Thoughts on a four word meme - 'text swat to 20222'

[vvalkyri]

Fascinated.

By now you may have heard that you* can Text 'SWAT' to 20222 to donate $5 to humanitarian aid efforts in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

I heard about it on NPR this morning, and have since looked up Secretary Clinton's remarks at yesterday's press conference**. I'm happily floored by the use of technology:The United States is also

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[vvalkyri]

Ah, but a year later - was this past May 10.

I particularly liked the bit about keeping Biden out of trouble, and 'I'll be learning to go off teleprompter, and biden will be learning to stay on teleprompter" or something along those lines.

[vvalkyri]

I've only seen the Obama clip. I think it was the bit about partners and Iowa that would have made me splorfle coffee, but I was at the time doing some of my PT exercises, so just paused to stop laughing.