MSNBC:
Sorry, Mr. President. Please surrender your BlackBerry.
Those are seven words President-elect Barack Obama is dreading but expecting to hear, friends and advisers say, when he takes office in 65 days.
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President Elect Obama is MY CHOICE for President , I am concerned about his backing Lieberman and choosing hillary foe SOS and do not worry Barack Nancy Pelosi will still get orders to you !!!
Study Lincoln, study Roosevelt, and you will know exactly what he is doing...Re
Amen. And we should not fear this approach at all. He knows what he is doing.
What a shame. Obama is the first President smart enough to use a BLACKBERRY>
I seriously doubt that. I have a crackberry and it really isn't very difficult to operate. Even a dumb conservative like me can operate it. I do turn off the notifications since I get about 70 messages a day. I don't like to type more than one sentence in a reply.
The world's first honest conservative.
Dang. I feel very old. I don't know the difference between a Blackberry and a Crackberry. It sounds like one of them is on drugs :)
Dang. I feel very old. I don't know the difference between a Blackberry and a Crackberry. It sounds like one of them is on dr. ugs or something :)
They just want ot keep up with him.
If the military can filter classified and unclassified e-mail correspondence bet. the outside world, why can't they safely do the same for the Pres?
How will he receive orders from his corporate masters now?
The same way you recieve messages like the one you just posted. Take off that tin foil hat, please.
hahahahahahahahaha good one!
DUDE! This is a place for intelligent conversation. I think you got a little lost so let me point you to the forum you were looking for www.thedru
lol. thanks
ROTFLMAO. You told him!
Thank you, oh wise one. Save us. Tell us who will show us the true way.
Obviously no one with a (D) next to his name.
Nader, once again, was the right choice this election.
Me too, but I would have to because my teenagers are telling me there is nothing cool about a mom who can text without looking! Although I never took a job where "typing" was in the description, my early secretarial training did prepare me well for "modern" times! My husband, a psychotherapist, tells me that one of the biggest complaints kids have about their parents is their addiction to their blackberry
So the president isn't allowed to be connected to the rest of the world via the internet?
He is allowed to correspond with whoever he wants through whatever means he wants, but he is not allowed to keep any of that correspondence private - it shall all be out in the open. So he CAN keep his Blackburry, but he can't keep it private - everything has to be shared & recorded. That includes private messages sent to his wife or kids or friends (something I wouldn't want to share if anyone under any circumstan
In either case, of course he should have a lap top - whether it's connected to the internet or not. Not to have one is like not having access to a pen & paper...
isn't it amazing that the president can't enjoy the right to privacy? after W and cheney I totally understand why this is necessary, but it's sad that they can't enjoy the same rights they were elected to uphold.
Bush gave up e-mail to avoid discovery (in the sense of discovery of evidence of illegal activity).
He must be so grateful to John McCain for inventing it. ;) How ironic that having beaten JM in the election, he'll have to give it up now.
I agree, the techies should be able to get around this for him somehow. Yes! They can!
I feel for the guy, really. He's giving up a lot. I'm sure the techies could figure out a way to 'wire' the White House and Capital Hill. Man, has that place been in the Dark Ages with Bush. Looks like we've got a techie President who will modernize the White House, one way or another.
This frightens me...reall
Well techinically he is not and will never be we have something that it above him its called our Constitution. Thats what separates democracies from dictatorship thankfully.
Carol
What does the Constitution have to do with a Blackberry? Obama wants to be in control of his own schedule and his own time.
he should be able to use it to connect with family ..maybe a select list of just close family and it should be private
I'm a techie and work for a local county gov't. We have strict public records law and we use a Blackberry Enterprise server. It basically sync's w/ an Exchange server. Any and all communications can be archived on that Exchange server. The BB is just a tool, no different than a PC getting email from the same source.
I bet the transition team/secrect service/cia/etc can figure that one out if he REALLY wants a BB to keep up to date.
Personal email, however, will probably have to be avoided :\. I feel his pain, I'm an avid BB user too!!
It's his longtime personal email address that's in question. *Someone* around him is going to have a Blackberry to check messages, and he will certainly have some sort of Smartphone to use to browse the web if he wants. It's not about limiting what the man can access. It's about limiting access to the man. An army of aides carrying Blackberries will surround him at all times.
Are you kidding me no other President have a laptop on their desk. No wonder we are falling behind technologically. Thank goodness we now have a 21st century President.
Carol
All it would take is one forwarded email to go viral and modified and then the impeachment calls will come in.
The best approach would to have a website that is filtered and moderated where Q's can be submitted and of course this will give the SS immediate IP tracking of the submitter.
Responses can be via authorized staff or be dealt with on a forum basis so that it is all there in real time.
All these would be difficult to control - I guess one would need vetting to be able to participate.
At the end of the day, I doubt that there would be any returns correspondence from the WH unless released through audited channels.
The more public he is the more he risks criticism - I guess we will have to be happy with the press and their commentaries from here on in.
No wonder Bush was in a bubble of non-reality. This president must be kept in the loop of all information on what is going on in the country and the world. This is a serious matter that the techs need to fix before he assumes office.
How does not checking your personal email address keep you out of the loop? This is not about *WEB ACCESS*. This is about an old email address. He can spend all the time on the web he deems necessary.
Why can't the Blackberry messages be routed through the White House System so he can stay directly in touch with the OUTSIDE world while still having his messages recorded!
Come ON People get some "TECHIES" on this NOW!
Its not that they don't have the ability to record the messages. Its whether or not the President wants to submit to having all electronic messages preserved for public record. I'm sure its not that they are too worried about their own privacy but more the privacy of others that may e-mail them. This includes phone calls too. All phone calls made to or from the president are logged.
Yup, Obama is gonna have to change too... and I'm sure that the techies will develop an excellent system for him to "communicate" there will be private channels..
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First Posted: 11-15-08 11:06 PM | Updated: 12-16-08 05:12 AM