{"id":16,"date":"2008-10-29T07:28:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevware.wordpress.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2011-03-26T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T07:24:17","slug":"geek-politics-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/geek-politics-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Politics, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well not really geek politics, but I liked the sound of that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been way too long since my last update.\u00a0 I may have mentioned b4 that work was kicking my butt&#8230; well it&#8217;s still kicking!<\/p>\n<p>However I do think it&#8217;s important to weigh in on the upcoming election.\u00a0 First:\u00a0 VOTE NO ON PROP 8 (California voters).\u00a0 Our state constitution, for the first time ever, would be amended to deny rights to a group of people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s never happened before, and shouldn&#8217;t be happening now.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, people should be able to love, marry, and protect those they love. And marriage between &#8220;a man and a woman&#8221; isn&#8217;t the only way they should be accomplished.\u00a0 Take a look at this video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UiYmjDzSg3o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UiYmjDzSg3o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also, I will be voting for Barack Obama.\u00a0 And not just because he is the Democratic candidate, nor because he is a mixed race African-American (I am pretty much a lifelong Democrat and also African-American).\u00a0 In fact I was an avid Hillary supporter.\u00a0 But that was not meant to be.\u00a0 But even if I had wanted to vote for McCain, the choice of &#8220;dumbass&#8221; Sarah Palin for VP is enough to guarantee that I would never vote for her to be that close to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>As for McCain, he has become about as much of a curmudgeon as he could possibly become&#8230; and will say, do, or attack Obama in any way he can to get to the White House.\u00a0 Maybe if he has spent as much time having a vision for the country as he did talking about &#8220;Joe the fake plumber&#8221;, he&#8217;d be in better shape now!\u00a0 Take a look at the article link on Palin, and the video of Muslim McCain supporters (yeah kinda like gay Republicans) confronting anti-Muslim McCain supporters:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cook5656.newsvine.com\/_news\/2008\/10\/22\/2029196-palin-abuse-of-office-is-obvious-trend-along-with-abuse-of-truth\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cook5656.newsvine.com\/_news\/2008\/10\/22\/2029196-palin-abuse-of-office-is-obvious-trend-along-with-abuse-of-truth<\/a><br \/>\n(Palin article)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid1417423198\/bctid1866657225\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/link\/bcpid1417423198\/bctid1866657225<\/a><br \/>\n(Muslim McCain supporters video)<\/p>\n<p>But honestly, the most important thing is to just go out and vote.\u00a0 People died so I would have the right to vote, so I appreciate and exercise that right everytime I can.\u00a0 So please let your voice be heard next Tuesday.\u00a0 And if it&#8217;s for a NO on Prop 8\/YES for Barack Obama, so much the better! \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nGood night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well not really geek politics, but I liked the sound of that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been way too long since my last update.\u00a0 I may have mentioned b4 that work was kicking my butt&#8230; well it&#8217;s still kicking! However I do think it&#8217;s important to weigh in on the upcoming election.\u00a0 First:\u00a0 VOTE NO ON PROP 8 &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/geek-politics-2008\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-16","6":"format-standard","7":"category-national-politics","8":"category-political-stuff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}