In April last year, US president Obama told some fundraisers that he was disappointed by the communications equipment he found in the White House: "I always thought I was gonna have like really cool phones and stuff," he said during a Q&A session with contributors at a fund-raising meeting in Chicago on April 14, 2011. "We can't get our phones to work." Acting out his exasperation, he said: "Come on, guys. I'm the president of the United States!...
