If you're a liberal who isn't part of the Hillary cult then it's very hard to discern why she's running for the presidency except for the sake of becoming president. Hillary Clinton stands for Hillary Clinton. If you love her, that's reason enough to vote for her. If you're ambivalent, then it's not enough.
Why Joe Biden should run (Opinion) - CNN.com
8 years
The vice president might not regard this encouragement as enough reason to jump in, however. He may be emotionally exhausted; he may regard his two previous defeats as a sign that he doesn't have the right stuff. Or, as RealClearPolitics points out, he might look at Hillary Clinton's 50-point lead in the polls and judge that it's too high a mountain to climb.
Why Joe Biden should run (Opinion) - CNN.com
8 years
...rwise. In fact, he’s worried about what might happen when such systems begin to eclipse humans in all intellectual domains, and even had this to say when questioned about the possibility by Edge.org, “The right response seems to be to change the goals of the field itself; instead of pure intelligence, we need to build intelligence that is provably aligned with human values.”
Russell, Bostrom and the Risk of AI — Medium
8 years
...hio that includes Cleveland. In both 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama got nearly 70 percent of its votes; in the latter of those contests, he trailed Mitt Romney by about 90,000 votes outside of Cuyahoga, but his advantage of roughly 255,000 votes inside the county made up for that, putting Ohio in his win column.
nytimes.com
8 years
..., be a more potent influence on policy than Obama himself. The 52-year-old funnyman is widely credited with changing how the government treated military veterans and Sept. 11 first responders and for canceling a hyper-partisan CNN talk show. His broadsides against President George W. Bush’s Iraq war and a series of Obama missteps had a searing effect on how Americans thought about Washington.
Jon Stewart’s secret White House visits
8 years
..., be a more potent influence on policy than Obama himself. The 52-year-old funnyman is widely credited with changing how the government treated military veterans and Sept. 11 first responders and for canceling a hyper-partisan CNN talk show. His broadsides against President George W. Bush’s Iraq war and a series of Obama missteps had a searing effect on how Americans thought about Washington.
Jon Stewart’s secret White House visits
8 years
...ween now and next summer proving her ideological purity in an intraparty fight, like Mitt Romney in 2012 — rather than focusing on her differences with the conservative she will face in the election. But neither an analysis of the current political situation nor the history of presidential races supports this.
Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie - Barney Frank - POLITICO Magazine
8 years
Decades ago, Sanders made a principled choice to play a valuable part in our politics — the outsider within the system. He defied the uniquely American aversion to the word “socialism.” We are, after all, the only Western democracy in which no self-identified socialist party has ever played a significant governmental role. While voting with the Democrats to organize first the House and then the Senate, he made clear he did so as a regrettable necessity, not a preference, and cited his nonmembership in the party as an i...
Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie - Barney Frank - POLITICO Magazine
8 years
... Kerry had not been spooked into believing that no one who voted no would have the national security merit badge required to win the presidency, I regard liberal senators’ support for the Iraq War as a response to a given fraught political situation rather than an indication of their basic policy stance — like Obama’s off-again, on-again support for same-sex marriage. (Yes, I am saying that in deciding whether or not to support a candidate with whom I have disagreed on a fundamental issue, I am more...
Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie - Barney Frank - POLITICO Magazine
8 years
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