If Phones Ring, Obama Is Here, With Cell Power

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Even though Verizon was on strike..............

If Phones Ring, Obama Is Here, With Cell Power

By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: August 19, 2011

CHILMARK, Mass. — To the slamming screen door, happy vacation chatter and other noises at the Chilmark General Store, add a less expected one this month: ringing cellphones.
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Verizon has installed two temporary cell towers, known as cell on wheels, on Martha's Vineyard for President Obama's family vacation.

Chilmark, a town of gentle hills and wandering stone walls in the outer reaches of Martha’s Vineyard, has spotty cellular service, at best, for most of the year. But when President Obama and his family arrive for what has become a yearly August vacation, something magical happens.

“Suddenly my phone starts ringing,” said Rachel Fox, an entertainment lawyer from Manhattan whose family has a home here. “There are people for whom this is a very big deal — not just that the president comes, but that their cellphones work while he’s here.”

The better reception is due to two temporary cell towers (known as cell on wheels) that Verizon puts up here and in neighboring West Tisbury, said Timothy R. Carroll, the executive secretary in Chilmark. He said the White House Communications Agency, which handles phone systems for the president and other federal officials, had requested the towers.

They went up in early August and will stay until the end of the month, Mr. Carroll said, adding, “I would have been happy if they came in July.”

If obastard calls to shake you down for fundraising...........

[thundley4]

It's a Miracle !!!  Obama makes unworking phones work.  Now if he could just do that with the majority of his voting base.

[delilahmused]

Wouldn't this make 0bama a scab?

Cindie

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Wouldn't this make 0bama a scab?

Cindie

I think that description fits, since he does cover a festering wound.