“Already a winner on the business front for his support and guidance to President Obama and his reelection campaign, there is growing speculation that Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is in line for an even bigger payoff: secretary of either Treasury or Commerce or a new ‘secretary of business’ slot,” Paul Bedard reports for The Washington Examiner.
“Cabinet shakeup watchers have focused on Schmidt and his Yoda status in the Obama reelection campaign, Google’s massive $1.9 million to Democrats in the election, and the administration’s efforts to quiet a potential Federal Trade Commission investigation of Google as key signs that the president wants Schmidt in the cabinet,” Bedard reports. “Since Obama ran for national office, Google has been there with money and advice.”
Bedard reports, “It’s been a match made in heaven. Schmidt stood with Obama during his first 2008 post-election press conference. When Obama started to push for a new round of stimulus spending in 2011, Schmidt was a cheerleader. Google’s political action committee delivered $1.6 million to Democrats in 2008 and over $700,000 to Obama in the last election.”
Read more in the full article here.
Related articles:
Google’s Explainer-in-Chief Eric Schmidt can’t explain Apple – December 5, 2012
So, Eric Schmidt, where are those iOS-slaying Android exclusive apps? – June 7, 2012
Why Eric Schmidt’s prediction about Android vs. iOS development is dead wrong – December 15, 2011
Eric Schmidt: Google’s Android to top Apple’s iOS among developers within 6 months – December 7, 2011
Steve Jobs: ‘I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product; I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this’ – October 20, 2011
What’s up with Eric Schmidt’s revisionist history of his relationship with Steve Jobs? – October 14, 2011
Sometimes all you can do is just laugh and ride out the insanity.
To pass the time, here’s some fun reading:
The Keynesian Depression by Scott Minerd
There will be plenty of insanity posted below here. Two trigger names in one headline !
The whole US gov’t represents not the people but big money. All current politicians should get impeached because we know big money got them there. We should get rid of political donations and the ridiculous idea that a corporation is a person. Maybe later, we can remove legalese from the laws, like in Switzerland, that way the common man can take the power back from the all powerful high-priest-lawyers. The idea that a known thief, absolutely evil man, may control the country is crazy. Unfortunately, either the majority of Americans are stupid/short-sighted, or big money has absolute control of law makers and the courts. If either is the case, then overwhelming despair for the 99.9% of mankind is inevitable.
I say that most Americans are just short. Compared to those giants in the rest of the world, we will forever be known as the civilization who scraped the used chewing gum from the bottom of the desks of modern thought. All praise, ye.
Yes indeed let me read your racist trash. *rolls eyes*
Is fearing absolute control by the evil Schmidt racist? Maybe just any protest to the status quo is racist, unAmerican and soon illegal.
Keynesian, not Kenyan, dummy.
YESS!! Welcome back!! No, wait; WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH ‘FIRST 2010, THEN 2012’?! And are we to assume that the iCal dates he *INSISTED* we all input should just be ignored/deleted?!
…one more gangster in the White House hardly matters at this point.
If the jackass appoints a mole he’ll have a right fine barnyard.
I say yea for Schmitt!!!
Schmitt would make a fine and fitting Secretary of Weasel Business and Back-ally Affairs.
Lol
Secretary of the Water Cabinet (W.C.)
W.C. stands for water closet doesn’t it?
Except when he’s out standing in his Fields
Aaaahhh, yes.
Schmidt would be great at infiltrating (hmm. who has anything we want?) MI6? and stealing their secrets!
Wouldn’t work. They take ‘Spot the Nerd’ training.
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Cronyistic Obama can’t get much stupider, can he? Let’s pray not or next he’ll be asking, “Hey, before our tee time today, what’s this big red button do?”
Home to the wretched, the good country, doomed is.
Yoda, you ignorant slut.
LOL!
Could our current economic challenges be due to so many goods and services being made obsolete by a wondrous device that fits in your pocket?
Companies will fail in large numbers as the new paradigm emerges.
How perfect! Schmidt can join all the other worthless parasites that wallow around in the wasteland that is DC.
Yoda? Yoda?! How dare thee sully his name!! For His sake, this is the dark side all across the board!
Difficulty with language? It is “How darest thou…”
“Thee” goes with me, him, her, us. “Thou” goes with I, he, she, we.
My apologies; my Olde English is rusty.
So, it has come to this, has it? The grammar police have acquired a time machine. The nobility are vex’d, whom we see have sided in his behalf.
Sorry, I forgot this is the US. We don’t need no educayshen.
Reflecting, I realize that my flip response to your serious contribution detracted from the usual excellence of discourse at this site and I want to apologize for trivializing the matter. I may have become overly zealous after playing around with a new Shakespeare app.
OMG. NOT.
If this is true, and that’s a big if, I will have lost alot of respect for Obama. Let’s hope it’s not.
You must have a high tolerance for ineptitude.
It’s popcorn and recliner time.
Hah! That 1 percent loser Schmidt only gets a POST while most of us in the middle class get to assume a position!!!
….wait….
If Eric ran Google like Obama runs the government, Google would already be dead.
Schmidt has the 5 qualifications for the Obama team:
1. Twisting
2. Turning
3. Obfuscation
4. Deception
5. Lying
I wonder what the qualifications are for the “other team”?
The same.
The article is a waste of time. Really, who cares? I guess fanboys will be all pissed off but who cares what they think? Just something for them to comment on endlessly.
unbelieveable :(:(
and in a few years Tom Clancy will write an account of it called: “The Mole Agenda”.
Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me. Let pretend we’re just 2 people, you are no better than me. Are you F-ing Crazy! Schmidt is a backstabbing thief, who stole from Apple while sitting on their Board of Directors. Do this and you will only prove that crime does pay. I sure as hell don’t want this Eric Schmidt as a representive of the country I love. I don’t know how you can sleep at night with this a$$hole in your cabinet at any post.
And another thing, Pumski, keep Schmidt the hell away from the NSA and any other security apparatus, including the venetian blinds in your office.
Secretqary of “Just too Damn Good Looking for His Own Good”
Yowser.
It’s comforting to know that cabinet posts are available to the highest bidder. It’s such a convenient way to quash an anti-trust investigation.
Jesus cast the money-changers from the temple. The incumbent appears happy to do the opposite.
Conflict of interest much?
wondering if the bid was based on pi.
Shouldn’t this notion trigger another lawsuit? Immediacy comes to mind. Someone, it seems to me, needs to be tied down and shrink wrapped ASAP. The whole world will be questioning the veracity of every single action yet to be taken by any American government official anywhere – not to mention the outrage engendered here at home. Folks, it may be time for us all to reconsider the revolutionary elements of our Declaration Of Independence.
Smitty is perfect for my gang, sleezy and ruthless.
He has the dirt on everybody from Google, like the CIA chief I just sacked.
Haha, all Hail me the Emperor of the United Clueless.
We already know the administration is inept. The appointment would certainly make our suspicions certain. In no uncertain terms.
That’s actually a better place for him. He’s an academic
whoa.
great news:
a business man leading the economy as economists are merely unrealistic theorists.
bad news:
Schmidt?! the faux pas. ego-maniac. police-statist. spineless psycho. visionary-less robber. and that’s good for democracy?!