White House in the dark ages

Obama staff have arrived at the White House to a mess of out-dated technology, reports the Washington Post.

If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.

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.”

Read the full story here.

One Comment

  1. Garbo
    Posted Friday, 23 January 2009 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    Wait until the Obama Kool Aid drinkers realize the band wagon they’ve hitched a ride on is a garbage truck.