Comments on On the Phone With Team Obama

If old people want to find out right away who the VP pick is, they can learn to use modern technology. Unless the Obama campaign decides to completely supplant a press release with personal electronic notification, that question was a waste of breath.

But then again, radio really has devolved into the most grating of mass media, so maybe this level of insipidity is to be expected.

Mainstream media has to ask about who will be alienated by a candidates policies and practices - if they can't create conflict, they don't have a story. "Will hearing-impaired people be offended by your use of audiophonic technology to announce your VP?"

Just because McCain is more comfortable with the telegraph doesn't mean that Obama should be limited to 19th century technology, too.

The whole text/e-mail thing is a gimmick anyway, designed to collect e-mail addresses. Anyone watching CNN (or listening to news radio, for that matter) will get the news long before that e-mail (or text message) gets through the servers and reaches x million people.

Excuse me?

Everyone knows you tell people about your VP pick by a relationship change or status update on Facebook or MySpace.

Texting is so last century.

Next thing you'll tell us is he'll change his "r-i-n-g-t-o-n-e" to be a song of praise for the VP chosen ... [had to change this due to your filters, Stranger ...]

(meanwhile, McCain is still shopping for tubes in Alaska, and will use semaphore flags to indicate his choice for really-old-white-guy VP nod)

Well, McCain's promised to mail me a punch-card with his nominee on it, so there!

We won't support spine-less NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November. Go Hillary 2012!!!

We NO support Hillary November go him less defeat re-2012 spine won't Bama???

We the people, in order to support a greener leafy nation, will totally not use this for non-medical purposes, and will paint our rebel flags on the tops of our gas-guzzling corvettes.

Yee ha!

Since the mainstream media will report Obama's VP pick about seven seconds after anyone gets it by e-mail or text, people who aren't internet-savvy will get it from CNN and Fox without any appreciable delay.

I mean, does anyone even imagine that the news media didn't immediately sign up for the e-mail/text alerts? Any and all reporters following the Obama campaign will have done so right away.