Obama’s 1am text
The last few days the world waited for the infamous text message from Barack Obama to announce who he has chosen to be his running mate.
The email to supporters to sign up for this text message said that because ‘we’ supported Obama throughout his campaign that we, not the media, should be the first to know about his pick. Personally I thought this was a pretty good idea.
Obama announced that he was going to have a rally with his new running mate this morning in Illinois, so I thought that it would be logical that the text message would be sent out yesterday. This way the press could report on it, leaders could embrace him, and the new running mate could stop being held hostage in his house by the media.
I waited, no text….waited, no text, checked my phone…no text. Obama avoided cameras all Friday, the only time that he spoke was to answer ‘when is the text going to be sent?’ To which he responded, “wouldn’t you like to know!” The talking heads on tv all chimed in saying that it could be sent any minute. Larry King was ready, Wolf Blitzer was ready, even Bill O’Reilly was ready. No text message.
Nightfall… I’m thinking to myself wouldn’t this be the perfect time to send it? No text… Around 10pm all the news channels start reporting that it has been confirmed that Joe Biden is Obama’s pick. Wait a minute! Hey Obama, why is John King on CNN telling me who you picked???? I still didn’t believe it though, I wanted the text message to come so I could know for sure (and I was still holding out for Gore).
1:08 am, my phone beeps…text message from Obama: “Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.BarackObama.com. Spread the word!”
Thanks for waking me up.
How cocky is Obama to think that I want to be woken up by this news?
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August 23rd, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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August 25th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
This is just another example of what an elitist celebrity Obama has become. It’s amazing how someone from his humble beginnings can become this way so quickly…