# Obama VP text message: Who's signed up? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673 "2008-08-20T15:38:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/61 "2008-08-23T05:19:41Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] What, these people didn’t know they hadn’t signed up to get the message, nor realized it wasn’t forwarded from somebody they know? [/QUOTE] No no, Obama’s people for not realizing that waiting several days would give the hoaxers and hackers room to play. I don’t have a dog in this fight. I don’t care who Obama picks. Anyone short of Lyndon LaRouche, I’ll vote for him anyway, but I just thought it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/62 "2008-08-23T05:34:18Z")
Once the Secret Service was spotted at Biden’s house, there was no way to keep the cat in the bag. Too bad they got scooped on the text message, but I suspected this would happen. I think they waited too long. They should have texted this morning. I had a sense it would be Biden just from his demeanor with the reporters at his house the last couple of days. He was so jocular about everything and the other shorties seemed kind of bummed. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/63 "2008-08-23T06:44:55Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] I guess it’s moot, now that Biden being the pick has been announced before the text message went out. ☹ [/QUOTE] It’s petty of me, but I’m a bit annoyed. This is an easy one, and they messed it up. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/64 "2008-08-23T07:19:04Z")
Bzzzzzzzzzz “Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee.” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/65 "2008-08-23T07:38:21Z")
Got mine just a minute ago. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/66 "2008-08-23T10:25:49Z")
In terms of stage-management they wait too long by a few hours. The did a good job of plugging leaks from the campaign people, but the SS did them in. They will learn from that. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/67 "2008-08-23T12:45:49Z")
Still haven’t gotten any message OR email. I thought us donors were supposed to get “the scoop?” ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/68 "2008-08-23T15:32:41Z")
I got an e-mail at 3:49 am PST, but never got a text. However, I never texted to that number that I heard everybody else did—I signed up by entering my phone number on the website after receiving an email inviting me to sign up for the text announce. So- something didn’t work…bummer ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/69 "2008-08-23T15:50:39Z")
I got my text at 2:44 am CST, but I’d already read the news before I went to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/70 "2008-08-23T18:10:23Z")
I’m considering all reports to be hoxes until I actually get my Obama campaign text message, which, as of 14:09 EDT, I haven’t. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/71 "2008-08-23T20:57:35Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] Is it just me, or did McCain squander a golden opportunity by not announcing his pick while we’re all waiting for Obama? He could’ve had everyone’s attention focused on him for a change, rather than letting Obama continue to be the center. [/QUOTE] **What** golden opportunity? The opportunity to have the attention taken away when Obama later makes his pick? Or the opportunity to take away the negative attention Obama’s been getting lately? Seriously, I don’t see your point at all. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/72 "2008-08-23T21:28:25Z")
I got my text in the middle of the night as well. However, I wasn’t watching the news before I went to bed. I’m thinking they wanted to wait to send it this morning, but they got scooped. However, I can’t say I really like middle of the night text messages. I thought someone was drunk dialing me. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/73 "2008-08-23T23:09:33Z")
I was pretty startled when I got a text message at 3:25 am Eastern, let me tell you… ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/74 "2008-08-23T23:17:46Z")
[QUOTE=Rasa] I was pretty startled when I got a text message at 3:25 am Eastern, let me tell you… [/QUOTE] I figured that was what it was. I saw the news online before that. They definitely got scooped because the media found out that the SS was going to Biden’s house. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/75 "2008-08-24T00:28:03Z")
Mine finally came in at 2am Pacific. Which means they didn’t solve the problem of sending all the notices out at once. So, even if they had beat CNN with the first text message - a number of people still would have seen it in the news long before they got the text message. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/76 "2008-08-24T00:39:18Z")
[QUOTE=amarinth] Mine finally came in at 2am Pacific. Which means they didn’t solve the problem of sending all the notices out at once. So, even if they had beat CNN with the first text message - a number of people still would have seen it in the news long before they got the text message. [/QUOTE] Hey, it’s 8:39 EDT, and I’m still waiting… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673/77 "2008-08-24T04:26:08Z")
Did any of you get your complimentary “bucket of warm spit”? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vp-text-message-whos-signed-up/460673.md?page=3)