WIll President Obama have to give up using his Blackberry once he takes office?

Essentially, the President will not be a private person for four to eights years, while in office. He has sold his soul (above the belt, according to Bill Clinton) to the people of the United States. On exiting, you get your Blackberry back to help assist you in rounding up important documents to put into your Presidential Library.

Why would anyone want this job? We can all be thankful and say an extra prayer at night that there are still a few people out there crazy enough to want to be President. The candidates are willing to get down on their knees and beg the people of the US for two years before they even get the job. They lose most of their personal identity -- which has now become public record -- and they become public fodder for the media and political cartoons. Their noses and ears are distorted and we remind them of every tiny mistake they make in public. They will be lucky not to leave office in disgrace or in a coffin. And we blast them with "Hail to the Chief" every time we see them, just to remind them that we're STILL WATCHINING, and don't pull any smart stuff...

Ha ha, so true. Still when you think of it from the other perspective Obama has already sold his soul (hes a lawyer isnt he?) so begging for this exhaulted position didnt really cost him that much.

George W. Bush had to give up his private email address, also.

I've never thought of the Presidency as the ultimate legal-beagle position, but you have a point...

right of access or not, he can still use the blackberry...//// oh wait...is it this particular blackberry? I mean Obama can have a blackberry as a president......so which is it?

I think what this is about is the fact that they cant regulate what obama uses his blackberry for, so they wont let him have it in the likley event that he lies to america and uses his own email off his blackberry.

No, it is because blackberries and such can be hacked. It's a national security issue.

Ah. In that case is there a special phone that they want him to use?

Well, not to sound stupid or anything but there are security measures that can be taken to insure non hackers. Cause if the issue is hacking well the the President should not use a computer since it may be hacked.
There is phenomenal encryption out there. Ad I would assume our government is smart enough to know not to put classified documents in emails, or on blackberry's etc etc.

I saw a blackberry storm commerical the other day and it mentioned something about phenomenal new security. I wonder what kind of blackberry hes using.

the chinese "allegedly" have been hacking into the USA govt puters. no puter is hacker safe.

The question was intended to cover whether Barack Obama continues to use any Blackberry (not necessarily the one he has now) - partially or fully - once he is President.

If you read the articles up in the top right corner, you won't have to speculate.

I hear that not only does Barack need to give up his Blackberry, he needs to remove all references of himself from the internet: http://is.gd/7RCJ

@zenboy- i think you missed the upper right hand corner of the page you sent: "…a social-media satire site..." Like the Onion or Stephen Colbert's victory of the Nov. 4 election in Marvel Comics, or Gracie Allen's campaign in 1938, that story is a satire or parody. Obama is not removing all references to himself from the Internet. Nice try, tho...

I noticed the same thing! I thought that sounded off. After all george bush has a myspace of his own.

Obama is in "negotiations" to keep his blackberry: http://gawker.com/5099072/obama-clinging-to-forbidden-blackberry