“It’s just one tool among a number of tools that I’m trying to use, to break out of the bubble, to make sure that people can still reach me,” he said.
“If I’m doing something stupid, somebody in Chicago can send me an email and say, ‘What are you doing?’
“I want to be able to have voices, other than the people who are immediately working for me, be able to reach out and send me a message about what’s happening in America.”
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090117/tc_afp/uspoliticsobamainternetblackberry_20090117021454
He is entirely clueless about the amount of email that gets sent ...clueless.
He is not clueless. The reasons he gives are smoke and mirrors.
The clueless ones are those who take what he says at face value. We must NOT.
He insistence on keeping his Blackberry is far more sinister
See my post #50