Obama: Wud U like 2 kno my VP 1st?
By Ed Oswald | Published August 11, 2008, 12:59 PM
The presumptive Democratic nominee for President said over the weekend that subscribers to his text messaging list would be the first to find out his vice presidential choice.
Alerting users of such important news via text is only the latest way Barack Obama has turned his back on political conventions. Typically, such an announcement comes during a carefully staged rally or campaign event. While such an event may still happen, it surely wouldn't have the suspense of other campaigns.
The message sent out Sunday night read, "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."
Sen. Obama has regularly been using his texting lists to promote special appearances, campaign news, and even to solicit donations and volunteers. About two dozen texts have been sent to supporters since the campaign first started the program last year. Other 2008 candidates including Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Mitt Romney also used texting, but not to the extent Obama has.
Political pundits are widely expecting Obama to announce his choice sometime next week, about a week before the August 25 start of the Democratic Convention in Denver. However, the announcement via text could come earlier than that, possibly sometime this week.
He is a joke, under him there will be one OS, the one produced and given away for free by the gov, just like the gov cheese.
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|Another option is to get the notice by email (per the email I got from barackobama.com today).
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|I saw McCain on the news today, and he really doesn't look like he can make it 4 years in the White House. I got to go with Obama, at least he's in no danger of falling down and breaking his hip.
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|Voting on looks?
How "13 yr-old girl" of you. ;)
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|"I saw McCain on the news today, and he really doesn't look like he can make it 4 years in the White House. I got to go with Obama, at least he's in no danger of falling down and breaking his hip."
I give you the typical Obama voter, America. I weep.
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|People like you are dumber than a box of rocks.
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|Yeah, a 13year old girl that has friends and family getting shot at in Iraq. If McCain is in the White House I fear they will be stop-lose indefinitely. So yeah, I'm voting on looks, McCain looks like he's going keep my friends in Iraq till they get hurt or worse.
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|Way to write an article about your advertiser. Baraq voted for the 1st and 2nd patriots acts, for nuclear and coal-based energy, every spending increase surrounding the gulf war (yet he claims he's anti war), and he just voted to tear apart the 4th amendment. I like black people, he's just not one of them. Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, and Ron Paul are all more ethical options.
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|Why worry about taxes when the cost of living is going sky high? Taxes only travel in one direction UP!!! Does not matter who is in office
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|well, how would they be texted as?
BigB, 2timer, or Homey?
(hillory, edwards, mitt, resp.)
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|lol
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|Oh American politics...good god both Mccain and Obama can gigabyte me.... They both suck plain and simple and the propaganda they push is nothing but annoying to me. Exxon puts out more believable commercials than those two.
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|ie more propaganda. Anybody out there not put out propaganda? Exxon is notorious for it. Always have government run fox noise channel :P Okay now that I've aired out my politics. No I didn't sign up for the texts. because it meant more than just veep slot. And texting isn't cheap. Signed up for the email alert though
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|like it matters
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|Playing to the lowest common denominator. He might not have a clue how to run a nation, but he sure can play the unwashed masses.
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|"He might not have a clue how to run a nation"
Says who...McCain? That's laughable...call me when he learns to use facts in his ads rather then his own made up fiction.
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|You certainly got that right.
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|I think both ad campaigns so far are total garbage.
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|No, I didnt say McCain...but you sure don't like me having an opinion on Obama.
I also think he is marxist, pro tax, pro abort and a pacifist to the point of making us unsafe against America's enemies who don't care about any diplomatic maneuvers.
Nothing about what I just said was from your current boogyman, McCain. Thats just what Obama has said through his actions, statements and history.
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|Pro tax? I'm assuming you think he'll raise your taxes...I guess if you're making more then $250k, you'd be right...otherwise, you listened to too many McCain commercials.
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|The Republican party keeps bringing up the same thing election cycle after election cycle; that being that Democrats will raise taxes, that Democrats are marxists, communists and that they are pro abortion.
There hasn't been a Republican president as far back as I can remember who hasn't raised taxes. Reagan's budget director coined the term "revenue enhancements", a fancy term for tax increases, and Reagan did indeed raise taxes. Roosevelt introduced Social Security, most certainly a socialist, communist idea. You can cancel yours anytime you wish, by the way if you're against socialist/communist programs like that. And pro abortion? What is wrong, pray tell, with allowing a woman the right to choose. Denying that right, if anything is communist thinking. Laws against anything, including abortion mean more crime which means more police to enforce those laws which means more money to prosecute/defend these so called criminals and more judges, corrections officers and more prisons and last, but not least, more dysfunctional and separated families, and so on and so forth.
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|"pro abortion - what's wrong with that?"
Where to start???!!! While it may be the woman's body where the child is awaiting birth, the child's body and life is not hers do to do with as she so pleases.
And yes it is a child. If you look at what happens the second the an egg is fertilized, the DNA code that this child will have for their entire life is created. At no point in its existance after that is their DNA altered in any way, shape or form.
She is only going to ever give birth to a human being. Not a piece of tissue, not a dog, not a girraffe, but a living breathing human being.
By the time a woman finds out that she's pregnant, the child has feet, hands, a beating heart and brain activity. Even without that, she is not going to give birth to anything but a child and it is a child within her.
So "what's wrong with abortion"!!!???
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|I find it funny that the dems say no capital punishment but ok for abortion. So it is bad to remove a murderer from society but ok to remove an innocent child that can not defend his or herself. If a child is not wanted then maybe they should stop the action that causes that child. Shame on the men that think that their responsibilty ends after the action. Man up and take on your responsibility.
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|He will raise taxes. How else will he pay for all those socialist entitlement programs he plans to offer!
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|Im sick of hearing about the abortion crap, not that im for or against it (depends on the situation).
Your wrong about the breathing part.
"Hi Bill, who is your dad"
"Oh hes in jail, he raped my mother and gave her me"
Hearing that is just wrong and it shouldn't happen.
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|And what about all those democrats that year after year just continue to whine whine and whine.
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|"He might not have a clue how to run a nation"
The one we got now doesn't have a clue how to run a nation. And after 8 years of Bush a ph***in' gerbil can do a better job.
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|Then we need to start killing the rapists instead of the babies - DUH.
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|"Roosevelt introduced Social Security, most certainly a socialist, communist idea. You can cancel yours anytime you wish"
EH !?!?!
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|Never said all democrats are Marxists. I said Obama is. His history and affiliations prove that. McCain won't say it but Obama has a looong history of marxist tendencies that would make some CPUSA members blush and nothing anyone says can change that fact.
Frank Marshall Davis is a member of the CPUSA and Obama proudly mentioned him in his book as being a childhood mentor. He admits to attending "socialist" conferences.
What is astonishing, is that people would rather put up a flaming communist who has zero experience both militarily and civic (Chi town is hardly civic duty, its organized crime) who came out of nowhere instead of a moderate republican who irked many from his own party for his maverick views.
He has 22+ yrs of military service under his belt and 26+ yrs of civic duty under his belt to use in situations of adversity and trial. Obama has zero. Nothing to indicate how he would handle a crisis... Zilch.
Im no huge McCain fan but his positions side much more in line with our founding fathers than Obama who's views lean more towards those who support Che frickin' Guevara. Che Guevara! A murderer and criminal who killed thousands to introduce communism into an island 50 miles off our coast under the guise of revolution. Then DNC HQ's in Texas fly a Che flag as if its something to be proud of.
I feel sorry for this country if we elect Obama. She will get what she deserves, but I will feel sorry for her.
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|Yah but they think its a "cruel and unusual punishment"
Like **** it is. Kill them all. Eye for an eye in this case.
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