The president famous for his BlackBerry adoration is apparently not impressed with the Oval Office’s landlines. In an unscripted moment caught on tape by CBS, President Barack Obama last week asked of his White House: where are the “cool phones”?
“You know the Oval Office always thought I was going to have like real cool phones and stuff,” Obama said at a fundraiser in Chicago last week. “You know, we can’t get our phones to work! I’m like ‘come on guys, I’m the President of the United States.’ Where’s the fancy buttons and stuff, and the big screen comes up? It doesn’t happen.”
As the AP reports, Obama used the White House as an example of “bottlenecks in technological innovation.” He reportedly called the federal government’s technology 30 years behind the curve.
On a more serious note, the hot mic also picked up Obama’s candid remarks on budget negotiations with Republicans.
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