When you win Oprah over, you're doing something right.
"Oprah is all in for Hillary."
"I really believe that is going to happen," Winfrey told Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday regarding Clinton's chances of becoming the first woman to win the presidency. "It's about time that we make that decision."
"Clinton's candidacy is a "seminal moment for women" regardless of one's political leanings, the longtime talk-show host and media mogul said at the premiere of the TV series "Greenleaf" set to air on her Oprah Winfrey Network."
"What this says is, there is no ceiling, that ceiling just went boom, you know," Winfrey said. "It says anything is possible when you can be leader of the free world."
"Donald Trump floated Winfrey's name as his vice president last June in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, only to tell Fox News' Sean Hannity that the remark was only a "joke" and that the vice presidency was "not for her."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/oprah-winfrey-endorses-clinton-224408#ixzz4BqgcMEPE
You know who also is not for Oprah? Donald Trump.
It seems to me that Oprah has real cache with the independents.
Larry King likes Trump and has interviewed him countless times. However, he's #WithHer too.
"Legendary television host Larry King said on Thursday he will likely vote for Hillary Clinton despite his long history with Donald Trump."
“He’s an old friend interviewed him maybe a hundred times, spent a lot of social time with him," King told SiriusXM's Pete Dominick, noting he had just talked to the presumptive Republican nominee last week. King, a former longtime host for CNN, now hosts talk shows on Hulu and RT.
"But some of his opinions have gone," King continued. "And while I like him and don't think he's racist, I think he's caught a tiger by the tail, he's running with it, and I don't agree with him on his stance on keeping people out of the country, building a wall ... being proud of his support from the NRA. I would not be proud."
King also said he knows Trump isn't anti-abortion, based off of what Trump told him ten years ago.
"I know Hillary well too. I’ll vote for Hillary, probably," King said when asked by the hosts.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/06/larry-king-ill-probably-vote-for-hillary-224457#ixzz4Bqh5mAJh
I will vote for Hillary, probably.
Bill Gates will also probably vote for Hillary.
Gates is just not sure Trump has studied up enough on vaccines.
"When it comes to which candidate is best prepared to tackle matters of public health, the choice is clear to Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. But he's willing to work with whoever wins in November."
"Gates, who along with his wife founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 to fight global poverty and disease, told STAT News in an interview published Friday that while his organization would "approach any administration with a positive open mind," he has more experience with both Hillary and Bill Clinton through the Clinton Foundation."
"As far as Donald Trump is concerned, Gates seemed unimpressed, though he never mentioned the real estate mogul by name."
"Asked if Trump understands public health issues, Gates gave a broad smile and remarked that "[t]here have been questions about vaccines in general where some of the candidates have shown that they’re not as up to date about vaccines in general, and that’s got to be a concern." During a debate last September, Trump appeared to link an increase in autism to childhood vaccines, a theory that has been debunked in scientific circles."
"Science in general, whether it’s GMOs or vaccines, there’s a lot of people out there who don’t give science the benefit of the doubt," Gates continued. "In terms of experience, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have more experience on global health."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bill-gates-clinton-trump-224476#ixzz4Bqhua2bC
Speaking of Gates, it's been observed Bernie is sort of like the Windows 95 of progressive politics.
"But the biggest reason that Mr. Sanders won’t shape the next progressive agenda stems from a little-noticed aspect of his campaign: His policy proposals were consistently out of step with the ideas that have been emerging from progressive think tanks like Demos or the Center for American Progress or championed by his own congressional colleagues."
"For example, many liberal Democrats would agree with Mr. Sanders, in theory, that single-payer health insurance could be fairer, more efficient and cheaper than our fragmented system. But the president and Congress made the decision in 2010 to build on the private insurance system, in the form of the Affordable Care Act, in part because single-payer wasn’t politically viable. A Democratic administration’s next moves will be to expand and strengthen the Affordable Care Act, not start over."
"Like many of Mr. Sanders’s policy proposals, single-payer is an all-or-nothing proposition that creates few openings for legislators who want to do something incremental that could lead to a bigger goal. Congressmen like Senator Kennedy or Representative Henry Waxman of California often put forward ambitious ideas, too, but with manageable steps to build a structure that could be expanded later or that could attract enough support to pass."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/opinion/campaign-stops/is-the-sanders-agenda-out-of-date.html
I think that's the best analogy with Windows 95. Everything with Bernie is all or nothing, his positions are always stand alones.
There's no room to negotiate and win over those who haven't made the conceptual leap to single payer or free college.
This is the mistake in rejecting incrementalism. Lawrence O'Donnell talked about an old Senator he knew telling a new kid that if you want to make change you have to look to effect the 30 year curve.
The idea that getting meaningful things done you believe in takes 30 years, is anathema to the Berner philosophy that everything must be done and done now.
Impatience may feel better, but is not the more effective for feeling better.
"Oprah is all in for Hillary."
"I really believe that is going to happen," Winfrey told Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday regarding Clinton's chances of becoming the first woman to win the presidency. "It's about time that we make that decision."
"Clinton's candidacy is a "seminal moment for women" regardless of one's political leanings, the longtime talk-show host and media mogul said at the premiere of the TV series "Greenleaf" set to air on her Oprah Winfrey Network."
"What this says is, there is no ceiling, that ceiling just went boom, you know," Winfrey said. "It says anything is possible when you can be leader of the free world."
"Donald Trump floated Winfrey's name as his vice president last June in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, only to tell Fox News' Sean Hannity that the remark was only a "joke" and that the vice presidency was "not for her."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/oprah-winfrey-endorses-clinton-224408#ixzz4BqgcMEPE
You know who also is not for Oprah? Donald Trump.
It seems to me that Oprah has real cache with the independents.
Larry King likes Trump and has interviewed him countless times. However, he's #WithHer too.
"Legendary television host Larry King said on Thursday he will likely vote for Hillary Clinton despite his long history with Donald Trump."
“He’s an old friend interviewed him maybe a hundred times, spent a lot of social time with him," King told SiriusXM's Pete Dominick, noting he had just talked to the presumptive Republican nominee last week. King, a former longtime host for CNN, now hosts talk shows on Hulu and RT.
"But some of his opinions have gone," King continued. "And while I like him and don't think he's racist, I think he's caught a tiger by the tail, he's running with it, and I don't agree with him on his stance on keeping people out of the country, building a wall ... being proud of his support from the NRA. I would not be proud."
King also said he knows Trump isn't anti-abortion, based off of what Trump told him ten years ago.
"I know Hillary well too. I’ll vote for Hillary, probably," King said when asked by the hosts.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/06/larry-king-ill-probably-vote-for-hillary-224457#ixzz4Bqh5mAJh
I will vote for Hillary, probably.
Bill Gates will also probably vote for Hillary.
Gates is just not sure Trump has studied up enough on vaccines.
"When it comes to which candidate is best prepared to tackle matters of public health, the choice is clear to Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. But he's willing to work with whoever wins in November."
"Gates, who along with his wife founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 to fight global poverty and disease, told STAT News in an interview published Friday that while his organization would "approach any administration with a positive open mind," he has more experience with both Hillary and Bill Clinton through the Clinton Foundation."
"As far as Donald Trump is concerned, Gates seemed unimpressed, though he never mentioned the real estate mogul by name."
"Asked if Trump understands public health issues, Gates gave a broad smile and remarked that "[t]here have been questions about vaccines in general where some of the candidates have shown that they’re not as up to date about vaccines in general, and that’s got to be a concern." During a debate last September, Trump appeared to link an increase in autism to childhood vaccines, a theory that has been debunked in scientific circles."
"Science in general, whether it’s GMOs or vaccines, there’s a lot of people out there who don’t give science the benefit of the doubt," Gates continued. "In terms of experience, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have more experience on global health."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bill-gates-clinton-trump-224476#ixzz4Bqhua2bC
Speaking of Gates, it's been observed Bernie is sort of like the Windows 95 of progressive politics.
"But the biggest reason that Mr. Sanders won’t shape the next progressive agenda stems from a little-noticed aspect of his campaign: His policy proposals were consistently out of step with the ideas that have been emerging from progressive think tanks like Demos or the Center for American Progress or championed by his own congressional colleagues."
"For example, many liberal Democrats would agree with Mr. Sanders, in theory, that single-payer health insurance could be fairer, more efficient and cheaper than our fragmented system. But the president and Congress made the decision in 2010 to build on the private insurance system, in the form of the Affordable Care Act, in part because single-payer wasn’t politically viable. A Democratic administration’s next moves will be to expand and strengthen the Affordable Care Act, not start over."
"Like many of Mr. Sanders’s policy proposals, single-payer is an all-or-nothing proposition that creates few openings for legislators who want to do something incremental that could lead to a bigger goal. Congressmen like Senator Kennedy or Representative Henry Waxman of California often put forward ambitious ideas, too, but with manageable steps to build a structure that could be expanded later or that could attract enough support to pass."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/opinion/campaign-stops/is-the-sanders-agenda-out-of-date.html
I think that's the best analogy with Windows 95. Everything with Bernie is all or nothing, his positions are always stand alones.
There's no room to negotiate and win over those who haven't made the conceptual leap to single payer or free college.
This is the mistake in rejecting incrementalism. Lawrence O'Donnell talked about an old Senator he knew telling a new kid that if you want to make change you have to look to effect the 30 year curve.
The idea that getting meaningful things done you believe in takes 30 years, is anathema to the Berner philosophy that everything must be done and done now.
Impatience may feel better, but is not the more effective for feeling better.
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