Why Pres.Obama Doesn't Use a Cordless Phone (and neither should you)

[JaneyVee]

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• Security. The president needs to make sure some bozo out on the lawn can't eavesdrop on his phone call with a baby monitor.

• Interference. "Hold on Putin, the kids are microwaving some popcorn."

• Sound quality. Being able to actually hear inflections in people's voices is kinda important when dealing with international crises.

• You have to charge it. Aides can probably do it for him, but it's a pain.

• It's easy to lose

• It requires power. If the White House ever completely loses power (including whatever generators they might have), he wouldn't be able to make any calls from his desk.

• Corded phones have more features. The most gadgety reason is that his current phone, which is probably by Cisco or Avaya or someone similar, has tons and tons of features. There's probably even an Optimus Prime voice changer on that thing. No way will a cordless phone be able to match that.


STE phone set. Slot in front for Crypto PC Card.

Secure Terminal Equipment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Terminal_Equipment

Link: http://gizmodo.com/5136676/why-obama-doesnt-use-a-cordless-phone-and-neither-should-you

[MADem]

1. I used to have a phone like that--it didn't have a card slot, though, it had a weird key

that I guarded with my life (wore the damn thing around my neck).

[msanthrope]

2. Neither did Admiral Adama. He used a handset with a cord. It's the only way to combat the Cylons.

What is Obama hiding????

[GoCubsGo]

3. That's why I still have my old corded Trimline.

It took an ice storm for me to realize that I should hang onto it. The power was out for days, so the cordless phones didn't work. I could still talk to people with the corded phone--not that many of the people around here were capable of that. A lot of them relied on cordless and cell phones.

[Marie Marie]

4. They will get my corded landlines when they pry them from my cold dead hands!

[hollysmom]

5. my life is far to boring to waste time worrying about people overhearing what I say - but then

I never give personal information off my cordless phones, but only on on one last plug in land line.