Comments on: Obama Banned From Technology?

By: sloanchouest

sloanchouest — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:59:45 +0000

I can understand the issue of the Presidential Records Act but let’s think about this for a minute. How many times in our history have all Presidential records been recorded and mysteriously lost or lacked relevance so they were discarded?
More power to Obama for being tech savvy and able to connect on a level playing field with the majority of his supporters.
“Oh my gosh! A laptop on the Oval Office Desk! How dare he!”— I mean really. It’s just a laptop. Pretty soon we are going to hear about some signed agreement between Apple and the White House. That would be exciting.

By: brownashleyk

brownashleyk — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:37:20 +0000

Mandi-I completely agree. I find it inspiring to have a President who actually understands how to use technology and the powers associated with it. I do, however, understand the implications involved with such an important political office and feel that it is right to assume there will need to be guidelines. That being said, this is an exciting presidency because it will hopefully raise these issues and change legislation to come.

By: Mandi Molinar

Mandi Molinar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:23:32 +0000

I think this is ridiculous. Why should Obama get banned from using his email? He obviously shows great concern to always be hands on with everything even if that mean emailing at 3am. Technology has done a great wonders for him and its an everyday use for everyone so I think he should continue to use it.