Let’s face it, it’s easy to attract media attention, especially if you’re a politician, a celebrity or a criminal. It’s not easy, however, to distract the media, mostly because they’re EVERYWHERE. It’s especially difficult to distract them when there are two big international events to pay attention to, the Olympics AND war between Russia and Georgia.
And yet Obama has done it, very subtly so, but he’s done it with his announcement that he’ll notify everyone via email or text message who he picks for VP. Lord knows I don’t sit and check the Olympics medal count every two seconds at work but you can now bet I’m going to be checking my cell phone (very discreetly, of course). This little tactic, though not major, leaves speculation and anticipation on the tip of everyone’s tongue now until it actually happens. Is that not brilliant or what?
Contrast that to McCain. When it came to throwing his VP tactics around, the only thing he had to distract the media from was Obama’s World Tour, his opponent’s World Tour. And what does he do? He uses the oldest tactic in the book and throws a fake–or has one of his tops aides do it.
Hmm, unprecedented text message announcement or a political fake older than the Duke of Wellington?
In other news, the Dollar has once again dipped against the Euro, falling to about 1.49 USD/EURO. Let’s just hope it can stay that for ohhhhh, another four months?
