"Rosa sat so Martin could walk Martin walked so Barack could run Barack is running so our children can fly."
That 86-letter text message is being forwarded from cellphone to cellphone. It began among African Americans then went viral, posted in various blogs. Exactly when it was first sent, who sent it and how many times it has been forwarded, we don't know.
Another unknown, and a hot topic among the political digiterati: How many cellphone numbers, through its nearly 18-month-old text messaging program, are in Sen. Barack Obama's database?
Scott Goodstein, the text guru who runs the program, declines to say. Same goes for his boss, Joe Rospars, who oversees Triple O, Obama's online operation. But since the campaign has been tireless in collecting their supporters' cell numbers -- they introduced Sen. Joe Biden as Obama's vice presidential choice by text -- many guess that it's in the millions.
Read more from the Washington Post.
Comments