Look what came in the mail yesterday:
I hope it gets counted.
VP announcement by txt?
Happened upon this interesting tidbit on The Trail on The Washington Post:
“Da vp iz?”
In text messaging lingo, that translates to “The vice president is?”
Four years ago, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) announced his vice presidential nominee, then Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), at a morning rally in Pittsburgh.
How times change.
Last night, in a cell phone text message that was quickly followed by an e-mail linking back to a new page on his Web site — my.barackobama.com/vp — aides to Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) campaign wrote: “Barack will announce his VP candidate choice through txt message between now & the Conv. Tell everyone to text VP to 62262 to be the first to know! Please forward.”
What? Not Twitter?!.
Note: I’m not sure if that number works internationally. I sent a text message but didn’t get a confirmation.
Findlay, Ohio: Change=fear
From MSNBC: In Flag City USA, where false Obama rumors fly.
“I think Obama would be a disaster, and there’s a lot of reasons,” said Pollard, explaining the rumors he had heard about the candidate from friends he goes camping with. “I understand he’s from Africa, and that the first thing he’s going to do if he gets into office is bring his family over here, illegally. He’s got that racist [pastor] who practically raised him, and then there’s the Muslim thing. He’s just not presidential material, if you ask me.
Time for me to bang my head against the wall, scream, then go to work.