{"id":3095,"date":"2008-10-29T19:20:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T19:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/29\/unsurprising-endorsements\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T19:20:17","slug":"unsurprising-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/29\/unsurprising-endorsements\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsurprising Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that I&#8217;m sure will surprise, oh, three or four people, the editors of <cite>Seed<\/cite> have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2008\/10\/obama_for_president.php\">officially endorsed Barack Obama for president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt any regular reader of this blog will be surprised to hear that I agree with their endorsement. In fact, I&#8217;m on record as saying that I will not vote for any Republican for any office at any level, so long as the national party is run by the current gang of autocrats, theocrats, and con men. The McCain campaign has not given me any reason to change this stance, so I&#8217;ll be voting for Obama, and everybody else on the Democratic line.<\/p>\n<p>I might be open to voting for Democrats under the Working Families Party ticket, as <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/010739.html#010739\">described on Making Light<\/a>; I&#8217;m not sure of the merits of this for the local races. People with actual information on the Working Families Party are welcome to share it in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that I&#8217;m sure will surprise, oh, three or four people, the editors of Seed have officially endorsed Barack Obama for president. I doubt any regular reader of this blog will be surprised to hear that I agree with their endorsement. In fact, I&#8217;m on record as saying that I will not vote&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/29\/unsurprising-endorsements\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unsurprising Endorsements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}