Former Threadless CTO Harper Reed to Work for Obama 2012

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21 points·raldi··5 comments

Whatever happened to that actor who quit House to run off and help Obama?

Oh okay, he left. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal_Penn#Political_interests

Obama's support from the left will basically be from lack of any other choice. I liked him a lot better when he was actually a Democrat, Senator Obama would be freaking out at President Obama. Less transparency than ever, more lobbyists than ever, new wars, expanded warrantless surveillance, TSA in bus and train stations, endless Patriot Act renewal, etc.

I am so not looking forward to an election year news cycle, the media is bad enough most days but wow it's going to get ugly.

This article is not intellectually stimulating and not valuable for the health of the community.

Believe it or not, there are a lot of 1) non-Americans and 2) non-Democrats on Hacker News. Maybe we can skip the Obama-hype this time around the election cycle. Four years of national transformation and transcendence is enough.

You're painting this as a "Obama eats a ham sandwich" story, but I think there's a big-picture trend that you're missing.

The news is of interest to HN because it's a sign of how the Internet and social media continues to have an ever-rising impact on major world politics. To put it another way, are Twitter and Facebook and Reddit just procrastination engines, or might they be important, world-changing tools? Stories like this help answer that question.

Harper was actually CTO at Threadless (skinnyCorp), but this (and he) is awesome in any case.

Yeah, my original headline didn't say that, but it looks like someone edited it.

Edit: And now they've edited it again. I wish HN's anonymous headline editors would post a comment when they do that, so my references to the headline don't look weird.

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