Obama retreats to the White House residence after a long day on the other end of the colonnade, he is working his way through the DVD box set of AMC’s ‘Breaking Bad’…. Friends say Mr. Obama is also keenly awaiting the new season of the Netflix show ‘House of Cards.’… Mr. Obama is also a devotee of Showtime’s ‘Homeland.’… And the list of heavies continues. Mr. Obama has told people he is a big fan of ‘Game of Thrones.’… He has raved about ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and the BBC’s ‘Downton Abbey.’… And he has worked his way through the DVDs of AMC’s smoldering ‘Mad Men’ series. Obama is also enamored, Times writer Michael Shear adds, of HBO’s ‘The Wire,’ ‘Real Housewives,’ ‘Glee’ ABC’s ‘Modern Family’ and NBC’s ‘Parks and Recreation’ and ESPN’s ‘SportsCenter.’ The clear sense of the article is that despite the pomp and circumstance that are perks of the job that used to be designated as “leader of the free world,” Barack Obama is just another couch potato, no worse and no better than the denizens of the middle class he claims he wants to help. (Well, better maybe in that the article makes no mention of “Duck Dynasty” as one of the shows he curls up in front of with a bowl of popcorn.) No one is criticizing the president’s tastes in viewing, but his TV habits — or at least the number of series, most with running times of one hour, that he professes to watch — do raise a question: When does he find time to play golf? Read more: newsbusters.org You know, it's probably a good thing he's not a workaholic. Wish he'd take longer vacations too.