Obama's BlackBerry

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By Kasper Hauser

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When Obama stated that if elected, he would keep his Blackberry, debate echoed through Washington and among the ranks of the Secret Service. What would it be like to have a president who could Twitter, send text messages, and navigate the web with ease? What would it be like to receive a text message from inside the Oval Office and, most importantly, what would it say?

Now, for the first time, We The People are privy to our new leader’s epistolary back-and-forths on his wily hand-held device. We’re about to discover that his emails (and the replies, from his wife and daughters, Biden, Palen, Rush, Hannity, the new first puppy, and even Bush) are so tuned in to the language of electronic correspondence they come hilariously close to the brink of legibility.

This giftable, imagined glimpse into Obama’s beloved Blackberry traverses the mundane and momentous contours of the Commander in Chief’s life, from security briefings to spam, basketball practice to domestic bliss, and the panic of oops-I-hit-reply-all, to, of course, the trauma of dealing with the First Mother In Law.

To wit:

BidenMyTime: Hey U, whatcha doin? BARACKO: M rly busy BidenMyTime: Right 🙁 Can I lv at 4:45?

Genre:

  • Praise for SKYMAUL:
    "Fiendishly funny."--San Francisco Chronicle
    "The funniest thing you read this year."--NPR's Markeplace
    "The perfect send-up."--Salon.com
    "A hilarious and wildly inventive spoof."--Time Out NY
    A "smart, warped spoof."--Austin Chronicle
    "The D.U.I mask really works!"--David Foster Wallace
    "You will laugh yourself sad."--Patton Oswalt
    "Madly funny, full of wild invention."--George Saunders

On Sale
Jun 8, 2009
Page Count
144 pages
ISBN-13
9780316074353

Kasper Hauser

About the Author

Kasper Hauser is a San Francisco-based comedy group. They are the authors of Weddings of the Times, a parody of the New York Times wedding pages, and SkyMaul, which the San Francisco Chronicle called “wicked funny,” and Salon.com called “the perfect sendup.”

The Kasper Hauser Comedy Podcast has been called “brilliant” by New York magazine and “wonderfully realized” by the Times of London. The group’s members have written for HBO and appeared on “Comedy Central” and “This American Life.” (www.kasperhauser.com)

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