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Obama Clinging To Forbidden Blackberry
Presidents Gotta Give Up The E-Mail Ghost
New York, 9:37 PM
Mon Nov 30
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11/27/08
Blame it on those igloo Canadians for inventing it. It's a national epidemic, eh?
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11/26/08
Unless there's some other law I'm not familiar with I don't see where the problem is, legally speaking.
11/26/08
Barry: im s0 1337 taht i pwn ur ss @ss n00bs! W00t LOLZ!!!11!
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That would be sweet. "Simulated emailing" just so he stays in shape for after his presidency and jumps back into the game.
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11/26/08
Agreed. One of the reason he's so smart is that he has a broad awareness of what is going on with people, the country, the world. Why try and limit his perspective? It's part of his intelligence.
Let the man keep his damn Blackberry.
11/26/08
[[Diana Owen, who leads the American Studies program at Georgetown University, said presidents were not advised to use e-mail because of security risks and fear that messages could be intercepted.
"They could come up with some bulletproof way of protecting his e-mail and digital correspondence, but anything can be hacked," said Ms. Owen, who has studied how presidents communicate in the Internet era. "The nature of the president's job is that others can use e-mail for him."]] NYT
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11/26/08
I want to know where to pick up an application for the position of Space Pope. Will there be drug testing? Can I still keep my current job and Space Pope in the evenings and weekends?
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11/26/08
LEO Yes sir. We have to talk about the bunker.
BARTLET I'm not going to the bunker.
LEO Sir...
BARTLET I'm not going to the bunker. It sends a terrible sign. I'm sitting in this room.
LEO Ron and I have been through this.
BARTLET You haven't been through it with me.
LEO I'm trying to tell you if the time comes they're not going to give you a choice.
BARTLET You're telling me that the Secret Service, you're telling me my own bodyguards are gonna escort me to the bunker?
LEO Your feet may touch the ground a couple of times along the way but I doubt it.
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:(
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Is it okay for the President to have a blackberry if he promises not to break any laws or violate any human rights?
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11/26/08
I understand the security issues surrounding his having one, but it really makes no sense in the age of information, to cut him off. Why vote him in just to take away his tools and devices that helped make him our leader in the first place? How is the U.S. going to propel itself into the next century when we are already lagging behind if we can't even figure out a way to incorporate new (not so new anymore) communication methods and tech into our gov't?
I got wind of this slow to adopt gov't on CSPAN a few years ago when google, yahoo, and msn were being questioned on a panel that was set up like an interrogation hearing. blah blah blah series of tubes blah it is time for our gov't to wake up.
/rant
11/26/08
11/26/08
If they can figure out a way to remove the security risks due to tracking possibilities, let him keep the damn thing. And if they can't figure out how to do that, that does not speak very highly of our security forces.
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11/16/08
The fact that there's a gigantic black hole where George W Bush's administration's communications once presumably existed- dealing with 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Gitmo, torture, detainess- well, it's a stinking travesty that they get to say, Oops! Must have erased them. The dog ate my homework.
It makes Rosemary Woods' "oops" about the missing 17 notorious minutes on the Watergate tapes seem like child's play.
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