Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama

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.

Does this actually work?

[Blimey85]

Are there people who cast their vote based on crap like this? One one hand it's cool to know why someone is supporting someone, so this is somewhat different than the usual "I support Joe" stuff we see plastered all over. I'm tired of all the signs everywhere showing me who the sign owner is supporting. You drive down the street and see signs for every candidate and it does absolutely nothing to further any particular candidate. It serves only as an eyesore. This is why I don't plaster my car with bumper stickers supporting anyone or anything. I live several sports teams but I don't need to announce that to the world on my bumper. In this race I once again can't stand either candidate (the last candidate I really supported in a presidential race was Reagan) and just wish we could get this over so the bloody signs will get taken down.

...credited with co-founding...

[Anonymous Coward]

From someone who co-founded the Internet with Al Gore, who else would you expect him to endorse?

Re:Pundit

[Bicx]

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

Florida voter:

[philspear]

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

I'm waiting too ...

[richg74]

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.

WHY SETTLE FOR THE LESSER EVIL?

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Vote for Chthulu!!!

Re:Not like it matters much ...

[Anonymous Coward]

This election is going to come down to what it always does, who has: 'who's the candidate I can see having a beer with'

Not this time. This time it's more like 'who's the candidate I can see saving my job so I can still afford beer'

Re:Pundit

[iminplaya]

JaRule is likely endorsing whoever promises to legalize marijuana.

Then I'm endorsing JaRule.

Re:Not like it matters much ...

[SoundGuyNoise]

John McCain is probably a mean drunk.

Re:WHY SETTLE FOR THE LESSER EVIL?

[Anonymous Coward]

Vote for Chthulu!!!

You misspelled the name of the great Cthulhu! You will be eaten first!

Re:Pundit

[VeNoM0619]

Don't look at me... I voted for Kudos.

Re:Pundit

[Genjurosan]

It's done me just fine. I've worked myself out of debt and am a better situation than I was 8 years ago.

Re:Obama

[InvisblePinkUnicorn]

It reminds me of my girlfriend's niece who's 4 years old, talking about how great life is in Ponyland, where "nobody ever has to work!" I started joking that Ponyland is unsustainable, and her niece changed it so that "everyone has to work all the time in Ponyland."

Re:Not like it matters much ...

[dwarg]

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?

Re:Obama

[Chris Burke]

And the head of McCain's transition team used to lobby for Saddam Hussien. Playing the "associations" game is asinine, because there isn't a person on this planet that can't be connected to an unsavory person in one or two steps.

That's right! And I wish people would stop judging me harshly merely because I can be connected to an unsavory person in zero steps!

Re:Pundit

[blhack]

The great unwashed masses hardly vote rationally. Witness the "P.U.M.A"s who were for Clinton but now plan to vote McCain (a diametric opposite) simply because Clinton losing hurt their feelings.

Or the Ron Paul supporters who are now voting for Obama. /was a Ron Paul supporter //voting for McCain ///you guys can all kiss my ass, have fun voting for your cheerleader. This is a goddamned presidential election, not a popularity contest. You idiots remind me class president elections in high school.

Re:Obama

[Artifakt]

I've never been the victim of a murder, and I don't see why my taxes should go to support those lazy people who couldn't dodge better. Let them get jobs and pay the costs of prosecuting their murderers themselves.

(For the humor impaired, the above post is tongue in cheek, dammit!!!, and get off my lawn)

Re:Scientists are political animals, science isn't

[dandroid6000]

Archaeology [Science?] is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.

-Indiana Jones

Re:Marty Chalfie vote also for Obama

[VJ42]

INCOME REDISTRIBUTION is STEALING,

Fine. You stop paying taxes, and we'll stop you using anything that they've paid for. You can say goodbye to using the roads, police force and firefighters to start with, you won't be able to call for help from anyone else either, both the Internet and telephone system were either started up by government funds, or at the very least have had significant government investment. Hell I'll pay for your one way ticket to Somalia, there's no taxes or laws there. It should be paradise for you.