He used it to great effect, sweeping the Vietnam vet and his chummy sidekick in one of the most watched, discussed and hope-laden elections in recent history. But Barack Obama's innovative use of modern comms technology may have to stop come late January.
The New York Times is reporting that the President-elect will likely have to surrender his Blackberry, and any other written forms of communication (so Twitter etc. may also be out) under the Presidential Records Act. As Jeff Zeleny writes in the times:
"For all the perquisites and power afforded the president, the chief executive of the United States is essentially deprived by law and by culture of some of the very tools that other chief executives depend on to survive and to thrive."
It's not a complete technical meltdown, though:
"Mr. Obama, however, seems intent on pulling the office at least partly into the 21st century on that score; aides said he hopes to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval Office, making him the first American president to do so."
It would be great if he kept the Twitter account open. After all, "deciding when we should pull lout of Iraq" would be fantastic to see, but it looks like it won't happen (hopefully the Iraq pullout still will!).
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