Not content to have a wildly popular Myspace and Facebook pages, Barack Obama is entering the cell phone game, with customized reggaton and techno ringtones. Seriously. Says MTV:
A newly launched mobile text-update service allows you to get the latest news on Obama on your cell phone, where you can also get Obama ringtones featuring techno and reggaetón beats under the candidate’s sound bites on health care and the Iraq war. Like most of the candidates, you can also catch up with Obama on his pages on Facebook, MySpace, PartyBuilder, YouTube, Flickr and Eventful, where you can download his tour schedule.
In addition, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has rolled out RSS feeds and Youtube spoofs. Doesn’t this all kind of remind you of when your parents try to get hip to new technology to feel cooler…and it doesn’t work?
[MTV]
Boo. These candidates are going TOO damn far. I’m not wasting my texts to get his tour schedule. What am I going to do with it? Follow his ass around the country? I’m sure Michelle Obama isn’t even doing all that.
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