Posted on 01/16/2009 4:57:14 PM PST by Red Steel
Despite legal and security hurdles, president-elect Barack Obama says he has a plan to retain his beloved Blackberry once he moves into the White House next week.
Interviewed by CNN Friday, Obama said the smartphone was among the tools that he would use to stay in touch with real Americans and avoid becoming trapped inside the presidential "bubble."
"I think we're going to be able to hang on to one of these. My working assumption, and this is not new, is that anything I write on an email could end up being on CNN," he said.
"So I make sure to think before I press 'send'," he said of his Blackberry, which was an ever-present fixture on his belt or in his hand on the campaign trail.
Obama did not divulge just how he will overcome legal constraints, given the requirement of the post-Watergate Presidential Records Act of 1978 to keep a record of every White House communication.
Nor did he say how he would persuade his Secret Service protectors that the Blackberry does not pose a security risk, for instance if it is hacked over the air.
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"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."
The mobile device dilemma may have inadvertently been solved on Friday, as Obama's Blackberry tumbled from his belt as he got out of his limousine
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His loss our gain.
I had to look that up.
*ouch*
And don't kid yourselves this so called HONEYMOON is a LOVE AFFAIR that will last the entire time this Obamaman is in office!!
We are days from entering uncharted waters and I fear for our nation!
BIG TIME!!
If it was a Whiteberry he would probably tax it to death then throw it under his bus with grandma.
Can’t GPS or someother tracking practice follow his everymove? They could find him at Camp David or where he travels at any place or time. I don’t know how terrorists set off bombs thru cellphones, but I would not want to be carrying one at anytime. If they can’t do that now, I am sure they will figure it out.
The Secret Service should come out and say if he doesn’t give it up he is not our responsibility.
Seems like he has to be told what to do quite a bit of the time. The man can’t think for himself.
so louis farrakhan and his goons can step in? LOL
Obviously Obama feels pretty confident that the Republicans will be cowed into meek submission by the propaganda press which will see no evil for the next 4 or (God forbid) 8 years.
Yep Nation Of Islam will protect Barry Sotero.
Or is that Barak Huissen Obama,,,, I can never keep up. :^)
Would those be the Louie-con wing of the Zer0 Loonie-cons?
so real people can reach him? ...oh please
The Secret Service has its ways.
Poor reception. Interrupted service. Unexpected messages.
We’ll see who prevails: The obsessive President or the Bureaucracy.
Bill Ayers will send Obama his daily marching orders.
Yup.
bingo! Just what I was thinking
The tracking is easy, unless his particular Blackberry has been rigged to eliminate the GPS function (Secret Service would probably insist on that). Even then, it could still be loosely tracked through cell tower triangulation, but that's not as precise.
Terrorists have used cell phones to set off bombs, but they can't make the cell phone itself explode unless they can rig it with explosives. Then again, I'm not sure that terrorists would have any reason to harm an ally.
He reminds me of my husband. I think he loves his iPhone more than me. :) (Well, his whole life seems on that phone.)
I bet some clever soul knows how to turn on the microphone without alerting the owner...
Speaking of which, how would you like to be an SS agent and have to protect the grand marxist? I'd bet that there'll be a rash of early retirements in the agency soon.
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