They now have to cope with the fact that they can’t Facebook, aren’t using Macintoshes, and aren’t permitted to Instant Message. Now they may actually have to work in the middle of this recession and wars, rather than spend the time on MySpace. Shock.

Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts.

What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.

Say it ain’t so!

“It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs.

Wow. So comforting that the spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief is making video game system similes to talk about the lack of Facebooking. I feel safer already.

It’s like Frat Boys Take 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “Dude, you mean there are no MySpace or Wiis?! That sucks, man. Now we’re gonna have to, like, work and stuff.”

Via HAH.