The much awaited announcement of Senator Barack Obama’s choice for running mate and Vice President of the United States of America (hopefully) was supposed to come out this morning by way of text message, to be followed by an official announcement today, 23 August. But somebody somewhere let the cat out of the bag late last night.
My wife and I were watching ABC here in Clifton, Colorado last night, having decided to watch a rerun of David Letterman rather than doze off watching the Olympics. Why I have never been that interested in the age old athletic trials is fodder for another story (and no, I’m not communist). But lo and behold, right in the middle of watching Letterman last night, we were treated to a special surprise.
I had noticed before hand that the local ABC affiliate was having issues with their commercial reels because not a single one was playing through to completion. We were getting a string of commercials that would play roughly halfway through before they would be cut off by the following ad. But right there in the midst of all of that technical difficulty came an early announcement that Joe Biden would be Obama’s nominee!
Perhaps I should have published this last night so that people wouldn’t doubt me, or at least I should have called my friend in Denver to let him know that I already knew who the VP nominee would be. But, in the end the matter is neither here nor there. I do hope that nobody at our local ABC affiliate will lose their job over the incident though.
Thus far I’ve seen nothing mentioned of the faux pas in our local media, so I’m guessing that either my wife and I were the only ones in this little valley who were watching Letterman last night, or nobody else thought that the early slip was news worthy. Either way, nobody seems to be disappointed by the choice of Biden, though I have to admit that I was caught unawares. He wasn’t on any of the lists that I remember reading as potential VP candidates. Truth be told, I really don’t know enough about the man to make a comment. I think I’ll go do some research on the man now.
Thanks!
JMK
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