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Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
Petey_Alchemist writes "With Super Tuesday coming up and the political field somewhat winnowed down, the process of picking the nominees for the next American President is well underway. At the same time, the Internet is bustling through a period of legal questions like Copyright infringement, net neutrality, wireless spectrum, content filtering, broadband deployment. All of these are just a few of the host of issues that the next President will be pressured to weigh in on during his or her tenure. Who do you think would be the best (or worst) candidate on Internet issues?"
No, it's because 10% of the country says he has no chance, 10% says he's a batshit crazy racist loon, and 70% say, "Who's Ron Paul?" If the 70% find out, most will join the "batshit crazy loon" group, which is why the "he has no chance" group is exactly right. It's long past time for people to get over the infatuation with Paul.
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Which political candidate is best for advancing technology? The views of the Republican candidates are closest to supporting the TFM. So, one of them is the best advocate for technology.
However, I do not want to live in a TFM and to treat people like garbage. Most people probably do not want to live in the society described by Charles Dickens in _A_Christmas_Carol_.
A better question is a broader question: "Which candidate is best for advancing our nation?" The answer is Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama is a racially divisive person. In the caucus in Nevada, African-American voters selected him on the sole basis of his skin color.
Now, look at the voting pattern of Hispanics. None of the remaining Democratic political candidates is Hispanic, so the Hispanic voters did not select the candidate on the basis of skin color. They looked at non-racial qualities like experience and proposed policies. Many Hispanics voted for Obama, but they still preferred Clinton.
Note that the voting pattern of Whites resembles that of Hispanics. Many Whites voted for Obama, but they still preferred Clinton. In other words, neither Whites nor Hispanics are voting on the basis of skin color.
In both the Nevada caucus and the South-Carolina primary, 80% (or more) of African-American voters selected Obama. Most African-American voters use only skin-color to pick the candidate. They ignore the non-African-American candidates.
Obama is a very divisive candidate and encourages voting on the basis of skin color.
Therefore, Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to lead our nation.
No. Ron Paul has no chance because he is a NAZI-FASCIST using a libertarian speech to push his goals through stupid illiterate people that are not able to understand politics.
Thanks God America is throwing Paul on the place he, and all his followers, belong: the trash bin of history..
Seems to need some hypothetical translation:
* Ensure an open Internet.
This means that universities, ISPs and companies have to censor the access to the Internet so that it can be ensured that we still can have an open Internet.
* Create a transparent and connected democracy.
The government should have total access to all your Internet activities.
* Encourage a modern communications infrastructure.
The companies who bribe me and my friends should get money from the government.
* Employ technology to solve our nation's most pressing problems.
Spend government funding on DRM and Internet filtering.
* Improve America's competitiveness.
Strike down hard on filesharing and make it easier to get patents so that an even bigger part of USA can focus on being in court.
So... I'm not impressed as that can mean anything.