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.
Ah. Now I understand the Biblical account in Revelation when it talks about the blood running shoulder-high in the valley of Meggido.
John was actually describing the politiking behind-the-scenes between Gore and Hillary! supporters.
Fun to watch it will be, young padawan! ;-)
I assume this is sarcasm, since both of these examples of "smart" are actually examples of only moderately clever felonies. Martha Stewart went to jail for less. Of course she did not have the press covering for her.
There goes that new Apple Powerbook I was going to buy. I guess its Dell or HP from now on.
Michael Dell is a Republican. You can check out his contributions here - http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Michael_Dell.php. While he has given to a few local, Texas Democrats. He has given significantly to National Republicans.
The reason the Apple has been successful has less to do with Jobs and more to do with their habit of hiring brilliant people to actually do the work of making good marketable products.
Jobs was in the original core of guys that made the mistakes that put
Apple dead last in manufacturers of computers for a few years too. They’ve always been a software company that fancied itself as a hardware company. That us why they remain a minor player. Jobs et al could have been where Microsoft is, but he blew it.
I work in a company also awash in brilliant people. A third of our staff have a PhD in the pure sciences. We’ve been successful too, but even our leadership understands that its not their brilliance that has brought success but the brilliance of the rank and file that’s really done it.
With regard to Mr. Jobs, his name brought some investors back to the fold, and his basic competence at listening to good advice has seen the company recover from oblivion. But smarts are context-sensitive. Many idiots can manage a company, but fewer can offer opinion that means anything useful in the real world.
Unfortunately, my husband owns a Dell—what a piece of crap that is! (Of course, he never updates anything, either—LOL!)
Bad news for Apple.
That's my interpretation... and Tubebender's... and we're sticking to it...
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Nope, it's the people buying $200 iPods rather than $50 MP3 players from other manufacturers who are the idiots.
All that aside, I sure hope Gorebot runs, it would fracture the Rats at the time that the Republicans would be uniting behind Fred Thompson.
LOL...it sounds so much better when you say it...
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Steve Jobs is played by the same actor who portrays Ronald McDonald -- Different make-up and wardrobe, but basically it's the same silly clown. |
Then he is far too thin skinned to be the President.
"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."
Then he is far too thin skinned to be the President.
Takes a nerd to love a nerd.
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