Someone named Barack Obama is running for president of the United States of America. If you want, you can give him your cellphone number, and he’ll text you who his vice-president will be sometime before the convention. (I’m pretty sure John Kerry e-mailed supporters after picking John Edwards, too.) That’s before his communications office sends out the official, hot-off-the-presses announcement to the likes of CNN and The One Newspaper Still In Business. It’s almost like you’re a member of a secret club!
Pretty blase for those of you inundated with technology all day long, but “regular” folks are sure to freak out over this “text messaging thing.”
Great, now when my customers come in with a broken phone they can have one more thing to complaint about. “I know I dropped my phone in the lake but what do you mean you can’t save my text message from Obama?” Like the message would actually be coming from his number anyway…..
They’ll freak out from text messages like they freak out from him being a celebrity and not a politician. This man is bad news. At least he is using a cell phone in this picture and not dancing to rap music on the Ellen show or shooting hoops in Iraq.
Yeah, or offering to enter his wife in a topless beauty contest surrounded by a bunch of biker dudes (because he’s a biker!), or calling for offshore drilling as if that’s magically going to lower gas prices. You know, because oil is a commodity whose price is set on the global market!
Both campaigns are pretty lame. George Washington must be proud.
Sounds great. My cell phone is the one piece of technology I own I haven’t been inundated with Obama-mania already, I was wondering to myself how I could go about hearing about him on that thing too. All is right in the world.
At least Barack Obama has the decency to do this as an opt-in thing. The press could learn a thing or two about that.
I hate politics…
As much as I disagree with Obama…this is a great use of technology and can be utilized today for the greater good by any business. Check out http://www.txtwire.com
Barack Obama sends text message…
Barack Obama loves to eat arugula…
Barack Obama plays basketball…
Barack Obama frequents Applebees…
Barack Obama goes to Berlin…
P-L-E-A-S-E!!!!!!!
Barack Obama has become a ridiculous cartoon strip.
LIVE BY THE MEDIA… DIE BY THE MEDIA.
Way to go Axelrod!