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While most of the country was asleep, one man was ready to take that 3 am text message … [...] Read the rest »
A Hoax in Virginia
politico.com 8/21/2008 — At 9:40 this morning, a plugged-in Democratic lawyer in Richmond, Anne Leigh Kerr, emailed a group of fellow Virginian political types under an all-caps subject line: "Obama just announced Tim Kaine as the VP running mate."
Kerr said she ...
Hillary Still Calling Obama 'My Opponent'
newsbusters.org 8/22/2008 — Barack Obama is planning to announce his VP pick via text message to his supporters. So in the spirit of the times, let's text message something to Sen. Obama:
Brck: b fraid. b vry fraid. hlry stl h8s u.
That's what we glean from Hillary's ...
Obama Camp Will Send Text Tomorrow Morning
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 8/23/2008 — According to a campaign official, the plan is to send out the text message a few hours before Obama's 12pm CT event in Springfield. Most everyone in the national press corps think that it's Joe Biden. But no one knows, and no one is willing to ...
Obama-Biden
betsyspage.blogspot.com 8/23/2008 — This is what the media was in a frenzy about and had to spend the day staking out the houses of all the short-list guys? I hope that all those who signed up for the text message to be the first to know are happy about it, although it seems that the ...
Epic Text Message Fail? Media Gets Biden News Hours Before Supporters
techpresident.com 8/23/2008 — Shortly after 3 AM on the east coast, the long-awaited text message from Barack Obama announcing Joe Biden had finally arrived. But it was something short of letting the cat out of the bag. At 10:50 pm on Friday night , ABC News confirmed that Biden ...
The 3:00 AM Text Message
corner.nationalreview.com 8/23/2008 — Carl Cameron was just saying on FNC that some Dems think the 3:00 AM text message announcing the Biden pick might have been a veiled thwack at Hillary for her "3:00 AM ad." The guys as First Read also noted the timing of the message, though they don't ...
Why I Love/Hate Putz.
instaputz.blogspot.com 8/24/2008 — In a nutshell : OBAMA PICKS BIDEN: So Much for Change? That's unfair. He's at least as fresh a face as Madeleine Albright. Plus, an epic text message failure? Micah Sifry: "From a tech point of view, the mass txt message seems to have failed." On ...
Barack's Impersonal Text: Disappointing —
techPresident
"Brilliant. Effective. Revolutionary."
Those are the three words I thought I'd write in response to Barack Obama's text message announcing his Vice Presidential pick. Instead, the only word that comes to mind is "Disappointing."
Let me explain...
Having upgraded recently from a BlackBerry to a white 3G iPhone I went ahead and signed up on my new line for the updates. More text messages? ...
Obama's Text: Message Received, With a Few Garbles —
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By Jose Antonio Vargas It was the text message read 'round the country. But many had to wait minutes, and some for hours, to receive the announcement of Sen. Joseph Biden as Sen. Barack Obama's running mate. This was most likely a scaling issue, mobile experts said, with carriers' messaging systems overwhelmed by the number of people receiving the text. "It was one message that had to reach ...
The 3 A.M. Text Message —
The Caucus
When the phone rings at 3 a.m., it's usually an annoyance or an emergency. But that's the time the Obama campaign's text message announcing the candidate's vice presidential pick was delivered on Saturday.
Tale of the Obama Text Message —
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By Anne E. Kornblut and Ed O'Keefe CHICAGO, Aug. 23 -- Obama campaign advisers are pleased with their Joe Biden rollout -- which was kept secret until around midnight and later officially announced to supporters via text message. But some supporters are now saying they never got the text, or that it came many hours later, in some cases late Saturday morning. Richard Wanerman, 19, a student in ...
3 am Text Message: It's Biden —
Majikthise
The Obama camp sent out the following text message to its supporters at approximately 3:12 am on Saturday, August 23: TEXT MESSAGE TO SUPPORTERS:
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!
So...that Text Message came at 2:22am CDT —
RedState: Conservative News and Community
This was timed to catch who , exactly?
The promised Text Message from Barack, which was purported to be
a way of having supporters be "the first to know" who he was
"introducing to the world" as the campaign's VP pick (funny,
I'd heard of Joe Biden before this -- several times, in
fact, like when he said Obama was a dangerous candidate for POTUS
because he'd need "on the job ...
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No More Mister Nice Blog
My Text Message Says Biden Yeah, I know, the networks and Internets are all reporting it already. But I woke up around 4 a.m. this morning and there my cell was with a message from Barack. After hanging on to my cell since about Wednesday waiting for The Message, I can get back to my life, such as it is. As I penned over two months ago , I think Biden was about the best Obama could ...
Obama’s VP Announcement By Text Message —
The Democratic Daily
Barack Obama is using mass text technology to make his VP announcement to his supporters. Using this technology in this manner for the first time, the people signed up to receive the text, before the actual announcement, are planned to have a better sense of that personal involvement and exclusivity. Of course that ‘exclusivity’ will last a matter of seconds as every reporter in ...
Vlogorrhea, With Jason And Ana: Get Your Veep On! —
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Word has gone out that an aching world should prepare themselves, through a thorough vetting process, to receive The Most Historically Important Text Message Of All Time revealing the name of Barack Obama's vice-presidential pick. Very few have noted how the text-message format itself is something of a predictor: I am comfortable, for instance, ruling out the possibility that Obama's choice ...
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