President-Elect Obama Has to Bid Adieu to a Dear Friend — His BlackBerry
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We feel for the President-Elect, as we assume most of you will.
According to new reports, the soon-to-be President will likely surrender his beloved BlackBerry before stepping into the White House.
In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he apparently faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence (ALL of it! Profesh AND personal!!) in the official record and ultimately up for public review.
Barack has proven to be like many of us, BlackBerry (literally) attached to his side to keep constant tabs of what's going on at work and with family/friends.
Can you imagine life without your BlackBerry, iPhone, or SideKick?
Unimagineable, huh?!
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Posted: November 16, 2008 at 4:00 pm
or just a normal cell phone.. canada didnt eve get side kicks! and the iphone is s expensive, and a waste unless you are business oriented like him… and black berries have extra costs.. college students cant afford that shit perez. shit stop rubbing it in! im in debt lol
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soo….. why dont we know what bush is up to??? id loove to know..im sure im not the only one
hope he doesn't go batshit
OH MY GOD. NO WAY. THIS IS SO HORRIBLE. ITS SUCH AMAZING NEWS. THANKS DOUBLE STUFF FOR BRINGIN THIS TO OUR ATTENTION.
I feel for him but I NEVER use a cell phone, iphone, blackberry or whatever and get around my day just fine thank you!
Is this really worth reporting about?
Oh, yes I can. Some people don't want anything. I could be at dinner, a movie, whatever! Even making out! That damn Blackberry is not all is it
crack up to be. Now when I need it. It's fine. But, when i am off the clock
don't bother me.
Of course I can!!! I can go back to using a regular lanline….send written letters and etc…its not the end of the world! But then I love all of my little tech gadgets so I might go thru withdrawal first!
Re: Listen To Mayday Parade – Canada does have sidekicks you just have to know where to find them.
Really, Perez, you need to be showing Leona singing 'Run' from last night's X Factor! It is SO Amazing!!!!!!!!!
Re: SinfullyTattooedBitch – none of the companies around here got them! i know one person with one, but he bought it in the states and then changed the sin card but you have to be with rogers to be able to do that… if you live in the east coast, they have at&t who have them.. but thats only because they are close enough to the states, at&t is american
so why exactly can't he have a blackberry?
oops my bad i read it lol
Read it on Drudge Report last night. You are really starting to suck.
stole this from yahoo
It's not just the blackberry, Perez. It's what that represents. Barack has to give up his privacy…ALL of it. All the things he took for granted with that blackberry, like being able to talk to his wife or his friends, being able to lighten up the stress with joking and talking like everyone else, he can't do it anymore. He is totally public property. Totally. So are his wife, kids, in-laws and his sisters and half brothers. Anyone remotely connected to him, everything. Four to eight years of living with Secret Service agents around. Never being able to say, "Hey. Let's go out to dinner." Everything will be a huge production. Simlpe things like taking the ,kids to school, etc. And for our sake, that's how it needs to be. The future of our country is riding on what this guys is going to do to fix everything. I feel for him. I feel like we all need to be asking him, "How can I help?"
It would suck to be president.
I'd rather have my iPhone, my privacy, and my peace of mind, thank you very much.
PRESIDENT OBAMA!
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Nice!
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Must b a real slow frickin day for you…
"Can you imagine life without your BlackBerry, iPhone, or SideKick?
Unimagineable, huh?!"
It's not "unimaginable" to me because I use a funny lil thing called a PHONE; remember that? It was invented in the 1870's, and still works just as good today as it did then.
If I'm not at home, then I'm just not reachable until I get home. Before pagers and cell phones that's what people used, and the world didn't come crashing to an end when a person couldn't reach you.
Only dependent and needy people are hooked on those devices. To that I say seek counseling and learn to love yourself without having to feel "important" only because your "friends" text you every 5 minutes.
wow…it's amazing that I've managed to live 24 years without one. How have I managed?
Dependancy SUCKS! Especially on an inatimate object.
Re: girl interrupted – lol i always comment before reading too!
Re: sweetpiece – evenin' sweets!
I could never say goodbye to mine. The Hottentot language is rather complicated to speak, especially, well….if your a senior female member of the tribe.
IM REALLY TIRED OF HIS FCKIN FACE.I VOTED FOR HIM BUT IM REALLY TIRED TO SEE HIS FACE EVERYWHERE.its like Saudi Arabia when u see a picture of a dictator everywhere.its time to Obama get lost until next year.
well considering i've never owned either of those, i check my email on the computer… DUH.
IF i had alot of money id order myself on because they dont sell these things in estonia :S
oh heaven forbid he not have his blackberry! whatever will he do?!
…maybe run the country?
i love my blackberry and i feel very sorry for him
Re: mamajud – Hi Mamajud! I like what Moonbeams said about "How can I help?'
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Tough job ahead for this guy.
I doubt boooooobama will give it up….
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He's the guy that says one thing to your face, then does another behind it
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More importantly HE WILL NOT PLAY BY THE RULES.
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He is the messiah, the chosen one, saviour to all…..FOR NOW
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My blackberry is starting to piss me off. The damn thing goes off at random inconvenient times b/c of an email or txt. Sometimes computer send emails come in at like 4am. My blackberry can be taken away… I'll manage just fine! It's not always good to be reachable 24/7. I don;t like it I like being able to hide and not deal with ppl lol!
i can imagine my life without mobile device
i prefer my PC and use my mobile phone when i'm bored…
Re: sheba08 – Number 8, you mentioned Crack. Was that a freudian slip,…or did you intentionally mean to refer to Crack…???
I love his face and so glad he our president elect. I can't imagine having all of my phone calls, texts and e-mail open to the public…I would be in a lot of trouble.
i can imagine my life without any of those things…and i feel very sorry for people who feel that a pieces of technology could serve as an extension of their mind and body.
Re: moonbeams – Boy, oh boy, number 17. You make being the Messiah sound like a real drag.
So wait, are you implying that it's impossible to live with out a Sidekick, Blackberry, iPhone, etc?!?!? What kind of shallow douche-bags do you take your readers for Perez? Really?!?!
nice of him to play by the rules (no surprise there), unlike our current administration, who routinely erase emails and shred documents and our tax dollars pay for it. Dont' forget, haters: President Obama will be EVERYONE'S prez. Bushies are for big oil , rich fuckers, and their raisiny corrupt cronies ONLY, so McCain would've been too. He only wanted to win, not govern and make changes. his economic bailout plan: Marry a beer heiress.
It's liberating to NOT have one. It's too bad so many people need one to feel important.
Oh, the joys of public life. He knew this was coming so it should not be too hard.
Nuban number 35~ You may need to have your eyes checked. I said if I am off the CLOCK! Which means WORK DO NOT CALL ME! No where is CRACK mentioned. SORRY! Have a good evening!
Oh, and if anyone got near me with CRACK! I promise I would get a baseball bat and beat the daylights out of them. Not for me. Good Night!
I'm a dinosaur; don't have any of the 3.
I read this on Yahoo 10,000 minutes ago.
Yes, the most difficult decision BO has made - giving up his Blackberry. Oh Boy, He must have been up for days with that. Great, we get to see his correspondence with all that organized crime that helped get him elected - LOVES it. Coming from some guy who hasn't lead a troop of boyscouts out of a campground - wait til Russia, Iran, or South Korea puts a foot up his ass - or better yet, when we are attacked on our own soil - all I can say is: WE TOLD YOU SO you dumb fucks - Mr. No Balls in the whitehouse, YEPPER
his new staff will be his BlackBerry
Re: party – Now that is funny. Coming from a democrat who doesn't realize that it was the CLINTON appointees in place who tanked Fannie Mae * Freeddie Mac - are your fucking serious? YOUR man bought the white house for the price tag of 660 million dollars! The arrogant fuck pre-empted the world series - and by the way - looked totally OUT Of his depth at his first press conference - he may have won the election - but he won't live up to a goddamn thing - just watch
IS HE THE PRESIDENT OR NOT GIVE THIS MAN HIS FUCKEN PHONE….IF BUSH CAN KILL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE BARACK CAN HAVE HIS PHONE
Re: moonbeams – Actually, after 4-8 years…when he's done and no longer president…HE WILL STILL have secret service. including his wife and ESPECIALLY his children. Chelsea still has a dude following her. trust me. theyre set for life with protection. not just for his run..and that sucks…cause his girls are young and WONT HAVE A LIFE!!!
Obama shouldn't worry about a stupid blackberry and concentrate on quitting those cancer sticks he chain smokes. Self-destructive twat.
awwwwwwwwwww poor baby! how will Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, and Louis Farakahn get a hold of him now?!
Re: ****MRS.JOSH*HOLLOWAY @>—–^—– – you must be slow dude. People volunteer to fight in our military and thanks to our great troops and a SURGE theres hardly any violence in Iraq now. Thanks to Bush we have a democracy in Iraq and we will leave in 2011. In fact more people have been murdered in Chicago, NY, and LA in the last 5 years than troops killed in Iraq BY FAR! and dont give me that BS that our troops rape and kill civilians, that has all been proven false althoug Obama keeps spewing that lie!
yeah, but don't you think he'll have no problems getting up-to-date info about his family and the world…ya know, with the hundreds of secret service officers with intercoms and walkie talkies?? oh and the central intelligence agency and national security council! plus he'll have about 5 secretaries so they can answer his phone calls
haha, he'll be just fine
and whereas
The Senator from Arizona could not even Google his own website
let us rejoice our President Obama
will have a kick ass laptop and
be able to use it blindfolded
I'm glad he won. We all have sacrifices to make.
do you know what literally means? clearly not, as not only did you put them in parenthesis, but you're implying that he has a Blackberry somehow surgically attached to his side. moron.
Re: sheba08 –
you did say crack. Go read your own post. You should have said "not all it's cracked up to be" but you said "not all it crack up to be" maybe that's how you talk or maybe it was a typo.
Re: jaysun82 – hilarious.
since I have none of the items you listed, sure can live without and save myself a boat load of cash. I am cutting my sat dish, landline phone and changing how I access internet to save some serious cash as I don't want to have my kids take care of me now that hub has retired. we live below our means so we can continue to donate our cash to those who deserve it. we don't need stuff to live, we want stuff to show off. to each his own I guess. But I don't need it.
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Re: Lola La Pistola –
Re: sweetpiece –
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AIR KISSES DARLINGS!!!
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OBAMA IS NOT THE PRESIDENT ELECT YET!, HE HAS STILL NOT SHOWN HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE ,THAT SHOWS HE WAS BORN IN THE US, HIS GRANDMOTHER RELEASED A STATEMENT THAT BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA WAS BORN IN KENYA, NOT AMERICA. WHICH WOULD NOT ALLOW HIM TO BE PRESIDENT!!
PLEASE BE AWARE OF THIS , HE IS NOT OUR PRESIDENT AND MOST LIKELY WILL NEVER BE! IF HIS GRANDMOTHER IS CORRECT! THANK GOD!
Re: Sperm-Dumpster – 63 You are extremely ill informed. The birth certificate has been authenticated. Factcheck.org dildobrain.
Hey LG!
Kisses right back at you!
How are you?
Re: Leona$ Gho$t – 62 I just finished watching the classic movie "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". So ahead of it's time! The characters dreamed of their children becoming president!
He did!
What a great film!
Folks, you all are pretty damn …. SPOILED!
I live without / don't own a computer, a DVD player, A VHS player, A DVR device, a TV less than 20 years old.
I don't own a cell phone or portable mobile device either!
I don't own a Wii or any of that stuff, either.
Oh, and need I add that I don't own a TiVo?
Yet, I do just fine and don't want to kill myself, amazingly enough.
Jeez-Louise, get over this technological dependency, will you? I great up without cell phones and we all did A-OK, thanks.
I do something called reading and interacting with real people, much of the day.
Obama Sucks big black……:o)
Right. Poor Barack Obama has to live an UNIMAGINABLE life without his blackberry, while thousands of people will be out of their homes this CHRISTMAS-not holiday- due to foreclosure. Wake up Perez.
Re: Sperm-Dumpster – Don't you google shit before typing it? He's already released his legit certificate of live birth, dumbfuck. And his grandma's dead.
He's giving that stuff up along with privacy, being under a microscope, inheriting a huge mess left behind by the previous administration, two wars, an economy going down the tubes….why would anyone want this job anyway? I think he should be credited hugely for having all this dumped on him and be willing to take it on.
Re: Sperm-Dumpster –
It has been verified you dumb ass loser.
He smokesssss.
Ok, to the poster that pointed it out to me. I did say the Blackberry was not all that it is CRACKED up to be. Nevermind! it's not important. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I type very fast! In other words it's not worth a shiz unless i am using it at the moment! Thank you! Yeah, typo and mix of words.
Have a good day!
Leona's Ghost! Hi sweetie! xoxo!
I can't imagine life without my phone, exactly why I'd never run for president.
I gave mine up years ago, switched careers (from being a personal assistant in LA to and executive assistant in SF), slowed down and gave myself the time I save with technology rather than giving it to my employer. I used to carry 2 blackberries becasue my celebrity boss would not dial his calls from his blackberry — I had to dial and patch him through — DIVA!
Never owned one. So yes, I can imagine life without it. Boo hooo, B.O.
i don't use any of those… just a regular ole' cell phone and a computer (i don't even have Internet at home!)… and still, i'm one buzy lady!!:)
I have an ordinary cell phone, but still can't imagine my life without it…
wow, that sucks for Barack. my blackberry curve was accidently broken in a long drop in a cement stairwell and the only store that sells blackberry in town was out of stock of that particular model (the wifi kind). it was the longest week of my life before a new blackberry was in my hands.