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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. def by jDeepbeep · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was under the impression that neither candidate has *defined* what they mean by NN. If either has defined it well and I've missed it, let me know. Until then, meh.

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  2. Obama by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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." My, you sure do like the spoils system, huh?

    Anyway, I'm voting for Obama - he doesn't believe in charging women to get rape exams; he is pro-choice; he is for net neutrality; he didn't pick his running mate based on tits and ovaries (And I don't mean McCain picked Palin because she has nice ones. I mean he picked her because she just HAS tits and ovaries); he doesn't support abstinence only education; his economic plan makes more sense to me.

    Also, all these people who are like "OMG his name is Barack Hussein Obama, he's a terrorist!" really should go read about a) the muslim religion b) why he has that name.

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    1. Re:Obama by Hyppy · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Uhm... You pay for every other part of a police investigation. Why punish a woman who has been raped?

    2. Re:Obama by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 4, Interesting

      This country was *founded* by people who could be characterized as terrorists and radicals. Really, I have no problem with radicals. The terrorism thing, yeah, I do have a bit of a problem with the guy in question - but I don't believe in guilt by association. That's like saying because I hang out with a guy who was thought to be a serial killer, I must be bad...

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  3. It's Exposure to One Side that Causes Me to Vote by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I live in Virginia in the Washington D.C. metro area. I've been exposed to avid fans from both sides and have decided I won't be voting for McCain. Why? Read the fifth paragraph down in this article to get an idea of what one sometimes has to deal with. And all I need to do is peruse factcheck.org to see who's lying about what.

    Call me stupid & naive for desiring a non-manipulative president but I've been nonplussed with the McCain campaign (and Fox News for that matter). Both candidates twisted each others words but I haven't been exposed to many negative ads against McCain. I wish I didn't have to vote for either of them, we'll still be at war four years from now regardless of who wins--it's probably just a matter of how many countries we'll be at war with.

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  4. Re:Marty Chalfie vote also for Obama by bbhack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Subject says it all. Looks like smart people are going for Obama, shocking.

    This time, it's not about being "for" anything. It's completely sufficient to be "against".

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