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Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the time-to-play-that-game dept.

SEAActionFund writes "Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist who also happens to be credited with co-founding the Internet, submitted a video to our AVoteforScience YouTube challenge. In it he discusses the importance of net neutrality and endorses Barack Obama specifically because he supports net neutrality (John McCain does not.) The AVoteForScience challenge calls upon scientists to upload videos to YouTube explaining who they are voting for and why. The first two videos were by Cerf and the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Marty Chalfie. Any Slashdotters game for explaining who they are voting for and why?" Still waiting for one of the campaigns to ask for my endorsement, which is totally available to whichever campaign offers me the better cabinet seat.

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  1. Re:Pundit by Bicx · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's like asking Al Gore how he would build the internet. Oh wait...

  2. Florida voter: by philspear · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really liked the last 8 years of Bush rule, so I'm going to vote for Nader again.

  3. I'm waiting too ... by richg74 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Still waiting for one of the campaigns to ask for my endorsement, which is totally available to whichever campaign offers me the better cabinet seat.

    So am I. I mean, Sarah Palin claims to understand foreign policy because she can see Russia from Alaska. I've actually lived in a couple of other countries -- even one where (gasp!) they don't speak English. So I certainly should be Secretary of State -- or Ambassador to the UN, at the very least.

    Or maybe I can be Secretary of Agriculture. After all, I know how to ride a horse, and I milked a cow once.

  4. WHY SETTLE FOR THE LESSER EVIL? by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 3, Funny

    Vote for Chthulu!!!

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  5. Re:Not like it matters much ... by SoundGuyNoise · · Score: 5, Funny

    John McCain is probably a mean drunk.

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  6. Re:Not like it matters much ... by dwarg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet Obama is hilarious when he's drunk. People that speak very well sober are really funny when they start slurring their speech and their long sentences start breaking down as their train of thought wanders.

    Now I really want to get Obama drunk... and then take him behind a middle school, and get him pregnant...

    Did I just say that out loud?