In Time Magazine’s July 19 issue, on page 31, John Kerry is seen using an Apple PowerBook (15″ TiBook, it looks like). The photo, taken by Diana Walker, is captioned “From his study in the family’s Pittsburgh, PA, home, Kerry phones Edwards to officially invite the North Carolina Senator to be his running mate.” This comes on the heels of the report, “Vice President Dick Cheney a confirmed Apple iPod user” and, of course we all know that, at least back in 1998 when the photo of Bush was snapped, President Bush uses a PowerBook, too. That just leaves V.P. candidate John Edwards’ choice of platform in question.
MacDailyNews Take: You’d think that with Apple CEO Steve Jobs advising John Kerry and with Al Gore on Apple’s Board of Directors, Steve could figure out a way to get Kerry a new 17″ PowerBook – at least for photo ops.
Update: Updated PowerBook model speculation as per Seahawk’s post below.
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Conservative Mac users miffed at Apple’s Jimmy Carter page – October 14, 2002
The Mac is Bush to Windows’ Clinton – October 25, 2002
Bush-Cheney ’04 Re-election website adds QuickTime multimedia choice – April 27, 2004
Governors also lose Presidential elections. Recent examples are, of course, Carter and Dukakis. In “modern times” (post 1950’s television era), most presidential elections haven’t included Senators. But their winning percentage has actually been on par with the far more frequent option of governors. The reality is that the cycles of Senatorial terms often preclude as great a pool of candidates for non-incumbant candidacies as those from Governor offices.
In other words, your argument has no statistical basis and is inherently flawed.
Lie? My statement was very clear and stands on its own: 15 Senators have become President. Period.
Your attempts at obscuring the facts and attacking the messenger only expose your clear insecurities.
It’s the voting records, stupid. You take the votes and spin them against the senator. Easy as pie.
And, thanks to unionized Democrat teachers dumbing down America for years, it’s easy to mold public opinion.
Bush will win easier than you think. Sorry to break it to you.
Foam: Let’s hope your simplistic world view is shared by a majority of the electoral college. Bush’s follies have been great for my pocketbook, so I have no interest in seeing him gone.
Atomic,
Link, please.
Foam, “thanks to unionized Democrat teachers dumbing down America for years, it’s easy to mold public opinion.” How right you are, just look at how many saps think Michael Moore is spouting Gospel instead of propaganda.
Link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
Atomic ahole,
Let’s hope that your phony boy Kerry doesn’t make it into office or we’ll probably see atomic bombs set off on our soil. You’d probably like that though you psycho!
A-Bomb, that link doesn’t show Senators who ran for President and won. Poor try, bomber. My link does:
http://www.freep.com/news/politics/civics16_20040216.htm
“Harding and Kennedy are the only two senators who have won the White House.”
Atomic,
Who the hell are you to name call the President of the United States? What are your major accomplishments? Gay internet porn watching? Give me a break and spare us the name calling of our president.
CUPERTINO, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple� today announced financial results for its fiscal 2004 third quarter ended June 26, 2004. For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $61 million, or $.16 per diluted share. These results compare to a net profit of $19 million, or $.05 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $2.014 billion, up 30 percent from the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 27.8 percent, up from 27.7 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 39 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
The quarter’s results include an after-tax restructuring charge of $6 million. Excluding this charge, the Company’s net profit for the quarter would have been $67 million, or $.17 per diluted share.
Apple shipped 876 thousand Macintosh� units and 860 thousand iPods during the quarter, representing a 14 percent increase in CPU units and a 183 percent increase in iPods over the year-ago quarter.
“It was an outstanding quarter-our highest third quarter revenue in eight years,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Our Mac-based revenue grew a healthy 19 percent, and our music-based revenue grew an incredible 162 percent. We’ve got a strong product portfolio, with some amazing new additions coming later this year.”
“We were very pleased with our 30 percent year-over-year revenue growth and our operating margin expansion,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, we expect revenue of about $2.1 billion and earnings per diluted share of $.16 to $.17, including $.01 per diluted share in restructuring charges.”
Anybody ever seen a photo of Apple board member Al Gore using an Apple computer?
Got a link?
Kiss this perfumed lib adios. We stopped electing lib yankees from Massa a long time ago. They are just plain out of touch. Besides, we need a tough guy in there now.
We will mend fences down the road. Until then, who needs skeddadlers like the French, the Spaniards and the Filipinos. They cut and run.
you donkey
They just don’t run where smells like oil
This is hilarious! It’s so easy to whip the lobotomized Bush zombies into a tizzy.
What a pathetic lot.
1) Maybe at the top, you need a smart guy as opposed to a tough guy. You win wars like the one we’re in using intelligence, not macho bravura.
2) The last yankee from Ma. elected was George Bush Sr., if you’re talking about where they really lived as opposed to where they paid taxes. So the only difference is whether you should elect liberals or not.
Well of course I have an expensive Apple laptop, my billionaire, foreign born, widow-wife, “TAY-RAY-ZAH”, bought for me.
—John Kerry
just a gigilo…
P.S. I have only missed 73% of the Senate votes in the last year, not the 80% someone mentioned earlier.
now that we know we killed tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens, 894 Americans, 60 Britons, six Bulgarians, one Dane, one Dutch, one Estonian, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, six Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and seven Ukrainians, in the war in Iraq as of July 14, 2004, ALL FOR NOTHING, what do we do now? we know the WMD’s were a lie, i think people let that one slide. what do we do when we find out 9-11 was a lie also? who was responsible? we know that famous Usama Bin Laden video was a lie. so what does this mean? we now know that 9-11 was no suprise to the bush admin. what does that tell us? we had the world in our hand and now we dropped the ball. as American Citizens, what do we do to right these wrongs? we don’t need a “strong person in the whitehouse” we need strong citizens to demand that washington speaks for the democratic majority. we need strong citizens to demand our rights back. we need to vote these insane men out. we need to all show up in november.
Reply to “the big one”: What it means is you are an idiot.
P.S. John Kerry voted to invade Iraq.
(John Kerry was absent for 78% of the Senate votes last year. AWOL.)
John Edwards is on the Senate Intelligence Committee that recieved the same intelligence info as the President and recommended that the U.S. invade Iraq.
(John Edwards was absent for 43%of the Senate votes last year. AWOL.)
I suggest you move out of the U.S. and give up your citizenship. Move to Iraq and help your buddy Bin Laden.
So those who vote for Bush like:
Torture http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-sweden-guantanamo.html
Trillions in debt.
Telling people to lie about the health care plan (100+ billion more then Bush told Congress).
He wants to ban same-sex marriages. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/10/politics/10amend.html?fta=y
etc, etc.
I’m not saying I like John Kerry either, but Bush has done some incedibly f***ked things.
MA = Massachusetts.
ME = Maine (where Geo Bush lived part of the time).
Thomas Hobbbess: “Trillions in debt.”
Yeah, sure.
Same-sex marriages: Well, get married to your boyfriend for chrissakes…move to Massachusetts.
By the way Kerry is not for same-sex marriages, neither is Edwards.
Health care? Kerry and Edwards are in the SEnate that approves all Health care plans in the US. Where is their responsibility.
Educate yourself Thom and someday when you are 18 you can vote.
Why do people tend to think of politicians as superhuman? They are just people, they make mistakes and act in their own interest. Its good that Mac’s are getting further penetration in the military and government.
“I love liberals, they taste like chicken”
Bon Apetite
I’ll bet that both of those laptops were put there as props to ‘fill out’ the shot, or make the candidates look more ‘with it’. Time magazine probably sent the photographer and an art director. And I bet the computers belong to the photographer or a staff member.
Just a little bit of cynicism on my part (because i’m a photographer).
And just because a staff member mentions the particular brand of computer doesn’t mean anything. No one in this campaign would admit that their boss DOESN’T use a computer, nowadays. So they would probably say the brand THEY use.
Photos are just as phony as everything else.
dv
PS Kerrys comp is a Tibook, look at the picture it has the ports on the back. All the new AL books have the ports on the sides, something i really appreciate.