Comments on: President-Elect Obama Visits White House Today

By: Karen Mayes

Karen Mayes — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:33:40 +0000

I bet that Bush’s popularity will slowly rise as he prepares to leave White House… already the media is being nice… check out this link:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/11/bush.post.presidency/index.html

By: Karen Mayes

Karen Mayes — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:30:07 +0000

Hmmm… historians will rewrite Bush’s time at the White House… time has a way of making any presidents look more kind or human. Like Nixon was well-liked just before his death.

I am sure when Obama makes a mistake, Bush will look good… tis the way of media. I don’t envy Obama for his upcoming presidency… especially in these rough times.

By: red

red — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:55:36 +0000

I hope they hid the silverware, the SObama’s will probably loot the White House as the Clinton’s did.

By: White Ghost

White Ghost — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:21:45 +0000

Better not tell your son about Mary Jane at the Love Fest or Woodstock. Even plze better not to tell him about the nude thing, even the three letters on the ground. That *WAS* the 60′s……shhhh….

Gotta love to be hippie in the ole’ days. Good people around the world are the hippies, even today. Peace out.

Be good to him, Sheri.

By: Sheri A. Farinha

Sheri A. Farinha — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:31:41 +0000

Paotie, smile….Hippie years were definitely unkind to Hippie ears! Which reminds me, I cracked up when my son text’d me last month that he was with a group of kids, on their way to SF to attend the “Love Fest”. I said, “what the heck is a love fest?” He said, “its where a whole lotta people get together and give a lotta love!” Lol! I said, “ohhhh you mean like as in Woodstock from the ’60′s?” Smile, apparently so!

Annyyhoo…where was I? Oh…captioning web-based videos is a huge beef of all of ours…I dont think its covered under 225 – FCC regs. Lemme double check…and ummm…I think its rather the case for the “Candidates impaired” as its the case with most campaigns. But okay okay, Obama is da man now so undy the “need” target to him.

By: Paotie

Paotie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:08:31 +0000

Sheri ..

I hope the Obama Impaireds realize that there are currently some 30+ million Americans who would benefit from captioning/subtitles. And! That figure is expected to grow significantly over the next decade as Baby Boomers lose their hearing (Hippie years were unkind to Hippie ears?)

A little common sense would also suggest that captioning/subtitles HELPS GET THE MESSAGE OUT. (Caps added for the Obama Impaired).

By: Candy

Candy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:44:10 +0000

Yeah, I guess that is covered under section 508. Lawsuit should be the last resort. I think we need to remind them of their requirement first before we do anything drastic. Come to think of it, many agencies are stuck with less budget for FY 09 than they were for FY 08. Even so, they should be able to find someone to subtitle it since it is free online….

Let me tell you something about government….remember the toilet seat fiasco years ago? Nothing has changed. Government has contracts with several vendors who normally charge high rate to government entities whereas the same vendor would charge a lower rate with the public for like items. This still exists to this day. Perhaps this is one thing that Obama’s team needs to look into, to save money and use the “wasted” money for other programs like effective captioning.

By: Sheri A. Farinha

Sheri A. Farinha — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:22:10 +0000

Paotie, totally agree – and I did mention it to folks involved with his campaign prior to the elections. They did have some success in getting many videos captioned that were shown, but many of us were unaware because it was located under the “media” tab on the campaign website. Now this new one, I have contacted the same folks requesting that this be brought to his attention as its beyond frustrating! Agree with netrox. Actually, how many of us demand this of our own Governor in our own states about their videos not being captioned?

By: netrox

netrox — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:12:55 +0000

deaf people should band together and demand that videos be captioned and threaten a lawsuit if they aren’t captioned since ADA requires the government to provide accessbility.

By: Ann_C

Ann_C — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:00:31 +0000

Interesting that Obama addresses all Americans, including minorities, “disabled and non-disabled”, in his victory speech. Unfortunately, for the d/Deaf, the speech is not captioned.

Or are we “non-disabled”?