TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rand Paul ? The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan spending bill Friday morning  but not before the federal government shut down when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delayed the vote past midnight to complain about the budget deficit. It was the second government shutdown in less than three weeks.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Feb. 8 spoke on the Senate floor against a bipartisan budget deal and delayed a vote on the measure. (U.S. Senate)
Then  as an expected vote approached in the Senate   Paul  began to throw up roadblocks  demanding a vote on  his  amendment that would demonstrate how the two-year budget deal breaks past pledges to rein in federal spending.
GOP leaders refused to allow  him  to offer the amendment  arguing that if  Paul  got an amendment vote  many other senators might want one  too.  Paul   in turn  refused to allow the vote to go forward  making use of Senate rules that allow individual senators to slow down proceedings that require the consent of all.
“I can’t in all good honesty  in all good faith  just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits ”  Paul  said on the Senate floor as evening pushed into night.
 Paul  objected after a visibly irritated McConnell tried to move to a vote. Then  Paul  launched into a lengthy floor speech deriding bipartisan complicity on deficit spending while the country goes “on and on and on  finding new wars to fight that make no sense.” The senator direly predicted a “day of reckoning ” possibly in the form of the collapse of the stock market.
As the hours ticked on   Paul  repeatedly refused to consent to allowing the vote to happen  as lawmakers and aides of both parties grew increasingly annoyed at  him . Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.)  leaving the floor after an unsuccessful attempt to curtail  Paul ’s standoff  called the gambit “grossly irresponsible” and said that leaders would not entertain  his  demand for a vote.
Senators of both parties were left fuming  with most of their ire directed toward  Paul .
“ He  has mastered the art of ticking off  his  colleagues ” said Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.).
“It’s a colossal waste of everybody’s time ” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). Of  Paul   Thune said  “He never gets a result.”
 Paul himself  made no apologies as  he  delivered one floor speech after another  casting  himself  as a lone defender of fiscal austerity  despite having voted in December for a tax bill that added at least $1 trillion to the debt.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Trump Be Trump ? Breitbart News has been provided with an exclusive preview of and excerpt from the new book   Let  Trump  Be  Trump   by Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie  published by Center Street and available on December 5  2017.
From Let  Trump  Be Trump:
âI want you to know I have the greatest air force in the world â  Trump  began  unprompted  in Coreyâs first meeting with the candidate. âIâve got a 757  Iâve got a Citation X. And Iâve got three helicopters.â Corey sat there with a half smile on his face  not knowing quite how to respond.
When  Donald Trump  listed the aircraft  he  had during Coreyâs job interview  Corey shrugged it off as a random boast. But  Trump  wasnât boasting.  He  was pointing out the military equipment  he  had for the war ahead. A candidate with a jet has a formidable advantage over rivals without one. A candidate with an air force was going to be tough to beat.
When you flew with  Trump   you flew first class times ten. Except  that is  when it came time to eat.
The first time Dave told his wife Susan that he was going to be on Trump Force One  she asked him to take some photos of what they served him to eat on the plane. She had read somewhere that  Mr. Trump  had a personal chef who traveled with  him . When dinner came on the flight  Dave pulled out his BlackBerry and snapped a picture of the bag of McDonaldâs hamburgers and unopened package of Oreo cookies and emailed it to Susan.
On Trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonaldâs  Kentucky Fried Chicken  pizza  and Diet Coke. There were also ancillary groups  including Vienna Fingers and the ubiquitous Oreo  before the boycott (after it was Hydrox). The reason the package of Oreos was unopened was because  Mr. Trump  would never eat from a previously opened package. If youâve seen the Seinfeld episode in which George double-dips  his  chip  you have a pretty good idea of the bossâs reasoning. Packages of cookies  along with small airliner-size bags of pretzels and potato chips  filled the planeâs cupboards. An army might march on its stomach  but Trumpâs team flew on junk food. And those snacks would have to sustain us during long flights and even longer days.
The candidate would hardly ever eat lunch and would eat dinner only after he finished the last event of the day. Weâd be in the jet or on the road from seven or eight a.m.  make however many scheduled stops we had  and after the last one  perhaps around nine p.m.   Mr. Trump  would clap  his  hands and say  âLetâs eat!â And the food needed to be hot and ready for  him . Some of the time  especially when  he  was pleased with  his  performance at a rally or event   he âd say  âDo you think I deserve a malted today? I think I deserve one.â  Trump   a city kid  grew up drinking malteds  so thatâs what he always called a milkshake. Whatever you want to call it  it better be there and it better still be thick.
When traveling in the air with the boss  you also learned pretty quickly to like Elton John.  Donald Trump  really likes Elton John. Anthony âthe Moochâ Scaramucci got in all sorts of hot waterâwhich is not at all an unfamiliar position for himâwhen he told an interviewer that Elton John would play at President Trumpâs inaugural. It had been wishful thinking on Moochâs part  probably because heâd been on the plane when the boss had âTiny Dancerâ or âRocket Manâ playing as loud as the concert-level speakers could bring it. Weâre telling you  when the boss cranks up Elton  you canât hear yourself think. The music is loud enough to rattle your brain.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Steven Michael Hulbert ? Tupelo police said  Steven Michael Hulbert  22  of Walls   allegedly fired multiple shots at a man in the west parking lot of the BancorpSouth Arena about 11:13 p.m. Friday. The man  who was shot in the chest  was released Saturday from North Mississippi Medical Center. His name was not released.
Multiple media outlets report  Hulbert  is being held in the Lee County jail on $100 000 bond. It was unknown if he's represented by an attorney.  Hulbert 's initial court appearance is Monday.
Tupelo Police were already on scene as part of security for Aldean's concert and responded to the shots fired call.  Hulbert  was arrested after police stopped  his  vehicle before it left the parking lot.
Witnesses said the shooting stemmed from an argument among a small group of men.  Hulbert  then pulled a pistol and fired four to six shots. Police said bullets hit the victim and struck multiple vehicles in the parking lot.

SOLUTION:
Neutral