A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States

Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by hugh on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @10:15AM (#354534)

Flagged. Far too much politics on the front page already, and while this may be by "A VC", the VC-ness of his perspective really doesn't really come through in the article.

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by jm4 on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @10:41AM (#354574)

Why is this getting modded down? He's got a legitimate gripe. This is just some random person's thoughts on the election results. Does the fact that he is a VC somehow make this on-topic for HN?

I could understand this being posted here if it was an opinion on how the election will affect startups and small businesses. Or maybe if, as a VC, the author could offer some kind of insight that might be relevant to HN readers. The article offers none of that.

There are plenty of election discussions on Slashdot, Reddit and Digg. I think it's perfectly understandable to want to keep these discussions off HN.

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by andreyf on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @11:06AM (#354590)

Fred Wilson isn't just "a VC", he is "The VC" in NYC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wilson_(financier)

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by jgrahamc on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @11:13AM (#354601)

No, he's a VC. He's done a great job of promoting himself and his company through helpful blogging and twittering but he's not the one and only authority that we need to hear from and especially not about US presidential politics.

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by andreyf on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @11:16AM (#354607)

but he's not the one and only authority that we need to hear from

He's certainly not the only authority (who said he was?). However, he certainly is one authority whose opinion I am interested in if the community so decides.

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by hugh on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @12:16PM (#354689)

Trouble is, there's hundreds or thousands of interesting people out there whose opinions on other matters would be interesting on this site. VCs, entrepreneurs, programmers, scientists, mathematicians, writers, et cetera. No doubt, every one of them has an opinion on politics. But I don't want to have to wade through them all.

What's Robert Scoble's opinion? What's Sergey Brin's opinion? What's Don Knuth's opinion? What's that xkcd guy's opinion? What's Paul Graham's opinion? What's that bald marketing guy whose name escapes me for the moment's opinion? What about Joel Spolsky? Or the auctomatic guys? Or the guy who wrote Python? Or the guy who wrote Rails? Or ... well, you get the idea.

I don't care about any of their opinions, and neither should you.

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by jgrahamc on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @11:18AM (#354612)

> He's certainly not the only authority (who said he was?).

You. You said he was "The VC".

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by andreyf on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @12:15PM (#354685)

Ah, I meant to say that he's the most important VC in NY, and so has more authority than just "a VC"... but these are just semantic details of a meta-argument, no?

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by biohacker42 on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @10:34AM (#354561)

I wish I could upmode you more. And I'm super happy Obama won.

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by andreyf on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @11:08AM (#354595)

Fred Wilson isn't just "A VC", he is the most important person in tech in NYC, according to Silicon Alley Insider:

http://www.alleyinsider.com/sa100/2008/fred-wilson

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by hugh on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @12:24PM (#354697)

Isn't being the most important VC in New York City a bit like being the most important fashion designer in Tulsa?

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by timcederman on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @02:58PM (#354880)

hugh, it seems like all you do is go around posting "flagged." to topics you don't feel belong to HN. Looking at your thread history is interesting.

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Re:A VC: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States by hugh on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @07:09PM (#355191)

Meh, only recently. Hopefully things will return to normal soon.

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