Obama Forced to Give Up BlackBerry and IM Capabilities

Now that President-elect Barack Obama is moving on up to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., it looks like he'll also have to stop using his beloved BlackBerry and scrap his email account. According to the New York Times, there are issues with email security, so he "faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas." While he would like to still like to send world leaders and colleagues important missives, documents, and cool DListed links, "[a] decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful." Alas. In related news, Obama's texts and IM messages, according to associates, read "generally crisp, properly spelled and free of symbols or emoticons." Aw. :)

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Good move. Every message sent thru a Blackberry passes thru a foreign nation (Canada) and a foreign corporation (RIM). We should not allow our government to be so careless with their communications. Now, lets get him an iPhone!!!

All the more to insulate him from the world he knew.

"Every message sent thru a Blackberry passes thru a foreign nation (Canada) and a foreign corporation (RIM)."

False, but we shouldn't allow lack of knowledge to stop people from commenting, should we now?

"Now, lets get him an iPhone!!!"

So he can play space invaders?

He's going to miss participating in Michael K's CAPTION THIS or voting on Hot Slut of the Day.

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