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What, No backup servers ? Please, who is running the White House IT department. Might be a goos way to loose some critical early emails. You know the ones they wrote before they realized that they were all being logged.

Get a grip Rick. All is getting adjusted...the long nightmare is over. Welcome to the dream.

Outsource the exchange server to Rackspace and this will solve everything.

Hopefully the Obama administration is actually technically sophisticated, and realizes full well what a weak link Microsoft anything is, and will set up a Linux and Mac shop.

I think the APR, taxes and insurance should be lowered for all home owners.

The Obama "pablum" is wearing off.

"Senator accuses Pres. Obama of 'environmental thuggery"

LOL!!! Watch out, he's a thug! LOL!! He's too thuggish to allow this...

You politicians are a bunch of morons and by the way, tell him he better make sure his Sooners better win a title, LOL!!

Good heavens – it's a technical issue folks – not espionage.

Sometimes these issues can take time to solve...

And Rick – give Mr. Gibbs a break. Are you telling me that previous press secretaries were calm, cool, and collected on their first days – I THINK NOT.

This is what they deserve for running that piece of crap called Exchange (not "Outlook server").

Instead of a proprietary and highly unreliable Microsoft product, they should be running a standards-compliant SMTP server. Many companies sell such a thing, or they could get an open source mail server FOR FREE!

Hey, new administration... stop wasting tax dollars and STOP PAYING FOR UNRELIABLE MICROSOFT PRODUCTS.

Uh-Oh, they're onto us, gotta hide, LOL!! I'm playing, i'm playing.

We are so fortunate to have a very smart staff in the White House. High Tech is a must. Everything will be fixed. I guarantee you this.

This is no more Obama's fault than it is Bush's fault. Neither of them work in the IT department of the white house.

From the High Tech of the Obama campaign into the High Tech of the White House under fromer President Bush is like walking off a cliff into darkness. Lots of upgrades will have to be done and quickly.

bush left a 'worm'.

tell buraco barmer to talk to nasa to help me fite our finachall digatall war there over 150 years a head in tecknollogy and as a demend mack shore he macks his bancks strong asap aron ozimek leder for ceven rudd

i dont understand how anyone can honestly beleive this is President Obama's fault

this is a tech failure, it happens everywhere!!!
the USA and the USSR almost nuked eachother to hell because of problems like this, but those problems have become increasingly less serious dur to advances in technology

it'll be a while untill internet problems can be completly solved.

im very glad though that the administration has other unoficial emails so there's an alternative

I wonder just how much more hidden Republican incompetence there is we don't know about.

At this point, Obama just being able to move into the Whitehouse without the roof leaking and whole electrical system blowing out will seem like a grand victory.

What a mess.

At least Bush and Cheney waited a few months..........................

How is this Obama's fault? My god some of you people are just being so stupid!

Maybe the Whitehouse should up grade their computer systems. I think that would be a good use of tax payer money.

It is an Exchange Server not a Outlook server

Gov't workers unable to fix a mail server issue - must be all the breaks and time off they get! LOL

When will they start posting photos and news releases to the official Whitehouse.gov Briefing Room website? As of yet there are no Pool Reports either?

Can't microsoft outlook do anything anymore? Sheesh... this is pitiful. Perhaps it is Cheney and Bush fixing the computers... they surely had plenty of time!

So the mail server "coincidentally" goes down right AFTER the new admin uploads to the new system? Hmmmm....I will reserve comment on this one.

Sounds to me like, the Republicans at their games!

Rick..........? what are you vieing for Limbaugh's job? Enough already with the partisan vitriol.........as a senior citizen Republican I'd rather go to the senior citizen center and play cards and listen to all the old folks farting than listen/read the partisan garbage that is tearing this country apart. Paris Hilton needs a new manager go work for her.

Maybe the White House should chuck that garbage Microsoft product and get something that works.

Gibbs is toast. Or should be.

How can staffers answer questions when they don't have any answers just like their new leader. Gibbs can't even answer a question. Clowns
Glad to see Obama is not giving any of the major networks the first interview. He went to his home network.

Too bad , too late America...........should have really thought about our presidential choices, Senator McCain and even Hillary Clinton would have been a much better choice. I hope we get our acts together in 2010 and 2012.

Rick, keep on believing whatever you want to believe. I bet you thought Bush Co. did well.

blame it on the Vista platform....

get a Mac for the White House

Get over it Rick. Your guy lost. It's time for unity behind our current administration. Bush's administration had no unity either and look where that got us. Partianship has to become a thing of the past. Either we all work together or our country will completely fail.

From Jeff in Illinois

"Maybe past VP Dick "Not part of the Executive Branch" Cheney's email deleting process wasn't quite finished."

Or maybe former VP Cheney's virus bug left as a parting gift finally kicked in. LOL!!!

Obama for 8 years!

The Outlook server? Come on CNN, do a little research. Microsoft Exchange much? Outlook = Client, Exchange = Server. Even "email server" would have made you look a little less ill-informed.

They use Outlook? Hasn't that been proven time and again to be unsecure!!! Yikes!

So does Rick!

The White House needs to be rewired for the 21st century!

RICK ,YOU ARE NOT VERY AMERICAN AND YOU ARE NOT A GOOD CITIZEN... 82% WISHES HIM WELL ,WHY CAN'T YOU AND RUSH

dependence on technology... does have its pitsfalls.

Image if this was something imporatant?

Dear Rick,

Obviously you haven't seen Bush press briefings yet.

Sincerely,
Not

Will you let it go, Mr Obama ?

Don't be a childish. You don't need BlackBerry to work.

RICK, i see that you can't get enough of President Obama. You follow him every day. So i know deep in my heart that before his first hundred day are up, you will also be an Obama lover. Bye Rick

The email server probably went down from no-use in the past. Did the Bush people even know how to use email?

I kind of agree with Jeff, and Rick just give people a chance, the press whats to know more than he knows. Plus Bush had how many press Secretary.

One week into the office, I think that what Obama is doing is a helevalot better than Bush had done, deregulating everything and trying to kill the American people.

Oh Rick by the way, do you enjoy our Government spy on you all the time.

To me it is an invasion of my privacy

It's time to send out for some string and empty soda cans!

Sounds like the White House is one step above the Flintstones in technology.

outlook server? say it ain't so. there are better/safer ways to do email.

Hey, Rick! Is it possible for you make a comment without some sort of asinine insult? Or are you just following the lead of one of your right-wing talking heads? I think Jeff in Illinois got it right! Cheney was always the Macchiavelli behind G.W. Bush.

Snide comment here.

Thanks CNN for letting me blow off steam from my pathetic life.

Rick,

After watching Bush stumble through 8 years of mumble jumble and FEW AND FAR IN BETWEEN press conferences, I am now convinced that 47% of Americans that turned out for stumbling Palin, also had no idea of what she was doing or McCain for that matter.

Can you imagine how McCain and Palin would have handled this economic crisis? Hell they didn't think anything was wrong. All McCain did was move from house to house and Palin bought new clothes. The bad economy apparently didn't affect them negatively.

Move to Canada and spare yourself from this ill-perceived nightmare!

President Obama...let your haters be your motivators!

The White House's email server is powered by Outlook? Next project for Obama is to replace that Outllok server with an open source equivalent. There are lots to choose from, and they are all better than Outlook.

Rick, can you do a better job. Please run for office if you can do a better job.
President Obama's administration has been in office one week, one week. All of the founding fathers, put together, could not undue the damage done by Dubya in one week.

Not hard to find out why it crashed either the computers are old {highly unlikely} or the sever was overloaded, maybe even a D.O.S {Denial Of Service} attack but that seems unlikely as well.

Rick, I think your meds are ready pal.

Rick, the "national nightmare" started when Bush stole the 2000 Election.

Oh Rick have you been living in a cave for the past 8 years? Or do you hate prosperity, freedom, honesty, and equality? If you think Obama is the beginning of a national nightmare and not the team in the HazMat suits called in to fumigate after the horror of Cheney/Bush than I suspect you are either a member of the Bush/Cheney axis of evil, unbelievably out of touch, or just a masochist.

Rick January 26th, 2009 5:01 pm ET

After watching Gibbs stumble through three press briefings now I'm convinced that the entire Obumbler administration has no idea what they're doing. The long national nightmare has just begun.
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This guy (and others of his ilk) can't win. Anyway you look at it, these ridiculous posters are the most hypocritical people I've ever seen:

Rick:
If you're trying to get us afraid, you're by definition a "terror"ist. Go on a j1had and leave the board alone. You're no better than the people your idol W. wanted to fight.

If you want Obama to fail in his efforts for this country, you want to this country to fall, hence you're by definition "unpatriotic," so leave and go live somewhere else or support the current admin. I can't speak for other people, but: despite hating Bush, I still wanted to see him make this country strong.

If you're just putting crap on the boards to spam everyone and try to sound superior, you're a little man with a little mind, an immature troll, so your mother must have either neglected you or raised you with no respect. Horrible woman.

Don't you people even care about your lives? If not, go back to watching "Fight Club" and pretending you're real men.

Maybe they should learn the morse code. Aba Dabba doo .

Charvez loves him too . Wright. Rather correct , still the News Media's Darling . Everything they put out is one sided . Wright.

Rick, shut up and get off the blogs. You are the only nightmare (along with the other Obama haters) living anymore. Jumping off of a bridge is an option that you have since you hate our new administration so much! Don't delay another minute, you must do it now!

outlook server... i blame microsoft

Funny, the tech savy Obama presidency is having difficulties that the stone-age Bush administration did not have?

No it must be the former president's emails which hadnt finished deleting just yet! Caused a system overload of unanswered emails.

Oh I forgot to mention to Rick in here about his posting Obumbler comment..Why don't you BITE the big one IDIOT?????

Well, we certainly can't blame Obama's guys. They run a modern campaign involving current technology, then Bush doesn't let him into the White house, and when he does, they find that not only are the computers there like the W White house- old and busted – but nobody can explain why the Bush folleys didn't use technology. I bet a few reports in .pdf format would have helped Bush clue into that "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" memo.

The Bush Administration: A unending curse on Washington.

This just goes to show you that Bush and Cheney still are ILEAGLY tapping into people lives....See how does it feel to have your invasion violated Mr. President? Hmmmm...... Sounds like Watergate all over again....

Rick, get a life, dumbo.

wow.. no BLACK berries,, wow

@Rick, if three press conference from a new press secretary is an indication of a nightmare, what do you call the last 8 yrs of the Bush administration?

RICK -

What the HELL are you talking about? Do you think that everything is good right NOW?? What country are you living in?

Repubs amaze me with their amnesia already......

Sounds to me like someone in the past administration put in a virus which took out the server. I guess removing the O's from keyboards didn't strike them as being enough of a joke...either that or Jeff is right.

As for the "long nightmare", people who think this way should just listen to Rush on the radio and not bother their little minds with news that might make them think.

I heard their toilet got clogged, too. Cover that, CNN!!

Blackberry... Grow up!

We are slaves to our machines. Shades of the Terminator!

It concerns me that in today's world, the white house press operation does not have a better Disaster Recovery plan. Are they hiring?

Sounds to me like someone in the past administration put in a virus which took out the server. Guess removing the O's from keyboards didn't strike them as being good enough a joke. Either that or Jeff is right.

As for the "long nightmare", people who think this way should just listen to Rush Limbarf on the radio and not bother their little minds with news that might make them think.

B-S Bush didnt know what he was doing either and we're already in a nightmare. getting in school is now much harder because of dumb, arogant, greedy, wannabe republicans made it. Conserve my B-Hind. you bigots are a prime example of how our education system is lacking (finish 3rd grade already),

you bigots will FAIL in a diverse Society because you refuse to accept the fact that the world doesn't consist of just one. it consists of many. the United States does not consist of one.

Rick- it's obvious you're a jeulous, incompetent fool

Rick @ 501: You funny – Obumbler – That's great
How about R-Ick – that's funny, too.
Or P"rick" – see it's easy.
or "rickless" – Want More?

RICK, got a solution, please let Obama know.

In view of the fact that the server was inherited from the Bush administration, the Obama people probably didn't know to feed the hamsters that turn the gears that make it run.

I'm so sick of the Republicans I don't know what to do. They did not win because most Americans favored Barack's ideas. So why are they still trying to shove their ideas down our throats? If we had wanted their ideas, we would have voted for McCain. We didn't, we sent him and Sarah Failin packing.

So what's up with all this talk about tax cuts and fiscal conservatism. They had their chance and they were not conservative and were not good stewards of our economy. I don't trust them.

The Dems shoudn't put pork in the bill and certainly not the Republicans. Allow Barack to get his package through without grubby, greedy hands all over it.

President Obama is in charge, sign his bill and move on.

Think you're cute, huh, Jeff? You're little messiah is going to cause this country great concern after he absolutely ruins all of us! He's picked a bunch of crooks – like the Chicago machinery he comes from. We're in serious trouble!

Seems like an Obama administration blunder is replacing thought for the day with "O'blunder of the Day".
This is going to be a great 4 years.....for the republicans!

God help our country. We need it now more than ever!

What is CNN's obsession with President Obama's BlackBerry? It is getting old...

how is this news?

Right Rick and Bush was an all star President!

Obama has done more in 6 days then Bush could ever imagine. Bush spent more time on vacation then any President. Oh right, he wasn't the real President. That job was really Cheney's.

At least Obama isn't waging war. Obama has the uneviable job of fixing all the sheeit that Bush screwed up.

Rick> Do you EVER say anything positive? Just wondering....

I read 'Outlook server' and that's all I needed to know

None of the rules apply to the b.l.k. bast.a.r.d. obama. None.

Rick, find a clue. The IT system at the White House that was used during the last administration was antiquated; when the Obama staff upgraded to the MACs those older servers probably couldn't handle the load and crashed.

That is what happens when "change" is not embraced; you are stuck with outdated things and it is harder to bring them up to current standards and capabilities.

Less than one week of mistakes (harmless) is better than 8 years of mistakes (deadly) after mistakes (costly). The right-wingers sure are judgemental, but what do you expect from religious fanatics.

I worked with an Indian that told me "do not fix all the problems - if we fix everything, we lose our jobs".

I guess the Indians must have maintained the email system at the WH.

Put an honest American in there to get it up and running.

Am sure Bush never used e-mail. This is all new to the white house staff.

Let's play the President Bashing Game. I think it goes like this: Obama's watch, Obama's fault! That's how everyone blamed Bush for everything for the last 8 years. Well Obama's turn now.

@rick

Obama has done more in his first week than Bush did his 2 terms. It's ok, you can say it. "Obama is doing a good job." Try it, it's ok to help those that need it and not those that don't. You know, like Bush helped those who didn't need it.

On No – it's a national emergency! How will Obama know where to go and what to do without his BlackBarry?

This Presidency is off to a flubbery start.

Maybe past VP Dick "Not part of the Executive Branch" Cheney's email deleting process wasn't quite finished.

After watching Gibbs stumble through three press briefings now I'm convinced that the entire Obumbler administration has no idea what they're doing. The long national nightmare has just begun.