Whenever I had the opportunity to meet with President Bush, he was always very present to those in the room. He would respond to you and your questions. He would notice things — enough to make a pointed joke or even scold (which I saw at least once). It’s notable and even different from a lot of interactions with busy men and women in our crackberry culture, where we simply aren’t always fully present to those we’re with anymore. Gotta check one more e-mail. One second, maybe that’s the big news. One second, I may need to deal with this problem. In a lot of one seconds … life’s eventually over.

Anyway, now I have images of Bush crackberrying instead of cracking fully-present jokes.

I’d use the whole elected-president thing as a good excuse to ditch my Blackberry! Do it for the children!