Caption Obama promotes science, technology, engineering and mathematics education

[Lucky9teen]

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) watches on as the "Cougar Cannon" robot throws a ball at a student from Oakton High School following Obama's remarks on science, technology, engineering and math education initiatives in the Eisenhower Executive Office building in Washington, November 23, 2009.


U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about initiatives to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics education while in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, November 23, 2009

[maggief]

Bowing to robots is "protocol?"

[2banana]

"Cougar Cannon"

Where is Bill Clinton???

[JennysCool]

President Obama reads his speech from the new "teletrampotor."

[Lucky9teen]

Jaime Hyneman, left, and Adam Savage, right, co-host of the television program 'MythBusters', take their seat before the start of the program with President Barack Obama at the Executive Office Building in the White House complex, in Washington, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Obama spoke about several initiatives designed to boost science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.


For our next show, lets bust the myth that this Obama is all that....

[luckystarmom]

Why promote this if there aren’t any jobs in this area?????

How about promoting jobs!!!!!!!

[albie]

Dipshi& knows of course that this kind of innovative and creative thinking will be all but null and void when/if his plan for all out socialism occurs. Incentive, drive, initiative and will to succeed will be stamped out with government controlled salaries.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I wish they would hurry up with this crap!....I have taxpayers to screw!....

[trisham]

What a shame. Obama is sooo busy he doesn't have time to address the issue regarding Afghanistan.

[digger48]

"I just spent $100 million of your taxpayer dollars for a week in asia.....and all I got was couple of Chinese kids in t-shirts."

[devere]

My son is about to earn his BS in Mechanical Engineering, but will there be any job for him to do?

I on the other hand got my first computer job with almost no formal training. There was a strong demand, and I could do the job, and that’s all that mattered.

The economy comes first, second, and third, and necessary education and training will take care of itself.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Possibly Jaime Hyneman and Adam Savage are life partners???

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Yeah, I hear he no one in his cabinet and none of his commissars could explain what a trillion is.

[Pyro7480]

Nah, I don’t think they’re “that way.”

[TexasCajun]

Obamah was born in Hawaii!? ...Do we dare?

[BenKenobi]

If only...

[TexasCajun]

Dog! Da Prez Always Has The Best Bud!

[TheConservativeParty]

The husband and I love to watch MythBusters!
Those 2 are a hoot.

PS to Las Vegas Dave, I am glad to report that Jaime and Adam are not, not, not homosexuals! Ew!

Pretty sure they both have wives and kids. And these two do some really manly stuff on the show. The Gaydar does not go off when I watch the show. And I’ve seen it for many years. These guys shoot all kinds of weapons, use explosives, do all kinds of stuff a fluff would never be interested in.

[reagan_fanatic]

"I'd like to think the students from Oakton High School for their latest invention, which immobilizes an unsuspecting taxpayer while sucking his wallet dry...what's that? Oh - I guess this is some sort of "Cougar Cannon" robot thingy that throws balls or something...damn."

[TexasCajun]

For what it's worth, from Wikipedia:

Savage and his wife Julia were married in 2003. He has twin sons from a previous relationship.[10] He wears a hearing aid on his left ear due to a congenital condition.[11] Savage has also contributed nearly $5000 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

[matt1234]

[Outlaw Woman]

"Geez.....how long do I have to keep giving these f'ng speeches to these peons. What the hell is hold up on collapsing this f'ng Country. (Those f'ng constitutionalists, they're ruining everything.....must revert to Plan 'B')"

[a fool in paradise]

Obama: "So that is one of those bomb disposal units, my pal Bill Ayers told me about them once."

[a fool in paradise]

BO:"Presidenting is HARD, stay in skool, kids!"

[a fool in paradise]

the "Cougar Cannon"

[a fool in paradise]

he has a beard

[arbooz]

[Waverunner]

Drop it 50 and fire for effect.

[bray]

This photop should get him to 20% unemployment.

Pray for America’s Freedom

[nascarnation]

These dumbass kids think they're gonna have careers here in science and engineering. Everybody knows with us in charge all the money is in lawyering.....

[a fool in paradise]

The jobs are going to India, where they can pay for TWO employees with benefits for the price of one salaried employee.

Until he stops the offshoring of tech jobs (where the work is smuggled in via internet without taxes on the million dollar software), it’ll be cost ineffective for a student to buy (money and time) a science degree. It’s a bad investment in one’s future.