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David Plouffe E-mailed me (along with another couple million of his closest friends)!!

Dear (Sprots):

Barack Obama is about to make one of the most important decisions of this campaign -- choosing a running mate.

You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be the first to know his choice.

Sign up today to be the first to know:

http://my.barackobama.com/vp

You will receive an email the moment Barack makes his decision, or you can text VP to 62262 to receive a text message on your mobile phone.

Once you've signed up, please forward this email to your friends, family, and coworkers to let them know about this special opportunity.

No other campaign has done this before. You can be part of this important moment.

Be the first to know who Barack selects as his running mate.

Thanks,

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

I signed up, and I still bet that some of y'all know before I do.

I thought he was asking you to be the veep.

Ritterskoop wrote:I thought he was asking you to be the veep.

That would have worked.



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The only way I get to be VP of anything outside Colorado is in one of Picard's alternate universes. Thanks anyway, Skoop.

Where's my email?

I prefer getting letters from Obama rather than emails.

It's much more fun to tear up a letter than to delete an email.

silverscreenselect wrote:I prefer getting letters from Obama rather than emails.

It's much more fun to tear up a letter than to delete an email.

So far I have received two letters from Obama and one from McCain. All the letters came with snazzy business reply envelopes. I wrote comments on both of their requests for money and then used the envelopes that they so nicely sent to me to return my notes to them.

SportsFan68 wrote: Barack Obama is about to make one of the most important decisions of this campaign -- choosing a running mate.

You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be the first to know his choice.

If you've been so helpful, you'd think he'd at least ask for your opinion, first!

ulysses5019 wrote:Where's my email?

This is it.

Once you've signed up, please forward this email to your friends, family, and coworkers to let them know about this special opportunity.

I use the terms "friends," "family," and "coworkers" loosely in y'all's case.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote: Barack Obama is about to make one of the most important decisions of this campaign -- choosing a running mate.

You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be the first to know his choice.

If you've been so helpful, you'd think he'd at least ask for your opinion, first!

Thank you, Marley! That's what I think too.


Actually I think I already told him -- Richardson.

Somebody told me last week with absolute certainty: Evan Bayh. I don't think so. I shoulda bet her. That would have guaranteed it, sorta like my NFL winners pool.

I have yet to receive a letter, email, or phone call.....

SportsFan68 wrote:Actually I think I already told him -- Richardson.

Somebody told me last week with absolute certainty: Evan Bayh. I don't think so. I shoulda bet her. That would have guaranteed it, sorta like my NFL winners pool.

Nolan Richardson? Ay caramba! I love him!!!1

Here's Fanny! wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:Actually I think I already told him -- Richardson.

Somebody told me last week with absolute certainty: Evan Bayh. I don't think so. I shoulda bet her. That would have guaranteed it, sorta like my NFL winners pool.

Nolan Richardson? Ay caramba! I love him!!!1

Close enough.

I don't know who Obama is going to pick as a running-mate, but will say McCain is going to pick Tom Ridge.

Bob Juch wrote:I don't know who Obama is going to pick as a running-mate, but will say McCain is going to pick Tom Ridge.

Only if he's an absolute idiot.

That's a sure way to keep the Christian Right at home. Especially since they aren't all that fired up for McCain anyway.

SportsFan68 wrote:David Plouffe E-mailed me (along with another couple million of his closest friends)!!

Dear (Sprots):

Barack Obama is about to make one of the most important decisions of this campaign -- choosing a running mate.

You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be the first to know his choice.

Sign up today to be the first to know:

http://my.barackobama.com/vp

You will receive an email the moment Barack makes his decision, or you can text VP to 62262 to receive a text message on your mobile phone.

Once you've signed up, please forward this email to your friends, family, and coworkers to let them know about this special opportunity.

No other campaign has done this before. You can be part of this important moment.

Be the first to know who Barack selects as his running mate.

Thanks,

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

I signed up, and I still bet that some of y'all know before I do.

This is hilarious. For reasons only clear north of the border. To begin with, is it the same David Plouffe who plays goal for the Summum Chiefs of Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu of the Ligue Nord-Américain du Hockey?


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Didn't think so.

"Plouffe" is a classic Québécois name, made famous in novel and TV by Roger Lémelin. "La Famille Plouffe" / "The Plouffe Family" was the most popular show in the fifties in Canada both in French and in English. Papa Plouffe was a bus driver in Quebec City.

I haven't heard it in the USA although I see Monsieur Plouffe hails from Delaware.

I was afraid of this. Plouffe's next E-mail, which arrived in the last hour or so, has this subject line: 2 million people like you

He was trying to get good E-mail addresses, and more of them, for fund-raising. I suspected it but went along anyway. At least he asked for $5, not $50.

SportsFan68 wrote:I was afraid of this. Plouffe's next E-mail, which arrived in the last hour or so, has this subject line: 2 million people like you

He was trying to get good E-mail addresses, and more of them, for fund-raising. I suspected it but went along anyway. At least he asked for $5, not $50.

You mean you're not going to be the first to know?

SportsFan68 wrote: Somebody told me last week with absolute certainty: Evan Bayh. I don't think so. I shoulda bet her. That would have guaranteed it, sorta like my NFL winners pool.

Now I wish I could remember who told me Bayh so positively. I'm now in a miserable lame $1 pool with two other people -- chance to win $2 plus my own dollar back. Julie's in for a buck and Clinton, Frank's in for Biden, and of course I took Richardson.

Any of you want to get in, send me your Dem pick and $5 before Plouffe sends out the official selection. Julie and Frank got the locals discount, y'all don't.


JUST KIDDING! DON'T SEND ME ANY MONEY!

That's all we need -- getting busted for an on-line gambling ring.

What? Nobody picked Hillary in your pool?

I'm seeing a lot of talk about Joe Biden. Huh.

minimetoo26 wrote:I'm seeing a lot of talk about Joe Biden. Huh.

Maybe Frank's in the chips!

He can take his $3 and buy an overpriced microbrew for one of us.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:What? Nobody picked Hillary in your pool?

Do you think Julie picked Bill???

It wouldn't surprise me if, in a race among the "front runners", Bayh, Kaine, and Biden, that "None of the above" wins.

starfish1113 wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:What? Nobody picked Hillary in your pool?

Do you think Julie picked Bill???

It wouldn't surprise me if, in a race among the "front runners," Bayh, Kaine, and Biden, that "None of the above" wins.

It wouldn't surprise me either. If Plouffe ever gets around to sending the promised E-mail, I'm willing to bet (not too much) that it will be a name I've never heard of.

starfish1113 wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:What? Nobody picked Hillary in your pool?

Do you think Julie picked Bill???

It wouldn't surprise me if, in a race among the "front runners", Bayh, Kaine, and Biden, that "None of the above" wins.

My people say Bayh or Biden.

Bob Juch wrote:

starfish1113 wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:What? Nobody picked Hillary in your pool?

Do you think Julie picked Bill???

It wouldn't surprise me if, in a race among the "front runners", Bayh, Kaine, and Biden, that "None of the above" wins.

My people say Bayh or Biden.

Your people????

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