A spokesman for President Barack Obama used a comparison of video game consoles to describe what the new administration found upon moving into the White House on Inauguration Day.
Staffer Bill Burton told the
Washington Post:
It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari.
We assume he means an Xbox 360...
In any event, Burton was referring to the sorry state of technology that the Obama crowd inherited from the departed Bushies. More from the
WaPo:
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.
What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.
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Obama Staffer Invokes Atari to Describe Tech-Challenged White House
