Chill Out! Obama Doesn’t Hate Your iPad

First things first: We already knew that Barack Obama was Blackberry/PC guy, right? Perhaps even a Zune guy? So his “admission” that he doesn’t know how to work an iPod shouldn’t be a total shock.

More interesting: Wouldn’t it be weird if the President of the United States gave a speech about the education gap, made a passing reference to technology’s ability to distract us — and then the short attention span media made it look like he was coming for your Twitter account?

Not weird, you say? Just kind of predictable?

OK. So here, for the record, are Obama’s prepared remarks for his commencement address at Hampton University yesterday. It clocks in at more than 2,000 words (the speech he actually delivered was a tiny bit longer), but if you slug your way through it, you’ll find that your iPad is probably safe.

Don’t like to read? No problem — you can also watch the 22-minute speech. The White House posted it on its Web site last night.