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The AP reports Obama’s choice for VP will be Joe Biden. At least the wait is over. I was starting to get annoyed by all the Obama campaign emails asking me to join their text-messaging and email lists to be the first alerted of his veep choice.
What’s that you say? You still haven’t received your “first-to-know” text message?? oops…
Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware late Friday night to be his vice presidential running mate, according to a Democratic official, balancing his ticket with an older congressional veteran well-versed in foreign and defense issues.
Biden, who has twice sought the White House, is a Catholic with a generally liberal voting record and a reputation as a long-winded orator.
Across more than 30 years in the Senate, he has served at various times not only as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, but also as head of the Judiciary Committee, with its jurisdiction over anti-crime legislation and Constitutional issues.
The official who spoke did so on condition of anonymity, preferring not to pre-empt a text-message announcement the Obama campaign promised for Saturday morning.
Obama’s campaign arranged a debut for the newly minted ticket on Saturday outside the Old State Capitol in Springfiled, Ill.
The Democratic National Convention meets next week in Denver to hand Obama his long-sought presidential nomination, and then confirm Biden.
It’s a nice way for an organization to boost it’s voter contact list with phone numbers and emails, eh? Does anyone else feel a little cheated?
UPDATE: 3:00 am EST
Obama’s decision leaked to the media several hours before his aides planned to send a text message announcing the running mate, negating a promise that people who turned over their phone numbers would be the first to know who Obama had chosen. The campaign scrambled to send the text message after the leak, sending phones buzzing at the inconvenient time of just after 3 a.m. on the East coast.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I have the actual iPhone text message from Obama here: ” target=”_blank”>http://blog.tinou.com/2008/08/obamas-vp-text-mess... I was the first to know!
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I have the actual iPhone text message from Obama here: ” target=”_blank”>http://blog.tinou.com/2008/08/obamas-vp-text-mess... I was the first to know!
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I have the actual iPhone text message from Obama here: http://blog.tinou.com/2008/08/obamas-vp-text-message.html
I was the first to know!