Riddle me this:
What would you do if you had to choose between your true love and your life's work?
What if you thought you could have it all, only to find out it might cost you your Precious?
That was the conundrum that faced incoming President-elect Obama. Elected to the highest office in the land, in an inspiring campaign run amid a swirling fugue of economic terror, he no doubt thought he had achieved the epitome of his life's work.
Then, he found out he'd have to lose the Blackberry.
(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama told CNN Friday he thinks he may be able to “hang onto” his BlackBerry after all.
In an interview with CNN’s John King, he talked about the privacy issues that threaten his ability to maintain normal communications – and his optimism that, unlike his predecessor, he’s going to be able to keep using e-mail after he enters the Oval Office.
Then there’s the BlackBerry.
“You like these,” said CNN’s John King. “I was just with you before this, and you had a couple of them. And there are a lot of people who say, because this will end up in the presidential library, because you don't have privacy any more. Your life's about to change Tuesday noon. You have to give this up.”
“Yes,” conceded Obama.
“You going to do it?” asked King.
“I think we're going to be able to beat this back,” Obama responded. “….I think we're going to be able to hang onto one of these. Now, my working assumption, and this is not new, is that everything I write on e-mail could end up being on CNN. So I make sure that — to think before I press ‘send.’”
They told him he couldnt' have a BB after he was inaugurated, told him it wasn't "secure". That he'd have to give it up.
Well guess what?
Turns out dude doesn't want to give up his BB and he's gonna be the leader of the world, so take that, anti-BB bigots!
Hey Barry, Fight the Power, man, Fight the Power.
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