Obama vows to keep BlackBerry

Barack Obama vowed a fight to hang on to his BlackBerry.

Washington, Jan 09: President-elect Barack Obama vowed a fight to the finish on Wednesday - not over his economic plan, but to hang on to his BlackBerry.

"They`re going to pry it out of my hands," he said about his BlackBerry. The 47-year-old Obama, cosseted in a security cocoon is trying to avoid the fate of President George Bush, who gave up email in 2001 as any such electronic communications would have to be preserved for posterity as presidential documents. Obama said keeping in touch by email was a way of escaping the trappings of power. "I`ve got to look for every opportunity to do that -- ways that aren`t scripted, ways that aren`t controlled, ways where, you know, people aren`t just complimenting you or standing up when you enter into a room, ways of staying grounded," he said. Bureau Report