Presidential Disconnect

Tonight I read an interesting article the New York Times published on the 15th. It was about President elect Obama having to give up use of his blackberry. Which is viewed as a prized possession for him, and I have no doubt that is, in fact, true reliable information. I realized tonight I have never really thought about the presidential duties from that aspect... Having to give up your simplest personal freedoms and choices to protect the security on one's home country. It wasn't to hard at all to understand. Having freely given up a great deal of my rights to serve in the Marine Corps. It is interesting though, how most of the world might not see minor things like this that make a great impact on those affected. The article mentions how his emails would be printed out and read without using a computer himself to check his own email.

The article also points out current President Bush's response to his semi-forced abandonment of personal email, requesting to cease all personal correspondence via email.

Source: NYTimes