August 22, at 11.50 pm I received a CNN Breaking News email announcing that Senator Obama had chosen Joe Biden as his running mate. Strange, because the Obama campaign had promised that it would text message whoever was generous enough to supply his or her cell phone number as soon as Obama had made his pick. Isn't it a bit sad that the Obama campaign gets outscooped on its own message? If this is an indication of the level of message control we can expect from an Obama White House, the media might be in for some good times the next four years. (I know, a qualifier is missing in the last sentence, there is still an election to be held...) After the news was made public by CNN, the Obama campaign rushed to get out the text messages at 2 am Chicago time, probably waking up a fair amount of supporters who forgot to switch off their cell phones.
On a different, but related note: when I left my office at the Loyola Water Tower campus yesterday, I caught a glimpse of the Junior Senator from Illinois, who was exiting the Park Hyatt hotel next door in a black SUV.
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