OK, I'm trying to understand the strategery here.

Whip up a frenzy about the VP pick; double pinkie swear to tell your followers first via text message; announce the day you're going to do the big 'reveal' like some game show - and when the big day comes -

Delay the planned announcement by one day (it as planned for Thursday), in an attempt to cache in on your opponent's perceive gaffe; don't announce on your newly announced planned day (Friday); release the news to main stream media first;  send out the news in the middle of the night; and wake people up at 3 in the morning with a text message.

How is this a good idea?

First, you've missed your own deadline, twice.
Second, you've lied to your breathless new followers. It's the new young voters who are going to be looking for the text message.  But the announcement wasn't sent to them first, like promised - it was made to the traditional media.
Third, some people wake up at the sound of their phone receiving a text message in the middle of the night (myself included) and it better be an emergency (it was, the only time I got one).

This is not the excited fanfare we expected.  So I'm not touching the choice of candidate in this diary - I'm trying to understand who in their right mind thought any of this would be a GOOD way to do this announcement and end the speculation?  I'm trying to figure out how it could have been more of a letdown for those folks who may still have been excited to hear about it.  Seems to me, it couldn't have been handled worse.

No - that's not a reference to Obama as The One.

It's the new Obama One.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080721/ts_ alt_afp/usvoteobamaplane_080721121816

Yes - take a look at the new Obama campaign plane!  Complete with slogan painted on both sides and rising sun logo on the tail!  COOL!  Really!  Why wait to be president to get your own plane?  You can just spend your campaign war chest on a great set of new wheels - with wings!  No wonder public campaign financing is so passe.

An email came to me from Senator Dodd.  I'm someone who was so dismayed by yesterday's 'performance' by all senators on the senate floor that after the voting was over, I cut up my flag and hung it out.  My husband has asked me to leave it up for a few days.  Yes, we're upset at losing our 4th amendment rights.

So here's the email.

[This is my first entry at MyDD, since jumping off the shark of dailyKos.  Probably I'll be no more coherent here than I was there.]

If you're a politically concerned Democrat, such as myself, you receive in your non-work email many petitions to sign.  One of these recent petitions requests has sparked today's rant.