barack obama vice president

John McCain is still alive, people

August 27, 2008 - Another text from McCain. This one's a little less political, but no less urgent than the others...

Oh no- another McCain text

August 26, 2008 - John McCain's still trying to figure out that cell-phone of his. Here's the latest text from Maverick central...

Oh dear God, now McCain's texting us

August 25, 2008 - After a week of drunk texts, hungry texts, and just pla...

23/6 Video: CNN Loses it for Text Messages

August 25, 2008 - All of Friday morning, Barack Obama kept his VP announcement a secret from the media. With no actual news to report, the CNN team was running around like a Wolf Blitzer with his head cut off. Watch...

If they IM'd: Obama's (Former) VP Prospects

August 25, 2008 - After an ENTIRE FRIGGING WEEK of hovering over our blackberry screens, Barack Obama finally announced that his choice for Vice President would be (slightly pissed off drum-roll...) Sen. Joe Biden. This surely didn't sit well with the other prospects, but the whole process appears to have brought th...

WATCH: Obama, if you don't text us soon, CNN will go insane!

August 22, 2008 - All of Friday morning, Barack Obama kept his VP announcement a secret from the media. With no actual news to report, the CNN team was running around like a Wolf Blitzer with his head cut off. Watch...

Hey look, it's another frigging Obama text!

August 22, 2008 - Hey guess what! We got another text! Guess what else! He still won't tell us who the hell the veep is! Yay! Things actually might be unraveling over there... Um, no dude. We're pretty sure they're gon...

Our Veep Picks: Why Tim Kaine is already out of the running...

August 21, 2008 - "Obama-Kaine." Say it fast.* *Hint: It sounds like "Oba-McCain." Or even better, "ObombMcCain." And even if it doesn't call up the McCain association, some people will just hear "Obamacaine," which sounds like an eczema cream. On the other hand, Obama-Sebelius sounds like the name of a...

If they IM'd: Obama's VP Prospects

August 20, 2008 - The whole country is waiting breathlessly to find out who will be chosen to stand next to Barack Obama sometimes. If you think you're getting impatient, imagine how Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, and Kathleen Sebelius m...

Obama has thoroughly vetted his veep, and yes, it's as dirty as it sounds

August 20, 2008 - Barack Obama has settled on a running mate. The vetting process, which includes intense background checks of the candidate and his/her spouse, took longer than expected because Obama had to wait until Mrs. Clinton quit the race in June. Caroline Kennedy, along with Eric Holder, a former deputy attor...

Now he's drunk texting us

August 19, 2008 - Got another text from the Obama campaign. This is getting way out of hand. Jesus! What if our husband found this? NOT cool Obama campaign...

We finally got the text, and it's Obiden time!

August 19, 2008 - John King called it at 12:50 AM! And now, after being annoyed to the point of taking a hammer to our phones, we finally got the text we were waiting for. Obama picked Joe Biden. The text was still a little weird though...

Yet another Obama text

August 19, 2008 - This one just boggles the mind: Holy crap. Tomei? Really! Wow Obama campaign! Thanks for the really great celeb sighting that DOESN'T EVEN TELL US WHERE THE HELL YOU SAW HER! This is getting stalkery...

Another Obama text!

August 19, 2008 - So now he's saying he's going to announce his VP sometime this week, and we're all supposed to keep an eye out for the big text message to come through. We checked this morning and this is all we got...

Barack Obama won't stop texting us

August 18, 2008 - We were as excited as anybody to get text messages from Barack Obama about his VP choice. Now we're hearing that the strategy was...