I think this Obama VP text-message-alert thing is a cool but hilarious idea. And yes, I signed up to receive it by texting “VP” to 62262 (keypad code for “OBAMA”).
I’d really like to be in a public place when the choice is announced. I’m trying to think of the weirdest place for a cacophony of cellphones to start going off. It depends on whether it happens today or tomorrow. Since Obama has a big rally in Springfield, Illinois, at noon tomorrow, it’ll probably be around then.
So cellphones start going off tomorrow morning in synagogue sanctuaries across the country. They interrupt weddings. They echo off the walls of shopping mall atriums. Whole Foods franchises resound with the sound of electronic beeps as we Democrats make our weekly arugula purchases.
Ooh! Ooh! I know the best place to be! The Park Slope Food Coop!
It’ll be a gas.
“So cellphones start going off tomorrow morning in synagogue sanctuaries across the country.” Heh, do you guys watch Entourage? Reminds me of when Ari has a major deal going on — and it happens to be Yom Kippur — and is going crazy trying to sneak around and use his phone to close the deal.
This is a good omen that the Obama folks REALLY have it together. I mean, the press is just running around in circles repeatedly babbling that they have no information. It’s actually kind of a big “up yours” to the media. What will really be awesome is if it turns out not even to be one of the three boys the media have decided are on the “short-list.” Being able to contain this kind of leak-prone news means these people are disciplined!!! (Unlike the McCain campaign…they make the Penn/Clinton campaign look good.)
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