Did you sign up for the infamous Obama text message announcement? If so, you got punked.
It won’t sink in to many of those poor saps who signed up to receive Sen. Barack Obama’s “VP Pick” text message but they got punked–all in the name of fundraising. Obama had pledged to supporters that they would be the “first to know” who his running mate was going to be. They weren’t.
The Democratic presidential candidate got scooped by the media and the blogosphere on his own announcement and the unknown number of gullible supporters who gave up their e-mail address or cell phone number in order to receive the news, got duped. Call it political punking.
Bottom-line: The Obama camp amassed a reportedly huge database of cell phone numbers and e-mail addresses to use as they please for the fall campaign–and in return, supporters got a two-hour overdue message in the middle of the night for many of them. Talk about insult to injury. Speculation was that the announcement would come as late as 11a.m. or Noon today. But once the cat was out of the bag and Obama’s pick was unveiled around 1 a.m., the Obama camp had no choice but to send the message out while most reasonable people across the U.S. were sound asleep.
To remind people that they were punked by the campaign in the coming weeks, you can bet your last dollar that the Obama strategists will bombard those victimized e-mail “IN” boxes and cell phone numbers again and again as part of Obama’s ongoing fundraising efforts.
So let’s re-cap, if you gave Obama your e-mail address or cell phone number in the interest of getting a simple news alert, I have news for you. You were played by the latest political “playuh” to come down the street, Barack Obama. Now you know why the official Democratic Party logo depicts a donkey with his back legs raised in the air. You just got kicked in the head by the Obama campaign.
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It was a great marketing strategy, no doubt about that, because I would suggest that a large majority of those who gave their phone numbers for the text message are the young (18-30) demographic that usually have a low turnout with voting.
Now those same people, and I would suspect that many that did sign up were not even Obama supports, will most likely receive a text message every couple hours the few weeks before and up to, November 4 to remind these people to vote for Obama.
It actually may work to bring these people to vote more on Election Day.
These text message bills for these people will be sky high come October and November.
So much for helping the struggling middle-class. Same Ol’ Politics from the self-described “new politician”
Glenna,
I’d stick to the spin as I don’t think detective work is for you. The campaign sent a message asking if the recipient would like to be texd when any events are held in said recipients area. If you’d rather not get these texts (as I chose), you don’t respond. The campaign is not going to bombard supporters with texts unless they want constant updates.
You’re clueless. Get the facts if you’re going to offer opinions. For instance, I am on the McSame email list, so I’m kept up to date on what his inept campaign is up to next. Open your eyes. you’re missing an exciting race.
PEACE
Dear Deciders,
Feel free to post your rhetoric and ridiculous defense of the sputtering and stalled Obama campaign but please bring facts not just foolishness. If you think the Obama handlers aren’t going to mine the gold by bombarding those emails and cell phones for fundraising, you need to stop playing with your toys and tune into reality.
The only ineptness I detect here is yours in trying to convince the world that Obama-Biden is going to bring about change. We heard those promises from Nancy Pelosi and her congressional cronies and look how that turned out–the fewest accomplishments and the lowest approval ratings in history. And that’s saying something.
It’s clear whose eyes are really closed, Sir, yours.
Bologna-
I gave you facts regarding the texting options. All you (r)epukes ever say is “give us facts, not just foolishness”. But then when I give you facts, you repeat the same thing. I am not to blame if you choose to ignore the facts.
Have a wonderful week!
PEACE
Yes, indeed my friend, peace is the answer. Peace through superior firepower. As in don’t bring your weak arsenal of left-wing talking points in here and then start whining and crying when you get nuked.
We realize that liberals are “not to blame.” They never are. It’s always those mean ol’ Republicans who are blamed for everything. You can’t be held accountable because you never do anything of substance and instead sit around whining and crying about how bad everything is, how the government should do more to take care of you, and how downright mean this country is in 2008.
We’ve heard it all before. Just curious, when, if ever, have you been proud of this country?
I will for sure have a wonderful week, thank you. I plan to sit back and enjoy the silly circus that comes to town every four years, the Democratic National Convention. I love a good show. The pomp, the circumstance, the faux show of unity, and the complete cavalcade of style over substance. We haven’t seen this much fake fireworks since the recent opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Beijing. I can hardly wait.
Bologna-
“We haven’t seen this much fake fireworks since the recent opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Beijing. I can hardly wait.”
Yeah, and before that the Best Fake Fireworks event was unquestionably the “Mission Accomplished” speech, banner, and flight suit. Give me a break.
“Never liberals fault”, you say. Wrong. I take it to any “liberal” whom votes against my best interests. Obama’s drilling flip flop? I hate it. Mogadishu? Buck stops at Clintons desk. American citizens held hostage in Tehran? Carter didn’t do enough. You happy yet?
Your failure to recognize what is “bad about America” these days puts you in the camp of the w(r)ong wing RNC talking point hacks. You can’t even comprehend what is REALLY going on in today’s world, so you just say “America is never wrong”. What a fool you are. You can’t hang with me, dude. Didn’t we have superior firepower when the Iraq war was launched? Where’s the peace?
PEACE