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Steve Jobs proposes Al Gore for president
Mac World UK ^ | May 23, 2007 | Jonny Evans, Macworld

Posted on 05/23/2007 3:08:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Apple board member and former US vice president Al Gore would win the presidency if he ran for election, says Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

"If he ran, there's no question in my mind that he would be elected," Jobs told Time Magazine. "But I think there's a question in his mind, perhaps because the pain of the last election runs a lot deeper than he lets most of us see."

The report explains the background Gore's strenuous campaigning to persuade people to address the growing threat of climate-change caused environmental collapse.

"We have dug ourselves into a 20-foot hole, and we need somebody who knows how to build a ladder. Al's the guy," Jobs also told Newsweek. "Like many others, I have tried my best to convince him. So far, no luck."

Gore is known to be the Silicon Valley favourite for running for president on the Democratic ticket. Other Democratic hopefuls, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama don't seem to have captured the level of support among America's tech-industry elite.

Gore almost succeeded in becoming president in the past. In a contentious election in 2000 he won the popular vote but lost the election, ushering in the era of George Bush.

The man puts his money where his mouth is: profits from his film, An Inconvenient Truth to the Alliance for Climate Protection.

Despite popular support, Gore maintains he has no plans to run for president.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; Technical; US: California; US: Tennessee; United Kingdom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Steve, how about an usPod, usPhone, etc., instead of a bunch of I, I, I products that promote self centered and shortsighted behavior.


41 posted on 05/23/2007 4:12:56 PM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (Christ's Kingdom on Earth is the answer. What is your question?)
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To: misterrob
He wants a guy to run for President that would support economic ruination of this country. But, by your logic that means that Soros should be exalted as well.

I'm not exalting anybody. I'm disputing your spurious claim that Jobs in an idiot. There are lots of smart people with whom I disagree and/or dislike. For the record, Soros isn't an idiot either.

42 posted on 05/23/2007 4:13:24 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I bought a new laptop yesterday a MacBook! I hate to give Mr. Jobs any more money—but from what I can learn, none of the other makers are conservatives/Republicans, either. I absolutely love all my Macs!


43 posted on 05/23/2007 4:27:13 PM PDT by basil (Support the Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: Alter Kaker

I think the reason why everyone is dogging you is because you’re being silly about the “idiot” comment. It wasn’t said literally, as in “Steve Jobs has an IQ lower than 70.” Rather, it was a simile, like “What an ass” (doesn’t make one buttocks or a donkey) or “You’re a pig!” (said to Clinton, but he is still unfortunately a human).


44 posted on 05/23/2007 4:35:03 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alter Kaker
When Mr. Jobs took over Apple, its share price (adjusted for splits) was in the neighborhood of $3. Today it is at $113. I don't agree with Jobs on most political issues, but the man is no idiot.

you really ought to do your homework, Mr. Soros.

45 posted on 05/23/2007 4:39:55 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Thank you St. Jude.)
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To: Alter Kaker

Jobs may be a political idiot, but he makes a great computer.


46 posted on 05/23/2007 4:42:04 PM PDT by Laserman
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To: basil
I bought a new laptop yesterday a MacBook! I hate to give Mr. Jobs any more money—but from what I can learn, none of the other makers are conservatives/Republicans, either. I absolutely love all my Macs!

Buying what, in your judgment, is the best product, regardless of the personal preferences of its maker, is sort of what the free market is all about.

47 posted on 05/23/2007 4:42:56 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Thank you St. Jude.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Steve Jobs proposes Al Gore for president

Steve Jpbs, I think you misunderstood.

When Gore said he liked the Mac,
Big Al was thinking about eating it!

48 posted on 05/23/2007 4:49:09 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: the invisib1e hand

And then again, if he decides NOT to buy a product due to the political preferences of the maker, that is free market also!


49 posted on 05/23/2007 4:52:05 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Uhhhh, Steve, the last election was 2004. Get with it.

Maybe he just wants to get algore the heck out of the boardroom because he’s bugging him.


50 posted on 05/23/2007 4:56:21 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again. And Always Act.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jobs and all the other propeller heads out on the left coast see Gore as relatively moderate I’m sure.


51 posted on 05/23/2007 5:37:33 PM PDT by bkepley
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Stevie...better keep your DAY job.


52 posted on 05/23/2007 5:46:48 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her Phoniness is Genuine!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"But I think there's a question in his mind, perhaps because the pain of the last election runs a lot deeper than he lets most of us see."

Oh, brother...yeah,I can see it now: a dim, an empty "working class" bar, chairs stacked up on the tables, a waitress leaning against a corner -- yawning, some old black guy lazily sweeping the floor, the bartender counting recipts, and Al Gore just sitting there...and sitting there...and sitting there at the bar...running his chubby finger around the rim of that drink he's been nursing for the last 45 minutes. And then...then he starts to sing...

"Its quarter to three,
Theres no one in the place cept you and me
So set em up, joe
I got a little story I think you oughtta know

"We're drinking my friend
To the end of a brief episode
So make it one for my prez-a-den-cy
And one more for the road

"I could tell you a lot
But you gotta to be true to your code
So make it one for my prez-a-den-cy
And one more for the road

"You'd never know it
But buddy Im a kind of poet
And I've got a lot of things I wanna say
And if I'm gloomy, please listen to me
....Till its all, all talked away

"Well, thats how it goes
And, joe, I know youre gettin anxious to close
So thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn't mind
Me bending your ear

"But this be-tray-el I found
Must be drowned
Or I soon might explode
So make it one for my prez-a-den-cy
And one more for the road
That long, long road..."

53 posted on 05/23/2007 5:53:07 PM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: Alas Babylon!
And then again, if he decides NOT to buy a product due to the political preferences of the maker, that is free market also!

Yes, yes! Of course. Thanks for completing the thought.

54 posted on 05/23/2007 5:58:18 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Thank you St. Jude.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What a political idiot Mr. Jobs is. DAMN, just DAMN!!!

Arioch7

55 posted on 05/23/2007 5:59:28 PM PDT by Arioch7
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I love Apple but seriously, Steve Jobs is dead wrong though he may be right Al Gore has a better chance of winning the White House than Hillary Clinton.

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

56 posted on 05/23/2007 6:01:53 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Alter Kaker

It depends on who Al hates more, the Greens or the Clintons.


57 posted on 05/23/2007 6:15:24 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: weegee

Did the Reform party get matching funds after Perot?


58 posted on 05/23/2007 6:16:10 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sorry, Steveo. You're stuck with him.

Nice try though.

59 posted on 05/23/2007 6:16:59 PM PDT by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet)
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To: Tribune7

Gore will be the candidate. After the beast and the bama eat
each other alive, as in alienate all of America against them,
algore will be drafted by begging warmists all over the world, to run and save the world. Count on it.


60 posted on 05/23/2007 6:21:04 PM PDT by Fireone (Duncan Hunter for (Vice) President '08! - gohunter08.com Fred Thompson/Hunter in 2008)
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