President Obama and his team of hotshots are so technologically advanced they actually transported themselves back to 1982:

“Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts … One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software. Laptops were scarce, assigned to only a few people in the West Wing. The team was left struggling to put closed captions on online videos.”

“It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

We get the whole security issue, but to have the White House in this state in 2009 is embarrassing.

Source: Washington Post

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