{"id":786,"date":"2008-01-30T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/30\/techcrunch-endorses-obama-and-mccain\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T00:14:07","slug":"techcrunch-endorses-obama-and-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/30\/techcrunch-endorses-obama-and-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"TechCrunch endorses Obama and McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/01\/29\/the-techcrunch-tech-president-endorsements-barack-obama-and-john-mccain\/\">a well written and thoughtful endorsement<\/a> that (not surprisingly) focuses on tech related issues, they&#8217;ve gone for Obama and McCain (with a strong preference for Obama between the two).<\/p>\n<p>Obviously technical issues aren&#8217;t the only important issues facing the country, and silicon valley tech issues aren&#8217;t necessarily always the same as general science issues.  Nothing was said about the war in Iraq, for example, and while they wisely include things things like math and science education in their focus issues, there&#8217;s no mention of the continuing struggle over the stain of creationism in that education.<\/p>\n<p>Not perfect, but a thoughtful summary of positions on an important set of issues.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/education\/\" title=\"Education\">Education<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/elections\/\" title=\"elections\">elections<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/politics\/\" title=\"Politics\">Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/president\/\" title=\"president\">president<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/science\/\" title=\"Science\">Science<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/technology\/\" title=\"technology\">technology<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/10\/we-have-to-help-them-understand-science-matters\/\" title=\"We have to help them understand:  Science matters! (10 Jan 08)\">We have to help them understand:  Science matters!<\/a> (1)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/you-have-to-either-laugh-or-cry-and-ill-help-you-do-both\/\" title=\"You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both) (11 Sep 08)\">You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both)<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a well written and thoughtful endorsement that (not surprisingly) focuses on tech related issues, they&#8217;ve gone for Obama and McCain (with a strong preference for Obama between the two). Obviously technical issues aren&#8217;t the only important issues facing the country, and silicon valley tech issues aren&#8217;t necessarily always the same as general science issues. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/30\/techcrunch-endorses-obama-and-mccain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TechCrunch endorses Obama and McCain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,1,13],"tags":[868,204,865,205,866,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-cG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":770,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/10\/we-have-to-help-them-understand-science-matters\/","url_meta":{"origin":786,"position":0},"title":"We have to help them understand:  Science matters!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"10 Jan 08","format":false,"excerpt":"I highly recommend \"Science, delayed\" over on Science- Progress.org. 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