President-Elect Barack Obama has been constantly seen with his Blackberry over the last few years but that soon will be a thing of the past.
Upon the arrival of the BlackBerry Storm and the
Blackberry Bold, President-Elect Obama will have to relinquish the phone along with his e-mail privledges due to security concerns. 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. Also, the Oval Office does not have a computer in it.







<-President push on the White House landline.

Mr. Obama is the second president to grapple with the idea of this self-imposed isolation. Three days before his first inauguration, George W. Bush sent a message to 42 friends and relatives that explained his predicament.

“Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace,” Mr. Bush wrote from his old address, G94B@aol.com. “This saddens me. I have enjoyed conversing with each of you.”

--NY Times

President Bush has gone the last 8 YEARS without the use of e-mail. It's been reported that he is looking forward to sending them again.

Could you even go 1 year only being able to read e-mail? What about not even being able to read or send?