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On Friday, I turned on the local news at 6pm. The first thing out of the anchor’s mouth was about how you might be wondering why so many people are wandering around in a daze, holding onto their cell phones, BlackBerries, etc. and looking at them constantly. They’re waiting to read the text message from the Obama camp on who the VP pick is.
No matter what you think of him or his politics, Obama and his people understand how to use the technology to get maximum exposure and help the campaign. From raising vast sums of money via the Interwebitubes to this, the guy gets it the way Kennedy got TV and Nixon didn’t.
On the other hand, apparently this didn’t go off as planned because somebody leaked the news to the press. On the third hand, did it really matter? All day the networks talked about Obama, the potential VP and the text message. Constant publicity.
This decision shows how consistently democratic stupidity can be. First they pick this boob, then the boob picks another boob, when he could have had a 1st woman vice boob. Marketing 3 boobs have stopped global warming!
Presidential candidates are very simply, products. They are carefully packaged and rolled-out under a flamboyant and high-dollar marketing program. Consumers, having being drawn in by the advertising, then choose a shoddy piece of merchandise that they don’t need. With Obama-Biden, we get inexperience combined with hair plugs. With McCain we are offered drooling dementia coupled with rage. Like automatons, we will happily purchase one of these two products. Rosser Reeves couldn’t have done it better!
Everyone is anxiously standing by the telegraph office waiting for McCain’s VP choice.
#3. – con sarn it – I been standing trailside with an eye open for the pony express!
#2 you hit it right on the head..
now if only ralph nader would do what he does best and instead of running show the world what an edsil american politics really are!!!!
Corvair, not Edsel. Edsel was a fine car, it was “too much” for the American consumer though.
# 2 Springheel Jack said,
“Presidential candidates are very simply, products.”
Exactly. Products that are put out by political parties that spend hundreds of millions of dollars of investor’s money. Of course the “investors” that contribute to these campaign funds will expect a “return” on their investment from the winning candidate. I would not be too shocked to see the same investors contributing to both the Democratic and Republican campaigns. After all, it is guaranteed that one of them will win….
This whole thing is stupid. Just because you’re good at winning an election doesn’t mean you’re good at running the country.
Kudos to the Obama team for their knowledge of the power of text messaging.
McCain supporters are waiting for the messenger pony to show up any day now with his VP pick.