Today has been a pretty slow day on Destructoid and consequently, I find my mind wandering to the upcoming Presidential election. Now don’t run away, I’m going to keep this game related, I promise.

A lot of talk has been going around lately that my personal pick for the next President of the United States, Barack Obama, is anti-video game. I thought I could use this time to set the record straight.

When one of the news outlets is reporting on Obama’s alleged anti-video game stance, the often use a quote such as this one:

“We're going to have to parent better, and turn off the television set, and put the video games away, and instill a sense of excellence in our children, and that's going to take some time.”
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This quote is exactly what I want to hear from a politician. It doesn’t mean Obama wants to ban video games, like some people have interpreted. What he is stressing is the need for parents to take control of their children and help them make the right decisions in life. This means doing things that gamers have been asking for forever, like keeping M rated games out of the hands of minors. He seems worried about our nation’s youth, just as we all should be. It’s not just video games that are the problem either, which is why he mentions TV as well, yet that is never focused on by people reporting on this quote.

So my point is this, you don’t have to like Obama, I don’t care. Just don’t hate him because he is allegedly anti-video game, because he’s not. All I am asking is, come election time, get out and vote. I don’t care if you vote republican or democrat, conservative or liberal. Just vote. And don’t vote Clinton.

UPDATE: This guy should be considered a hero. He is on a live Fox News broadcast with another comedian and he takes the opportunity to trash Fox News. It's short and worth a watch.