Thanks for Waking Me Up At 3:21 In The Morning With That Bogus Text Message
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Aug 25 2008 at 8:55 am | Filed under: Election 2008, Politicians at Work
The best rundown of the frustrated “Obama VP pick text message disaster” victims, and their feelings about it, has got to be Lugosi (H/T Ash Blog Durbatulûk, via Neo Neocon). And I’ll tell you that right now. I won’t wake you up with my pick.
Barack Obama has chosen Delaware Senator Joe Biden to be his running mate, and it just cost the Democrats my vote.
No, it’s not that I have anything against Biden. My complaint is that I had signed up to get a text message the moment Obama made his choice public. And when did he decide to do this? At 3 goddamn 21 in the freakin’ morning on a Saturday!?!?!?
Cajun Boy in the City comes up with a funny ad for Obama’s competition:
Ominous voiceover: It’s 3AM. You and your children are sleeping peacefully. Until your cell phone starts ringing that is.
Cut to: (A little girl in her bed looking frightened. She rubs her eyes and her lower lips quivers.)
Little girl: Mommy Daddy what was that noise that woke me up from the dream I was having about unicorns and rainbows? Mommy Daddy I’m scared!
Ominous voiceover: Who do you trust not to waste taxpayer money by sending you horseshit text messages from the White House at 3AM and scaring the bejesus out of your peacefully sleeping children in the process? John McCain would never do that because John McCain can’t even operate an electric toothbrush, much less a mobile device.
John McCain voiceover: I’m John McCain and I approve this message.
This is metaphorical, I think, of what President Obama will be doing after January 20. I’m quite serious. It fits in very well with the ideas of the Carter administration in the late 1970’s. Someone would say “Oh I got an idea on what to do next,” and someone else would say “Hey, that’s great, people will love it” — I mean, I wasn’t anywhere near the Oval Office in 1977, but with some things, it’s pretty easy to see how everything went down…y’know? You can kind of read the tea leaves.
Carter and Crew would put it into operation, and the results would be very much like Obama’s text messaging event: A bunch of people having elected to participate, now sorry as hell they did, standing around and going “WTF???” I saw it with the solar panel on the roof of the White House. I saw it with Operation Eagle Claw. I saw it with the Malaise Speech. I saw it in just about everything he did, with regard to foreign and domestic policy.
It will keep happening with President Obama, I say. Why? Because with decent leadership, and the ability to consistently achieve satisfactory results — solutions are spiffy when the situation calls for them, and dull and boring otherwise. This isn’t something Obama can do. Everything must be snazzy — all the time. And when an idea is snazzy, those who are most invested in peddling it, and therefore have the greatest influence on its implementation, are blind to possible drawbacks and liabilities.
And so smart people do stupid things, like waking up the most enthusiastic supporters at three o’clock on a Saturday morning. With the news that the new veep of the HOPENCHANGE!!! ticket is some old white New England liberal guy who’s been suckling at the public teat in the Senate chamber for over 35 years.
Obama’s idea bombed. America now stands warned.
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