{"id":131802,"date":"2016-10-15T16:59:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T22:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/john-scalzi-endorses-hillary-clinton-better-than-i-could.html"},"modified":"2016-10-15T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T22:59:34","slug":"john-scalzi-endorses-hillary-clinton-better-than-i-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/john-scalzi-endorses-hillary-clinton-better-than-i-could.html","title":{"rendered":"John Scalzi endorses Hillary Clinton (better than I could)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why the heck should you care who John Scalzi is or who he&#39;s voting for? <i>Per se,<\/i> for no reason. He&#39;s a great SF author, though that really, truly doesn&#39;t mean anything pro or con regarding his political acumen. <\/p>\n<p>But he articulates all the reasons I am going to be voting for Hillary Clinton, too, and far better than I could. So I feel like it&#39;s worth sharing that with you, if you are interested in nicely crafted summary of why I&#39;m voting as I will be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2016\/10\/12\/my-endorsement-for-president-2016-hillary-clinton\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/euPLwZAm4ikUcepb2PcY6lj26rIg7szWyqAGgEJ6d7f7TXFjmfOU16amtykdtdGa2xGgcBgNDIKQYixeUqkXmvps3-RA9pbRlYQTLMyTuA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2016\/10\/12\/my-endorsement-for-president-2016-hillary-clinton\/'>My Endorsement for President, 2016: Hillary Clinton &ndash; Whatever<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOriginal photo by Neverbutterfly, used under Creative Commons license. Click on picture to be taken to the original. Today is the beginning of early voting here in Ohio, which means that it is a good day for me to formally make the following announcement regarding my vote for President of the &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/C6JzxBDH89y'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the heck should you care who John Scalzi is or who he&#39;s voting for? Per se, for no reason. He&#39;s a great SF author, though that really, truly doesn&#39;t mean anything pro or con regarding his political acumen. But he articulates all the reasons I am going to be voting for Hillary Clinton, too, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/john-scalzi-endorses-hillary-clinton-better-than-i-could.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Scalzi endorses Hillary Clinton (better than I could)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130830,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/on-the-clinton-nomination.html","url_meta":{"origin":131802,"position":0},"title":"On the Clinton Nomination","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Jun-16 1:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"What +John Scalzi says. 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In fact, I may just hold onto a link to this article when someone asks me, \"So, what do you think about Hillary Clinton getting the nomination?\" It's all pretty much stuff I've said (or thought) to date, but said much\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11741,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/cheers_to_the_chief.html","url_meta":{"origin":131802,"position":1},"title":"Cheers to the Chief","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Feb-08 4:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Who do you want to have a beer with?\" As of this writing, voting is going to: 43% Barack Obama 20% John McCain 18% Ron Paul 10% Hillary Clinton 7%...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130804,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/voting-for-the-significantly-less-risky-of-two-risks.html","url_meta":{"origin":131802,"position":2},"title":"Voting for the Significantly Less Risky of Two Risks","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Jun-16 9:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"Urging people to not vote for Trump because Clinton is far less likely to blow the world up (militarily or economically) isn't a particularly edifying position, and it doesn't directly address a wide variety of progressive causes that I'd like to see advanced.But it has the advantage of a significant\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129094,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/john-scalzi-on-donald-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":131802,"position":3},"title":"John Scalzi on Donald Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Dec-15 5:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Executive Summary (in my own words) of his 8 Points:1. Trump is Trump, doing whatever it takes the keep the spotlight. Too bad about the dead planets left behind, Galactus must feed.2. That Trump, saying the stuff Trump has been saying, has been the GOP poll leader for months indicates\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50065,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/hillary-clinton-has-a-big-advantage-bill-oreilly-says-so.html","url_meta":{"origin":131802,"position":4},"title":"Hillary Clinton has a big advantage. 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