More from Obama’s creepy cult of personality:
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched an iPhone application on Thursday that turns the vaunted device into a political recruiting tool.
The most notable feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly,” according to the software.
On my phone, the application ranked contacts in Colorado, Michigan, and New Mexico at the top; at the bottom was a friend whose cell phone has a Texas number, though she actually lives in California.
The application anonymously reports back the number of calls made this way: “Your privacy is important: no personal data or contacts will be uploaded or stored. Only the total number of calls you make is uploaded anonymously.”
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A “get involved” feature uses the phone’s GPS-based location sensing to find the nearest Obama campaign headquarters, and “local events” likewise pulls up a list of activities sorted by proximity.
A “media” section provides links to video and photos, but beware: YouTube showed errors following some of the links. Perhaps the newer videos hadn’t been prepared for iPhone display yet.
The application also shows Obama statements to the news media and a guide to Obama’s positions on various issues.
The next step? Have an Obama associate screen your calls, debate your friends, and even pay your bills for you right online — with just a small portion of each transaction going to the Obama campaign’s efforts to save the planet. For you.
The application shows how many calls have been made nationwide and how many you made. Those statistics are the kind that can motivate people — they can feel like they’re part of something bigger. That may sound a bit silly as a motivational tool, but consider that Smule’s Sonic Lighter application for the iPhone is popular, despite the fact that it costs 99 cents more than its free competition, likely because people can see where else on the globe people are using it and because the longer you run the application, the bigger your own spot on the map becomes. It’s a kind of competition.
Precisely. And what can be more gratifying that having the biggest, most frequently stretched O-hole on the entire block?
Side note: as Obama targets the geek market, one wonders if the McCain campaign will simply counter by having Governor Palin deliver stump speeches in battleground states dressed like Princess Laia in Return of the Jedi.
Talk about your nerd dilemma…!
(h/t Bob Reed)
If some hipster asshole had my telephone number, and used it to harass me with Obama propaganda because I live in a battleground state, I would drive to his non-battleground state and turn his iPhone into the first Apple iAnalSuppository.
I’d prefer her as Xena, Amazon princess but that’s just me.
Please have these mental midgets call people to convince them.
Their smug shrillness will just turn more to McCain.
McCain could start wearing an eye patch.
Related.
Nude Erection!
McCain must recruit Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds to counter this geek insurgency forthwith.
Let’s see…It sends data back to the O!-stag on how many arm twisting calls you make…
And, it makes sure that you’re kept current on all of his talking points…Hmmm, a handy feature when your cult leader hold such nuanced points of view and has positions on issues that are ever evolving…
When you need some reassurance, you can even look at the latest video of O! yukking it up with his subjects in the MSM…
Oh, and if you’re too busy during the day, I’m sure it can come on, automatically, while you’re asleep and help you absorb the dear leaders message by osmosis…
But, I wonder if it can direct you to the nearest homeless shelter, so that you can do some vote mining; y’know, find people willing to vote in their ecenomic interest..?
It should just call the radio stations for you and play the talking points. That way, you can get back to the work Barack demands that you do and stop playing on the phone, dammit
Oh that will be just so fun! Imagine: You are sitting at home and your phone rings. “Why aren’t you at the rally? Why are you watching NASCAR? You really should go to the rally.”
Does it come with an alarm clock so that I won’t oversleep and miss the group calesthenics followed by the self-criticism session?
Calisthenics.
sheesh.
– Ok, so then on election day you have this giant worldwide “connectivity” thing going on globally. The spot covers every contenent from Moscow to Sri Lanka.
– Then what are all the meat heads and every social misfit in the world going to do? Issue forth a super wet humongous fart?
– So much for the methane levels that are killing the Gia. Children playing with toys, and too busy to actually, you know, ewwwww – vote.
Uhm, it’s Princess “Leia” not “Laia”…
BTW, really glad to have you back to regular posting… I tried keeping up while you were out, but it just wasn’t the same.
Well, give him points for efficiency. I don’t think he can afford enough vans and compounds to make sleep deprivation and repetitive chant indoctrination work. That takes too much work and if we know one thing about the O!Team they are about the Angry than they are about the Worky.
How much you want to bet that a lot of these folks signing up for the software have written angry letters to editors complaining about RFID chipping by retailers, or privacy issues involved in the GWOT? It is to laugh.
Not even with the Soros and Chinese money…
Coming soon! Obama’s Little Red Organizer! Mandatory for all cell phones, PDAs, and laptops!
Related video. Talk about creepiness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy09UpI60F8