Wonkette
- 3:14 A.M.!!!: WOW, Barry Obama first lets every news network figure out his VP before his “fans,” and then he has the nerve to send the Biden text at 3:14 A.M. IN THE MORNING EASTERN TIME. Good thing we are awake for no reason. And yet: ha ha, “tech-savvy” Barack Obama just woke up his most devoted followers at 3:14 a.m. after a tiring work week. But we assume this is another red herring, with a secret clue — his actual running mate is the number “Pi” rounded to two decimal points.
Obama/Pi just sounds delicious. In a couple of different ways. I’m tired.
Emotional malpractice, I tells ya. Media scooped my inbox. *sniffle*
Are you kidding. He’s sending out a 3 A.M. PHONE CALL. Announcing that his VP isn’t Hillary. Is that the biggest “fuck you” ever, or what?
What a day.
Don’t newspapers go to print around this hour? I don’t envy the job of being a political beat reporter forced to write an entire Biden article in the 10 minutes before the weekend edition goes to the presses just to be able to scoop the other papers who won’t be able to squeeze in a full feature.
If you go to Barry’s website, you can send Biden a Welcome Note! How kind. We must shower Biden with wishes of Truck Nutz.
I’m guessing he probably wanted to wait a few hours but discovered these “multiple Democratic sources” have been running their mouths to CNN and anybody else who will listen.
InsidiousTuna: I saw that too. I didn’t even get a text or email. I’m totally voting for McCain now.
Fuckin A, if i knew it would be 3:23 am… That’s what my phone called it, I think I actually got it earlier, considering my post on Wonkette at 3:20. I guess Verizon’s heralded Network (TM) doesn’t really keep time all that well in the middle of the night.
In other news, they paved my street! I’ve been driving around manhole covers, water valves and road work for weeks, while having to listen to traffic go over ground-down rough surface stuff. Very disconcerting when all you’re trying to do is nurse a semi while watching rhythmic gymnastics.
I was awake around 1am for one side of the street, but somehow actually fell asleep during the paving, steamrolling etc. of the near side. They’re done - street lines and everything! This is the best news I’ve gotten all night!
Shit man. I just now, like 15 minutes later, got the text. Freakin’ Biden, man. Boo. That’s all I’ve got.
At least he will shit talk some Republicans, hopefully nothing too crazy. It’s getting even more like Kennedy/LBJ all the time.
Rodney Badger: Totes with you. I’m deleting my Wonkette bookmark and joining the community at hcsmjm.org.
Joe Biden is a true patriot. He was already casting votes in the UNITED STATES SENATE while John McCain did nothing but LIE in bed all day and complain in VIETNAM. In 1972, while John McCain was was on FOREIGN SOIL bad mouthing the American government, Joe Biden was REPRESENTING DELAWARE in some capacity. I’M NOT REALLY SURE about what Joe Biden has done but John McCain makes me WANT TO THROW UP! Also I’M drunk, which sort of makes me want to throw up.
It’s 3 AM, and a phone is ringing in every house in America. It’s the President. He says “O hai! we can has veep!”
I’m tired. Can we go straight to the election now?
Oh yeah, no one has actually been nominated yet,
and McCrusty doesn’t have a veep yet.
Who is Joe Biden, the media are whining all over the place.
I hate cable tee vee.
itgetter: Obama/Pi - is that anything like a Black-and-White cookie?
? What’s with all the negativity? And I can’t believe Jim didn’t get the 3am joke, which is brilliant. Biden is the bestest veep choice. Those debates are going to be AWESOME. Best. Election. Ever. (P.S. Biden’s son was just deployed to Iraq.)
I’m expecting my text at 4.20 PST. That’s the only time text messaging works on the West coast.
So the Chicago politician chooses a Washington hack and plagiarizer. No doubt we’ll be hearing more of the words of Neil Kinnock out of Biden’s mouth.
How the hell did we get to this point?
The Democrats now have two crap candidates on the ticket. Sadly the person in the party who would actually make a good president, George Mitchell, never got in the process. Instead we have Oprah’s favourite Chicago politician leading the ticket and some guy who looks like he should be the highest volume used car dealer in the state of Delaware rounding it out.
As for the whole text message thing, it is just another cog in the Obama marketing campaign. All Obama seems to be, other than a giant phony, is deceptive marketing campaign managed by modern Leni Riefenstahls trying to make him seem like a latter day John F. Kennedy instead of the latter day Richard J. Daley he actually is.
The insane Vietnam vet is at least not hidden by a flashy marketing campaign. The only thing that is better about McCain is that he is not a Chicago politician, just a Washington hack. He is the least worst option, but barely.
With McCain and Obama it is like you know you are going to get shot by some whackjob, but you have a choice of which gun they will shoot you with. McCain is the least worse option.
We’d be better off choosing someone at random out of the phone book instead of these idiots who shouldn’t even be elected to the school board of Pahrump, Nevada let alone anything higher.
TJBeck: this is evidence of the astonishing efficacy of the Obama/Biden decision. All the streets will be well-paved (with rosy-fingered Dawn you will see that they are paved with gold, and the garbage trucks now sound like choirs of angels).
I’ve kinda liked Biden ever since that Senate hearing when he said “Don’t listen to Donald Rumsfeld. He doesn’t know WHAT the hell he’s talking about” and then followed up with the that debate gem about Rudy G: “Noun, verb, and 9/11.”
Triborough: Ha ha, you almost had me thinking you were serious, up until the “modern day Leni Riefenstahls” bit. Good one!
Triborough: Hilltard BAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW
choosing someone at random out of the phone book……
Yoo know what ahm shick of? ( takes a drink and a drag off of camel)
No , waddya shick of? (lifts head from bar and blearily looks in her direction)
Im shick ud dese dam fake bitterz using dem ol’ clashays. emppy soot, ramdam phone book, arrrogalla,…….
Whadahell….. When i down’t lik somebody, atleese nobodie has to tell me why I don’t lyke him
I just don’t like hiz blak azz!
DAMMIT!( falls off stool, pissy drunk)
3AM BWAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAH!!!!!!!
I worked my ass off for Biden in Iowa, and I want my GD text message!
4tehlulz: Really? My vote was for Paultard. (though the name DOES suggest a NYC connection, the continual ‘washington hack’ comments makes he/she seem pretty anti-establishment.) Would you like to let us know who wins the lucky “I figured out who the jackoff supports” prize, a brand new shiny set of Truck Nutz, Triborough?
Oh, and can I just say how pissed I am that I had to be TOLD about this in bed at 7am after my hubby woke up and checked his phone? I missed the big moment! You REALLY couldn’t have sent the damn text at, say, 1am mfer?
That’s only 9:14 PM in the elitist sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii.
Fucking hell. I gave up around 2:30, went to bed, and now discover the announcement almost 8 hours after it went out.
Is everything going to be done on Hawaii time now? I’m having second thoughts about this shark-god worshipper.
mattbolt: Seriously, I got mine at about 3:29 and my first thought was to read between the lines: “It’s 3 a.m. and you’re sleeping Hillz and I’m running for preznit muthafuckaa!!”
jagorev: Well, what time is it in Panama?
One word makes this point:
BIDEN?
Ahahaha, 3 a.m. text, Bubba’s gonna love that one.
By the way, am I wrong about this?:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Joe_Biden,_official_photo_portrait_2.jpg/397px-Joe_Biden,_official_photo_portrait_2.jpg
&
http://z.about.com/d/comicbooks/1/7/d/B/joker.jpg
mattbolt: The 3am call flew over Wonkette’s head? Seriously? But hey, their thing about the serifs on the Obama/Bayh bumper sticker was super-hilarious. Oh, and the “Pi” thing, too. Like ROTFLMAO funny.
ReverendGreen: Yeah, they look exactly alike. Cause they’re both smiling. And um.. They’re, uh.. both clothed.
eff that. I got the bad news at 4:30am Eastern time! I must have been in the second-tier of supports….
Triborough: least worse?
I haven’t even gotten my text yet. *sigh* Another Friday night..waiting for some guy to contact me..Will it never end?!
herpezhilton: Hey, if I could find the Joker’s GQ cover shoot where he took off the facepaint and wore a suit without a tie, I would’ve. But the smile, slick-backed hair and Joker’s 3-state division plan for Iraq are all spot-on.
Heh. I was at some ghetto ass bar in Oakland where my friends were working the pole when I found out. W00t!
It’s 3 AM… and the phone is ringing. Who do you want to answer that phone?
Last night/early this morning my phone rang at 3:03 AM. I answered it.
ReverendGreen: It’s already been done, and better: http://totallylookslike.com/2008/08/20/laura-bush-totally-looks-like-the-joker/
BARRY PICKED BIDEN FOR V.P. !!! Oh, wait, you all knew that already? I guess I sould have been smarter and got one of those text thingies. Next time I’ll know better.
My phone market my text message at 3:13 AM. Sounds like I really was first to know!
Except I had fallen asleep on the couch watching SmackDown and didn’t hear about it until after 6…
Jim Newell,
It’s a take-off on Hillary’s 3 AM call ad. I was still up here on the West Coast and saw it on NightLine. Well, he lied to all those people that signed-up for the text message. I didn’t, so, I don’t know what I would do if I got that call at 3 AM. Or Pi with a colon instead of a decimal point. That was pretty clever (3.14), but what does it really mean? I guess I am not enough of an elitist to use my advanced math skills to read enough into it. Maybe, it just means were fucked?
Sincerely and respectfully,
Mr-Clark
Well, I shoulda known. Barrack texted me at 3:14 a.m. and said, “DO U WANNA HAV BUTT-SECKS? CALL XXX-XXX-XXXX.” It turned out to be Hillary’s number. Who else answers at three a.m. and believes that I should be nuked to oblivion?
While Hillary is ready to answer the phone at 3 AM, Obama texts me at 3 AM.