I always think some of the funniest stuff to come out around election time are the “Do you really want to vote for someone crazy enough to want the job?” jokes.
Especially this year, I’m just grateful that anyone is willing to take on the job (and the blame) of leading us through recession, war, pestilence, and frogs.
And whatever else President-elect Obama is able to accomplish, the absolute highest hope I have for his presidency is that, God willing and all the stars aligning, my friends, The Express will be the last movie EVER MADE to feature a newly-integrated sports team triumphing over bigotry, failed quizzes, athlete’s crotch, and small-town blonde girls in leftover poodle skirts.
But I wonder if our President-elect might not be rethinking his ambitions. Apparently, the president is not allowed to email or text or instant message. Obama is hoping to have a laptop in the Oval Office, and if he succeeds, he would be the first American president to ever have a laptop on his desk.
I have a laptop on my desk IN MY KITCHEN.
Who knew that being a stay-at-home mom had advantages over being president of the United States?
What do you think? Would it be worth technological annihilation to preside over 300 million back-seat strategists?
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Two words:
No.
Way.
Technological annihilation is not worth it. I want my laptop (got my first one for valentine’s day this year, LOVE IT!), I want my IM, I want my email, my blogs, and my instant internet connection so I can tune out my darling little children while I watch new episodes of tv dramas.
Maybe they figure that any president with a laptop would be like us – entering numerous blog giveaways, playing solitaire or now watching True Blood online since they can’t get HBO. Just speculation.
So to answer your question, no. A day without my laptop is like a day without coffee – horrible and too scary to imagine.
How weird is that? The president can’t have email etc? That is a bizzare notion. But I guess wehn you hitnk about it, why would he need the burden? It’s like people used to think you were important if you had a pager. I always said that it was the most important person who did not have a pager, because they were the ones doing the paging.
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I probably wouldn´t give it up, but then I don´t have to, since I´m not even an american citizen and not living in the US, so I can´t even become President….
Nope, couldn’t do it.
I guess Obama will figure a way around it/create some new laws or something. Our Prime Minister(or perhaps truly, someone in his office?) is on Twitter and Facebook and MySpace, so I guess I don’t see what the big deal is. Surely some CTO-type could come up with workarounds for the hacking/fraud concerns, and then Obama would just need to have free time for email/blackberry/web surfing.
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Something tells me that our Pres. Elect doesn’t care too much about the rules/norms — what ever you want to call it. It is definately not a job I would want and couldn’t do. So I guess kudos go to him for trying. I just hope the worst thing he does is put a laptop on that desk.
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The reason so far the presidents have not had them is because they are subpoena-able(i know i made up the word…cant think of the right way to put it). Also they are hackable…plus for history and archive sake papers etc need to be in hard copy
but to answer the q…
there is no way i would give up my gadgets even for a million $ a year and a way to spend one night in the lincoln bedroom….and months exploring a home where JFK had lived….hmmm…maybe i could do it for a week?
steff
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