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<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe Blackberry and Barack Obama<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A Perfect Metaphor and a Fitting little Epithet!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s Time for America to Move On<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n by Scott Rohter, November 2012<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When he became America\u2019s 44th<\/span> President the little Blackberry was the very latest innovation in communication technology, and Barack Obama was the very first U.S. President in history to ever own one. The mainstream media made much of it at the time\u2026 It also ruffled a few feathers at the White House and around the country in those early days of his Presidency, and it caused quite a lot of concern in certain legal circles too as our Nation\u2019s first Black President began to make himself feel right at home in the White House.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The primary concern resulted from the implications that texting on his Blackberry posed regarding\u00a0the President’s\u00a0own privacy, and questions that arose regarding the public\u2019s right to know the full\u00a0extent of his conversations. But the prevailing legal opinion was that President Obama could continue to use his Blackberry, and that his private conversations with his family and his close friends would be kept confidential.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Many people had very high expectations for the little Blackberry and for its Canadian manufacturer Research in Motion<\/em>, just as many Americans held out very high hopes for our Nation\u2019s first Black President. The newest President and the newest innovation in technology were both on similar trajectories. They were both riding a wave of popularity that made them the two most popular topics of conversation across the country. But just like America\u2019s interest in the little Blackberry soon waned, and it lost much of its popularity, so too America\u2019s first Black President has lost much of his popularity, and his personal appeal has waned too. Four years is a long time!\u2026 both in politics and in marketing. The hope and change that Barack Obama promised turned out to be a lot of smoke and mirrors instead! America seems to have lost its fascination with both, the Blackberry and Barack Obama.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The little Blackberry which rode to fame partly on the high level endorsement and the notoriety afforded to it by our country\u2019s most famous citizen, who was also its\u00a0biggest proponent and its most prominent user, has since been surpassed and replaced by newer and even better technology\u2026 by I phones and androids with touch screens which can perform a wider variety of functions and so renders the older Blackberry technology almost obsolete. The Blackberry is increasingly becoming irrelevant today just as its most prominent spokesman is plummeting in the polls in the remaining few weeks before this\u00a0crucial election.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I think the Blackberry is quickly becoming a metaphor that\u00a0will soon be used to describe early obsolescence just like cassettes and 8 track tapes did\u00a0for a while after\u00a0their\u00a0brief heyday\u2026 or as the President recently said\u2026 bayonets,<\/em> for that matter! The Blackberry\u2019s time has come and gone. The time for bayonets has come and gone. And now the time for Barack Obama as our Nation\u2019s\u00a044th President\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0has come\u00a0and gone too! His special little place in the public spotlight is quickly coming to an end.\u00a0 <\/span>As such I think\u00a0the Blackberry is the perfect metaphor and a fitting little epithet for Barack Obama. The two of them have always been on similar trajectories, and they will forever be conjoined at the hip\u00a0of time, the Blackberry and our first Black President, Barack Obama. 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