I'm hiding my face because I'm a loser. Did I vote for Obama ? thats the question everyone is asking me.Yes I but now it's time for me to go.I love discosean21 this guy is crazy.Those are seven words President-elect Barack Obama is dreading but on transition matters and other items on his BlackBerry, bypassing, at least temporarily, the bureaucracy that is quickly encircling him.
A year ago, when many Democratic contributors and other observers were worried about his prospects against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, they reached out to him directly. Mr. Obama had changed his cellphone number, so e-mail remained the most reliable way of communicating directly with him.
His BlackBerry was constantly crackling with e-mails, said David Axelrod, the campaigns chief strategist. People were generous with their advice — much of it conflicting.
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.
But in the interceding eight years, as BlackBerrys have become ubiquitous — and often less intrusive than a telephone, the volume of e-mail has multiplied and the role of technologyng sent to staff members at 1 a.m. or as late as 3 a.m. if he was working on an important speech.
He received a scaled-down list of news clippings, with his advisers wanting to keep him from reading blogs and news updates all day long, yet aides said he still seemed to hear about network, staff members who spent countless hours with him say, is likely to be a challenge.
Given how important it is for him to get unfiltered information from as many sources as possible, I can imagine he will miss that freedom, said Linda Douglass, a senior adviser who traveled with the campaign.
Mr. Obama has, for at least brief moments, been forced offline. As he sat down with a small circle of advisers to prepare for debates with Senator John McCain, one rule was quickly established: No BlackBerrys. Mr. Axelrod ordered everyone to put their devices in the center of a table during work sessions. Mr. Obama, who was known to sneak a peek at his, was no exception.
In the closing stages of the campaign, as exhaustion set in and the workload increased, aides said Mr. Obama spent more time reading than responding to messages. As his team prepares a final judgment on whether he can keep using e-mail, perhaps even in a read-only fashion, several authorities in presidential communication said they believed it was highly unlikely that he would be able to do so.
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 presidents job is that others can use e-mail for him.
She added: Its a time burner. It might be easier for him to say, I cant be on e-mail.
Should Mr. Obama want to break ground and become the first president to fire off e-mail messages from the West Wing and wherever he travels, he could turn to Al Gore as a model. In the later years of his vice presidency, Democrats said, Mr. Gore used a government e-mail address and a campaign address in his race against Mr. Bush.
The president, though, faces far greater public scrutiny. And even if he does not wear a BlackBerry on his belt or carry a cellphone in his pocket, he almost certainly will not lack from a variety of new communication.
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But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,[b] not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.- 2 Peter 3:8,9
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