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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Poor choice of words. :)
As soon as it gets out that he has kept it, someone is going to hack his Blackberry or power it on remotely and start some crappola. If only I had the skills.
I'll be the first to say it.....and I'm going to bookmark it.
Barak Obama is pathological and a danger to our Republic.
An ever-growing body of evidence supports this.
Leni
If he does and persists he is a traitor.
If not he is TDS to be president.
I wonder if he can use a jump drive too?
The PEBO is a walking security hole.
Cripes, you’d think it was a handgun or something.
“I want to be able to hear voices”...
I was not aware Satan needed a blackberry to talk with Obama.
Are there Whiteberries available?
I agree.
How else is the Queen of Diamonds supposed to communicate with The One?
Obama appears to believe that he can be President and dictate the terms and boundaries of the job. He can still get 90 minutes of exercise a day, he can have a blackberry, he can go back to his house in Chicago ever ‘4-6 weeks’ and not have some ‘vacation place like Kennebunkport’.
I'd like to see Obama play golf, go to the gym, play footsie in Chicago that's all fine with me. If it keeps him from signing bad laws. Yeah, I'll accept a do nothing pres.
So what’s his number? I have a few ideas I wanna run by him. /s
So this is about black Barry’s Blackberry?
Black Barry should be getting a kick back from Blackberry!
Did they name it after him?
Just what I thought, booty call for blackB@rry.
Oh...and my phone calls to him. hehe
This is ONLY the beginning.....I predict there will be an Obama MAGAZINE....an OBAMA TV Channel....(dedicated 100% to him)....an Obama house design....an Obama suit....a pair of Obama shoes.....an Obama car....an Obama BlackBerry....Obama bedding.....you get the gist....
He must not have taken his Blackberry to church because he surely didn’t know what was going on there.
I need a pair of Rockports with Obama’s mug etched on the sole.
Famous last words. Who among us has not sent out an email that we wish we hadn't? Sometimes it's just a comment that looks bad in print, sometimes it's the risque joke that goes to the whole office instead of your friend in the next cubicle, but don't tell me the Messiah is so special he'll never send out an email that will be misinterpreted. The man's a moron.
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