Posted on 11/27/2008 7:20:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's become a cause for some: to let Barack Obama keep his BlackBerry when he takes office.
What stands in the way? The primary concern has been the Presidential Records Act, which requires all presidential documents to be put in the official record.
Now, realistically, no matter what people say, it's not so much about national security as it is as making sure that if a "Watergate" happens, We The People have plenty of evidence to back it up. Ans as that's the issue, what's the problem.
We can track his cell phone calls. We can track his emails. So let him keep the BlackBerry (shoot, let him get a BlackBerry Bold or Storm if he wants).
Last night Barbara Walters had an exclusive interview with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on ABC. Besides suggesting a dog for the Obamas (who doesn't nowadays?), she ask him about his beloved BlackBerry.
"One of the things that I'm going to have to work through is how to break through the isolation, the bubble that exists around the president. And I'm in the process of negotiating with the Secret Service, with lawyers, with White House staff ... to figure out how can I get information from outside of the 10 or 12 people who surround my office in the White House? Because one of the worst things I think that can happen to a president is losing touch with the struggles that people are going through every day."
After all, he has to be able to keep in touch with Oprah. Seriously, though, Obama used technology to his advantage during the election. He's going to be the first president with a laptop (though we don't know if it's going to be Windows or Mac --- I predict Windows because it's probably easier to fit into the rest of the White House IT infrastructure), so why not the first President with a BlackBerry?
Otherwise, our President may be experiencing the withdrawal shown in this video:
...just barely. Very tall, 13-year-old male. *roll eyes*
Doesn't he want to talk with his wife? his children?
I wonder how much that blackberry is worth to him.
His CoLB is worth at least 800K+
He's turning out to be temper tantrum messiah
Barky, give up the presidency or the blackberry. Ya can't have both. Now, got to your room and GROW UP!
>>>”One of the things that I’m going to have to work through is how to break through the isolation, the bubble that exists around the president. And I’m in the process of negotiating with the Secret Service, with lawyers, with White House staff ... to figure out how can I get information from outside of the 10 or 12 people who surround my office in the White House? Because one of the worst things I think that can happen to a president is losing touch with the struggles that people are going through every day.”
0bama won’t be able to call up his handlers when he freaks out or gets confused. How will he ask Ayers, Farrakahn or Soros (Or Chaves, or whoever his secret friends are) what to do if he can’t have untrackable calls?
What a lame excuse. The more he opens his mouth, the more he exposes himself as a coarse, stupid, lying thug.
Excellent post! Post of the day.
Interesting post.
Do you know which decades in the 20th century (before the 1970s) have failed a produce a President? (Birth Date)
His Blackberry among other notable functions listed here on this thread is also his high tech “crib sheet.” At any given time George Soros can whisper (text) the right (sarcasm) thing to say or do.
Soros texts,” Remember to say we have wide bi-partisan support here. We have Republican Economists supporting our plan to spend to a silly oblivion..blah blah blah..it will get our economy back on track...blah blah blah”
Polly want a cracker! Sickening.
The 30s and the 50s?
All the Pres-elect needs to lose his Blackberry forever is tyo have one of h9is “private”messages leak out to the press.Or even worse,a leftist blogger.
So his handlers can tell him what to say in public.
Well ... he should have known what he was getting into.
I would love to tell him to stop whining. Act like a professional. And most of all ... grow up.
Absolutely Correct!
sounds like he wants to call up the single mother of five who has to chooes between feeding her family or buying medicine for her dying father, or the unemployed auto worker who is struggling to keep his house.
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