Blair Congratulates Obama On BlackBerry
The White House pool report from Thursday morning's National Prayer Breakfast -- a tradition begun in 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- includes the latest BlackBerry banter.
Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, gave what amounted to the keynote, mentioning President Barack Obama's success in obtaining a super-secure BlackBerry:
"You don't need cheerleaders but partners, not spectators but supporters. The truest friends are those still around when the going gets toughest," Blair told Obama. "Great news about the BlackBerry," Blair said, launching into a story about his first mobile phone, which he got the day after he left 10 Downing Street. He said he sent a text message without realizing the recipient, a friend of his, wouldn't know who it was from. "Back came the reply: Sorry, who are you?" As if to say, how soon a leader is forgotten.
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