Steve Jobs RIPs into Obama
 

Steve Jobs, known for his aggressive and sometimes prickly personality, didn't hold back when he met President Obama in 2010: The Apple CEO warned Obama he wasn't going to win re-election.

"You're headed for a one-term presidency," Jobs said during a meeting with the president that took place a year prior to Jobs' death related to pancreatic cancer, according to his upcoming biography as reported by the Huffington Post.

Walter Isaacson, who wrote the forthcoming Jobs bio, reportedly reveals that Jobs argued that Obama was jeopardizing his re-election prospects because of what Jobs took to be a pervasive anti-business climate in his administration. Jobs cited excessive federal regulations and operating costs for businesses as harmful legacies of the Obama White House.
Also, Jobs nearly missed the meeting in the first place.

From the Huffington Post:
Though his wife told him that Obama "was really psyched to meet with you," Jobs insisted on the personal invitation, and the standoff lasted for five days. When he finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed from a liberal into a conservative.

After laying into the White House's purported anti-business outlook, Jobs offered to help Obama repair the rift by arranging meeting between the president and a group of CEOs. When the guest list began to grow, Jobs reportedly resolved to back out of the gathering. Instead, he attended, though he poo-pooed the fancy menu. "But he was overruled by the White House, which cited the president's fondness for cream pie," Huffington Post writes.
Jobs also offered to to help create political ads for the president in 2012. Jobs had scotched a similar effort to craft Obama ads in 2008, when Isaacson claims that Jobs was unhappy that Obama strategist David Axelrod showed insufficient deference to the Apple honcho.

This and other political news is just the latest information to leak from the hotly anticipated book.

Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/s...144644675.html

It's easy to talk shit when you are dead.


:2 cents:

so obama likes creampies

I guess you have no reading comprehension.

He said this after and while meeting with him about a year ago.
It for some reason was kept quiet.

It's easy to go public when you are dead.

:1orglaugh

Fuck Steve Jobs... I don't own a single Apple product and never will...

We'll soon see if Steve is right or not, and you can bump this thread.

It is almost enough to help me overcome my animosity towards Apple products...... almost.

Ditto. So sick of hearing about him already. He's done. His time's passed. Let someone else have the spotlight for a bit.

:1orglaugh

You have not heard the last of Jobs.
Word is there are 4 years of products/innovations in the pipeline.

Yeah, why can't America just ignore environmental and child labor laws? Good point Jobs! Now if only we can drop the minimum wage here in the US, to around $1 an hour, like in China, then you could have exploited American workers here, instead of creating jobs in China instead. I mean, you were only worth like $30 BILLION dollars! How were you supposed to succeed here in the country that helpled get your business off the ground. Good points (douche wad).

And how many smartphones, computers, sneakers, clothing, you name it do you own?

Chances are almost 100% they were produced in China, India or some other 3rd world country. So enough with the Apple clap trap!

I just bought a new HP laptop and iPhone 4S, delivered by UPS. Both shipped from China.