What would Obama be text messaging?

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BY TAMI ALTHOFF

Published: November 29, 2008

NORMAN — Like most Americans, President-elect Barack Obama doesn’t go far without his cell phone. During his campaign, Obama often was photographed texting on his BlackBerry. When he wasn’t using it, it was attached to his belt.

President-elect Barack Obama, wearing a Chicago White Sox baseball cap and carrying his Blackberry, leaves the University of Chicago Lab School after playing basketball, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

According to a story in The New York Times, Obama likely will be asked to surrender his BlackBerry before he takes office. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, Obama is subject to the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence up for public review and makes it vulnerable to subpoenas, the story states.

The story says Obama’s messages are "generally crisp, properly spelled and free of symbols or emoticons.”

This got me thinking. What if Obama is allowed to keep his BlackBerry? What texts might he send?

I came up with this list of five acronyms Obama is most likely to text after he is sworn in as president Jan. 20:

1. SSOS: Secret Service Over Shoulder

2. CANB: Clintons Are Nearby

3. OOOO: Out Of the Oval Office

4. ROFOAF1L: Rolling On the Floor Of Air Force 1 Laughing

5. NIMRG: Not In My Rose Garden

Other acronyms he may use are: TTTT, These Things Take Time (when asked why "change” isn’t happening fast enough); and TIMTN, This Is My Turf Now (when Bill Clinton just won’t go away).

One thing we probably won’t see him text: WWGBD — What Would George Bush Do?