Will he text-message his SOTU too?
By NoQuarter on August 11, 2008 at 2:15 PM in Barack Obama, Veepstakes
This is utterly bizarre. He will not have a major press conference with his vice presidential choice at his side? If I were the selected “Second One,” I would be truly insulted. Via Heidi Li Feldman’s blog:
Senator Obama’s campaign announced yesterday that it will text-messaging, yes, text-messaging his choice of v.p. candidate to those who sign up for the message. I am not the only one who regards this as absurd. (Here’s commentary from somebody who writes a blog on a tech site.)
[B]y using this hip new form of making a major political announcement, Senator Obama avoids holding a press conference, thereby avoiding any chance he might be asked any question he does not want to answer.
This is consistent with Senator Obama’s approach to openness. He rents a football stadium but will not call for a genuine roll call vote with Senator Clinton’s name in nomination. He will text message anybody with a cell phone but he will not make himself available to reporters.
These are not democratic methods. They more closely resemble the techniques historically used by fascists determined to control and manipulate public opinion while at the same time ralllying public support or insisting on shows of them. …
Thanks for the tip, Suz.
Look, beyond the undemocratic nature of this — not allowing any questions from reporters — it is also indicative of the man’s laziness.
If he can’t be bothered to hold a proper press conference, what would he do if somehow he becomes president? Hide in the Oval and send his minions out to answer all questions? Phone in his speeches? Text-message his State of the Union speech?
It is also unseemly.
It dishonors both the vice presidential candidate, and the history of the critical selection of a vice presidential candidate.
What is the VP candidate supposed to do? Hold his own press conference? Open the front door of his home and greet the horde of reporters sure to be outside?
Talk about being left to fend for one’s self. My god.
Better make sure you sign up for the text message…those that do not will be the first ones to get rounded up if he wins…
Text message? What a stupid idea. Within 10 seconds it will be picked up by every news outlet in the world.
That’s the point. It’ll be a huge news story but The One doesn’t have to take questions. He gets his message out, lots of coverage, and no cost.
I agree with SusanUnPC. If I were his VP candidate, I’d be insulted and be having second thoughts about signing aboard this sinking ship. Obama isn’t treating this like a serious situation or even one worthy of his time.
This will backfire as surely as his European vacation did.
Hopefully he’ll send it to the right person? Wouldn’t that be a kick in the ass?
>>> This will backfire as surely as his European vacation did.
You mean the National Poltroon’s European Vacation?
This is a marketing strategy. Just think how much power all these cellphone numbers give him. Within minutes, he can reach Millions with whatever message he likes to distribute. It can very dangerous in the wrong hands.
Who shall determine The RIGHT Hands?
That’s probably why he is doing this, because of the cell phone companies. It costs money to send and receive a text message. Just look at how much money he is going to make for the cell phone companies! Hence donation from them to his campaign??? mmmmm…just a thought
Where’s Barry on Georgia? Shouldn’t he be less focused on mobile texting and come out of vacationland?
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=23260
This is what Barry should be worried about.
hi from hi every1! soz 2 keep u waiting on teh vp. it wasn’t ez, but here. hilz and I are efffl now cuz she has $, teh base and exp. she s tuff and can debate old dude for me, tho I said a3. I can’t win w/o her, so my wife can stfu and deal. aprrece8 all ur luv and $. go dems! amf… bo.
Wouldn’t that look good in a history textbook 25 years from now.
Oh, many books will be written about the brilliance of the Obama campaign and the very pathetic campaigns run by Clinton and McCain.
With lots of pictures for his disappointed fans. It will be called How the Zilch Stole the Primary and Lost the Election.
Very funny. You should get an agent and write this book. I would buy. And maybe you could donate profits to bringing down Hillary’s campaign debt. That is a win-win.
That brilliance of which you speak is only the sun in your eyes, dink.
Brilliance? LOL! He couldn’t close the deal against Hillary until the DNC carried him across the finish line (limping). Now, after the worst presidency in history, he is struggling to stay ahead of McCain. Debbie, you are pathetic. Take your O pom poms and cheer in front of the mirror in your room.
p.s. Hillary won more votes than any candidate in primary history, in either party. Let’s see you do that big mouth.
Oh, Debbie, come on now! What “brilliance” of the Obamarama Campaign are you referring to? You mean the dirty tactics of the Chicago political sewers rats that stole the ‘96 election from his AA mentor Sen. alice Palmer? Or the recent stealing of hte nomination from Hillary? Is using unDemocratic means and playing the dirty Race Baiting Cards in your dialect considered “brilliant”? I would disagee!
lmao Hope floats……………..classic
My thoughts exactly. On the other hand Andrea Mitchell (of all people) said that this will give him a bigger data base. hmmmmmmm Someone else said win or lose he can become very rich by selling his existing data base.
That’s what I think he’s up to. looking for an ew way to harass voters and beg for money. I already get a half a dozen e-mails a day from Obama dunning me for money. I sure as hell do not want them calling my cell phone and texting me day and night.
I mean they are driving me crazy and have been for over a year. You cannot get rid of them and I don’t have any idea how they got me into their database, but I cannot escape.
this is just so he can get your private information and keep hounding you, and if you dont vote for him,,i wouldnt be surprised his crew doesnt single you out, or get your id..they are all crooks and liars, i wouldnt give them my contact information or a way to track me and you are fool if you do
Must mean that the Reverend Manning is right and he offered Hillary the VP slot. I think it is on this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQzrDrw16W4
This is the link to savage site that talked about it -http://savagepolitics.com/
Wing! Dang! Doodle! Manning has a way with words..LOL!
source of the Rev.’s wang dang doodle reference…i have all of her albums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxCa16-nxtM
Koko Taylor is awesome!
I just finished watching “The Blues Story” and she did Wang Dang Doodle acapella—AWESOME!!
Is VP will text back KEWL!
Of course after the Paris Hilton Video showing she has better ideas than Obama on energy, she will get the nod. Of course I’m holding out for Paris for President
Aside from being outright weird, it feeds into the notion he is a narcisist. I mean, it’s manipulative to make people “join” his club just to find out who his pick is.
About a decade ago, that guy who founded Oreck Vacuum cleaners ran a tv ad in which he told viewers that he had a new website, and if they wanted the address to call a toll-free number “and I’ll dot dot dot give it to you!”
That ad went off the air pretty quickly, I suspect because someone realized that telling the viewer that they were going to have to do some work to get the “opportunity” to check out the product Oreck was trying to sell came off as arrogant.
This comes off the same way- want the jump on Barack’s VP choice? Just sign up for what will ultimately be years of junk mail. Your reward- learning the ID of the person destined to lose with Obama thirty seconds before the news media, MAYBE.
Pass. I’m not that breathless with anticipation to find out which loser gets to share your loss.
Seriously, who other than a boda fide, card carrying giver of the O-Hole salutewould be?
His campaign tactics just get weirder and weirder.
I wouldn’t want his silly text message on my phone anyway. It might have cooties.
Not to mention you have to pay for the text message! Yep, just taking money form those folks that are hurting.
Probably have to get Little Orphan Annie decoder rings to receive Oblahs special announcements too.
I used to belong the Roy Rogers club. Had the hat, six shooter, the whole package, but no secret decoder ring.
It was Captain Midnight who gave out decoder rings, and you had to drink Ovaltine to get one. I don’t think Kool-Aid labels worked.
I frikken MET Captain Midnight and my mom still has the photo of him holding me. I was four or so. I still HATE Ovaltine!
p.s. I was with the Davy Crockett crew myself… Coonskin Cap, Ol’ Betsy, and a pressed tin toy Alamo!
Do you think Davy Crockett ever met Annie Oakley?
Only on the back lot where they later filmed M.A.S.H.
Can’t forget my best friend at the time was sure she was Dale Evans!
I still have my Davy Crockett lunchbox!
You must not be old enough. I think you had to send in a seal from Ovaltine, maybe some money. Or was that for some other great prize?
I remember talking my mother into buying Ovaltine for something and she said, you won’t drink that. I assured her that I would. However, I think the box is still in a cupboard somewhere!
Ovaltine, young whippersnapper, required the seal that stretched across the jar to get the decoder. My older cousin says the decoder he remembers came from Little Orphan Annie but he’s a frikken dinosaur so what does he know!
Ovaltine would clump up and float on top of the milk so you’d get these “what the hell was that sorta chocolate but not dry powder” rushes that would have you choking so bad… the damned powder wouldn’t unclump until you started to inhale and then, POW!
Still, Cpt. Midnight had the coooolest little spaceship. Looked like the one in the Monopoly game…
Text-messaging his choice of v.p?
Too cute.
Proves he’s still a teenager deep down inside.
Yeah, I can just see it now;
“Hey R U REDDY FOR MY VP ANNOUNCEMENT? I M GONNA PICK…”
Yeah, I can just see it now;
“Hey R U REDDY FOR MY VP ANNOUNCEMENT? I M GONNA PICK (name of unfortunate one). L 8 R !!!”
Fortunately he won’t be President, so he can text message to his fool heart’s desire. Text messaging, my ass.
CNN calculates that Clinton would have taken Iowa
if the press had not deliberately suppressed
Edwards little hanky panky.
If someone will kindly tell me how to post a link here, I will be happy to do so.
Oh well, here’s a link to the link with commentary:
httpCOLON//newwavedemocratsDOTwordpressDOTcom/cnn-clinton-would-have-won/
Standard,
here is the actual link to the article you refer to…
Good try but your attempt to link did not work-however you were able to provide enough info so I could google it to find the website. Here it is.
http://newwavedemocrats.wordpress.com/index.php?s=clinton+would+have+won
I copied this directly off the address bar of the site-once I googled the information you gave me.
Now, click on the link I provide on this comments section. Should take you right in to website.
Next, go to the top of the screen while on this website…See the address field on top? All I did was copy this exact address. I DID NOT spell out the punctuation marks as you did in your post above.
Good luck!
Standard,
What I do to post a link is:
1- go to the website I want to forward to someone
2- go to the website’s address bar (on top of the computer screen)
3- left click on my mouse to highlight the website’ address
4-once address is highlighted, I rightclick on my mouse and select “Copy”
5-I go to the comment section on NQUSA post and right click my mouse again and select “paste”
OR
I can just go to the website’s address bar, note the full name of the website and type it in, in the comments section of NQUSA.
For example, if I wanted to send a link to someone of this article “”Will He Text Message His Sotu Too?” located on NQUSA, I would type in:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/11/will-he-text-message-his-sotu-too/#more-4122
on the comments section with a note to readers to link to it.
Some people also just give the name of the article, the author, the publication name & the date the article appeared in the publication so other readers collect these details and just google it on the internet to get their own link.
Definetely do any of these steps (copy, or type in website link or give name of author, title., publication date and publication name and we will find it. Thank you…This is very helpful to all of us if you do this. I ALWAYS check sources of information before I forward anything to anyone to make sure info & source is legit…
When I want to send a link I just hit “File”; then “Send Link by E-Mail”. When the e-mail comes up on my compyter I just cut the link and paste it where ever I want. I am lazy.
Will it say “BFF Howard E. Newmann”?
Should that be “Alfred E. Newman”?
WHAT ME WORRY ?
Howard, Alfred, doesn’t matter. Their only responsibility will be to taste food.
LOL probably! Monday morning is the pits!
Alfred yes! I think I got mixed up putting Howard Dean together with Alfred LOL
Understandable.
Obama will announce it by text message, and if you send in $3.00 you can also get the super kewl decoder ring. What a joke this candidate is!
LOL…Operators are waiting, and if you act now we will include Obamas new book on how to steal elections. Dial 1-800 blowme.
What a total Asshole
Gravitas?
OBlowme never heard of it
Will the VP be his BFF?
Can you say “laughingstock”?
CUL8R
>>> Gravitas?
Isn’t that another one of those Italian roadside weeds that the Saab drivers think is trendy chow?
Arrogant little sh*t, isn’t he? Disrespect, thy name is Hussein. Slightly O.T. - Since it is established that Barack Hussein Obama is not the name on his BC/COLB, that means that he chose that name. But now he wants to avoid part of it (his middle name)? Why is that?
his real name is Barry Soetoro.
if he was too lazy to legally change is name, he is in a boatload of trouble for his whole life! If he did, and didn’t tell anyone, it just shows he is an immature, self-absorbed, arrogant SOB whom I would never trust my life OR my dogs too! (added emphasis on dogs!)
Oh like so I mean kooll like he’s so hot and omg I just can’t wait and Ludicrous in the White House and Rev. Wright giving the Inaug. benediction and uh he’s soooo international and hot and he understands us and too bad all those stupid bitter old racists who don’t do t m uh er like ya know don’t get it
Ya, like, O and Mo’s juke, right?
The finest in dining and dancing this side of the Key Bridge!
Obma pks nu BFF VP. Q&A l8r. Much l8r.
That is a really smarmy way to get everyone’s phone number. Think I’ll hold off on that one.
I agree. The Obama folks are complaining that the polling numbers are off because “their” supporters use cellphones rather than land lines. Once they have your number, they can ring and ring for donations, too. Have to pay for all that pomp and circumstance.
Coronations don’t come cheap!
There are some people that feel this will just make the media mad because they will be left out of the loop. They won’t be the first to know. Hmm… I don’t know if that’s true, but I hope so. Keep pissing the media off Barry. Then maybe they’ll actually report the truth about you and actually ask you some tough questions.
Watch him screw that up, too. The message will start with er…umm…ths thng wrkn?
It`s so easy…even a caveman can do it.
Cool. Obarky has a new job after he loses (he never did much in the senate anyway).
OMG OMG I just got the VP text!!!! ITS PARIS HILTON!
My friend just received her text and she said it’s Scarlett Johansson!!!
I thought it was his adviser on the Middle East-George Clooney!!!
He must be waiting to see if Phelps gets his 8 gold medals.
haha…this is so insane…
The Obama campaign just wants everyone’s cell phone number so they can put in in their creepy database.
and then those same phone numbers will get listed as:
“Okay to tap”
lol
not only does he want to rule the world he wants to hear every word you speak…
Hope and Change join our text message list so we can control your world”
ring ring ” This is the messiah speaking”
Press 1 to join in with World Citizens.
Press 2 to join the USA
Hello
Hellllloooooooooo
Hello before you go press 3 to soak in and drink the “KOOL Aid”
Thank you for joining our World call in LIST .
Obama
~~Your Messiah~~
World Leader
=================
Running on empty ?
Call in to be replenished & revived…..
Sorry, this should have been posted in the thread below.
Hillary would have smoke McCain on this Georgia conflict. She has demonstrated her understandings of that region and the politics there.
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=23260
We must get Superdelegates to read this. It’s not too late you change their minds.
Please help get this message out, especially to radio, media and press.
This is totally bizarre. Like you say, Susan, what is the VP to do? I fervently hope it is NOT Hillary.
who elase would he treat like this?
You will get the text message during the first break on this seasons American Idol.
Now his supporters will get confused and write in Sanjaya this fall!
this is so his cult college kids will be informed because they dont watch the news ho hum yawn just another ya hoo stunt…already his vp has been thrown under the bus too….whata guy!!!!!
Obama must be under the mistaken impression that the college kids are the only ones voting this year. They are possibly, and I say possibly, the only ones who would get a kick out of this.
This is monumentally disrespectful to whomever his VP choice happens to be.
Why would Obama not call a press conference and have his “co-captain” standing by his side — proud to announce his choice — ‘this is the person I choose to help me lead the nation forward.’
Certain traditions have a purpose: Respect. Gravitas. The world is watching.
This is both callous and careless. A publicity stunt and completely juvenile.
Is this man trying to lose — just keep making boneheaded maneuvers, waiting to see how many of them it’s going to take before someone finally calls him on one of them.
It fits right in with the American Idol vibe of this sorry campaign.
Don’t see this making much of an inroad with those
bitter folks….do you?
Considering how AT&T purchased the DNC convention, and considering how Obama voted for FISA,….eh, I don’t want to just willing give them my phone number. kinda creepy
this way he can text message them to remind them to vote, of course he wont be in the top slot in November
I am sure he is going to step down from the race in October after the GOP unloads all their lovely oppo research……
The ONE doesn’t want to become the TWO, and anybody that agrees to become his VP under these circumstances is a complete moron.
“that it will text-messaging, yes, text-messaging”
should be :
‘it will text message’
or
‘it will be text messaging’
It will not be Hillary. If it were she would not be speaking of roll call votes and i am betting Big Dawg would have spoke with Obama more than twice over the phone.
You can bet it is not her. THANK GOD!!
I am betting it is Tim Kaine, and boy i hope so. That will be the last hole to sink his ship with fervent blue-collar life-long dems.
I heard the following; when you text message to find out who the VP is you are also agreeing to be put on a mailing list (by texting, you agree to this, etc, etc) Please correct me if I’m wrong.
I mentioned up top that I heard that the people who sign up for the text message also agree to have their phone tapped. I think it’s a part of that FISA deal that “Barack Obama” signed off on.
Obama can’t waste his time on such things. because Obama is king and the V.P is just a after thought. NO TO OBAMA AND HIS NEW KINGDOM.
OT but very interesting the birth certificate question is now reaching readers in Canada;
article at canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4406
Some person on a website that I will not name said that Obama had to have a valid BC because he has a passport and was overseas when these questions were raised.
This person also mentioned McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal Zone. No mention of the fact McCain was was born to two American citizens stationed overseas by the US government. Neither apply to Obama.
1. There were questions long before his ‘world tour’.
2. If this is true then why can’t he produce publicly said BC as McCain did?
3. If it’s valid to question McCain’s citizenship, a man who’s also traveled overseas many times, then why not Obama’s?
Sigh.
This will lock up the tween vote.
oh the fine print says that the selectee will have the honor of retrieving Obama’s vibrating cell phone to take the call.
Christ…don’t need that visual. Yikes.