Presidential campaign strategist David Axelrod has a 488-page memoir, “Believer: My 40 Years in Politics,” which is due out Feb. 10 from Penguin Press.
An advance copy was obtained by the New York Daily News and an excerpt includes:
In 2007, Obama got a sneak peek at the iPhone during a private meeting with Apple’s Steve Jobs. “If it were legal, I would buy a boatload of Apple stock. This thing is going to be really big,” Obama said after the meeting.
Steve Jobs publicly unveiled the iPhone on January 9, 2007. It went on sale on June 29, 2007. Assuming that Jobs showed iPhone off to Obama sometime between those two dates, not prior to the Jan. 9th public reveal, AAPL prices ranged from $11.22 to $16.70, or an average of $13.96. 10,000 shares of AAPL purchased for $139,600 are worth $1.2 million today.
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It’s nice to have a crystal balls to foresees everything in life. Life would be much easier, rosy then, no obstacles, no failures.
Steve Jobs was liberal and gave money to Democrats. He even let Bill Clinton use the Jackling House to visit Chelsea when she was enrolled at Stanford.
Deal with it.
But … but … everything a liberal says, does, or thinks is automatically wrong! And Steve Jobs was never wrong!
Does … not … compute …
Error … error …
*explodes*
You appear to be cut from the same cloth. 😛
And you apparently hosted the Last Supper, blahblahblahvininnik.
The truth is a foreign concept to Democrat leftists. They just get all upset when the truth is uttered. You should thank Botvinnik for educating you.
They all suck. Especially Dubya.
Deal with it.
I don’t remember Bush ordering the IRS to attack his political opponents.
I don’t remember Bush using the national security apparatus to bug the phones and computers of reporters as Obama did with Sheryl Atkinson and James Rosen and no doubt others.
I don’t remember Bush ordering the DoJ to let Mexican drug cartel goons get automatic rifles illegally with no tracking of these guns so people would be killed (200 Mexicans and 2 US government employees) so he could advance his gun agenda, like Obama did.
I don’t remember Bush playing cards while an Embassy was under attack and four Americans were being raped and killed and no order being given to help the Americans. Obama ordered the military to stand down. And Obama has ordered that the Press not be given any details of what he did from the time the attack started until he went to Las Vegas to meet with billionaire donors, while the bodies were being collected.
I don’t remember Bush intentionally lying about legitimate local law enforcement actions so race riots would be started, to solidify his support among gang bangers and welfare recipients.
I don’t remember Bush always attacking the history and traditions of the US when speaking to third world dictators.
Bush was certainly not perfect. But on occasion he was very good. Obama is perfectly evil. Every single thing he does is perfectly understandable for a person whose goal is to destroy America.
Sounds like you have a shitty memory.
No, I have a great memory. Bush didn’t destroy America, like our Jackass Muslim President is doing now.
Bush created ISIS by attacking Irak with no real reason. He should have gone after Osama Bin Laden but he went after Saddam instead, guess he thought that was better deal for his business pals. Now we have to deal with ISIS. Thank God Obama took care of Bin Laden.
You do realize you are a racist pig, right? Is it bad being a Muslim? Do you know Steve Jobs’s biological father was an Arab Muslim, right? People like you spew hate and nonsense a
What a fucking idiot.
your mother: only a fucking idiot would make a post without referencing who the reply is directed toward.
Absolutely, Obama is a fucking Muslim idiot and the people who voted for him are too. That must include your mother.
“I don’t remember Bush ordering the IRS to attack his political opponents.” “intentionally lying about legitimate local law enforcement actions” etc.
LOL. Seriously?
Bush went to war with a third world country because it had terrorists crossing its unprotected borders. Tons of civilians die, tons of our soldiers die, a trillion $ is added to our national debt, and … the terrorists were not caught.
Bush attacked another country who didn’t attack us for non-existent weapons of mass destruction. Hundreds of thousands of civilians die, enormous numbers of our soldiers die, trillions of dollars added to our national debt and … no weapons of mass destruction found.
Bush used a terrorist attack on the US to rationalize ramping up the industrial-military complex and pay for security theatre with new debt, wrecked our global reputation for representing freedom individual rights by systematically using torture, and turn the US into a surveillance state.
In other words, we got attacked and Bush went insane and reacted like the terrorists would want. By institutionalizing fear into national politics.
The list goes on.
Ironically Obama doubled down on all the above except the torture.
They are both terrible presidents.
Nevermark
Bush never took the side of the enemy against our own country, which our dear Asswipe President Barack Obama does every day. And he only lies when his lips are moving. And his ears are so big they can be used for shade. Obama is evil incarnate. And people who voted for this jerk should castrate themselves and promise never to vote again.
Iraqi civilian deaths since Obama abandoned Iraq:
2012; 4622
2013: 9709
2014: 17073
Terrorists waterboarded: 3
You just didn’t hear about it, anonymous Kent. All of that type of crap happened in previous administrations (as the technologies of the time permitted), but your hidebound partisan psyche just won’t let you see it.
Give me the examples, which you can’t because we never had a President before who actually hated the country.
Obama is Republican lite with a (D) behind his name on the ballot. The American Conservative even said so
“Obama has governed as a moderate conservative—essentially as what used to be called a liberal Republican before all such people disappeared from the GOP. He has been conservative to exactly the same degree that Richard Nixon basically governed as a moderate liberal, something no conservative would deny today.”
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/obama-is-a-republican/
The author, Bruce Bartlett, served as a policy advisor to Reagan and a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush. I think he knows a Republican when he sees one.
Deal with It.
Hey botvy,
Steve Jobs might have thought of you when he said:
“You’ve baked a really lovely cake, but then you’ve used dog shit for frosting.” -Steve Jobs
Wake up little shit
Sorry,
I should have said:
“Wake up you BIG shit”
“Moderate conservative?” Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
Obama is a 100% pure moocher-supporting socialist. He was raised by Marxists.
Another conservative that doesn’t realize the ACA is nothing more than Nixonian healthcare policy that every GOP administration failed to pass. Gingrich would have danced in a pink tutu if his Congress had passed it.
You obnoxious snort!
do you snort all day long? 24/7
Pardon me….you do take a break once in a blue moon.
I do see you on rare occasions with some bright thoughts!
Please, Botvinnik, spare us from your tyranny of MDN forum spew. This is an Apple-centric forum, not a political forum. Take it somewhere else.
On most issues Obama doubled down on Bush’s policies.
Even his most liberal accomplishment, the new health care plan, took its inspiration from a Republican idea which is require everyone to buy their own insurance to stop the irresponsible from getting a free ride on the tax payer.
Obama sometimes talks like a clueless liberal, and with respect to business he seems both clueless and liberal. But the actual policies he has enacted have a conservative bent.
I put it down to him getting in office, not really having any idea what to do besides healthcare, being distracted by the economy meltdown he inherited, and so going with the flow left by Bush on most issues.
He is certainly the most conservative behaving Democrat in many decades.
Don’t care for the politics- I just wanna give Steve a high five wherever he is
you’re gonna need a shovel…
yo
I now wonder when it was that the Pelosies bought their boatloads of AAPL.
It is so much fun and totally predictable.
Anytime the proper noun “Obama” appears on MDN, the pre-programmed (I would even suggest brainwashed) haters come out in the commentary thread and flame wars ensue. Such juvenile fun!
I never hate anyone in office. I agree or disagree with their actions and their policies. Mr. Obama has done lots of agreeable things, and lots of disagreeable things from my viewpoint.
Please note I did not define who or what the haters on this thread hate. It is a two way street.
Obama is a liar. I do indeed hate liars.
He had to lie over and over and over to pass his signature legislation.
I can’t tell if he is the worst American president or the best anti-American president.
Go find some other place to pollute. You are not only irrelevant but also boring.
You obnoxious snort!
do you snort all day long? 24/7
Pardon me….you do take a break once in a blue moon.
I do see you on rare occasions with some bright thoughts!
$ value in article is wrong. 1.2 million in today stock is 10,000 shares, the 7:1 split is not accounted for.
~1429 shares of 2007 stock, purchased for $21,435 in 2007 Apple stock is now $1.2 million.
The price range of $11.22 to $16.70 actually does include the 7:1 split, so the article is correct.
He has a pen and phone and a Koran. He can do whatever he wants. His new Constitution says so.
Food for thought: on January 19, 2009 (The last day of President George Bush’s two terms) the Dow closed at 7,949.09, Nasdaq closed at 1,440.69 and the S&P at 805.22. Today the Dow is 17,935, Nasdaq is 4,783 and the S&P is at 2,071.
Yes. markets go up and down.
Food for thought: Number of American Full-Time Jobs as Percent of Population Is Lowest It’s Ever Been
Food for thought: Record number of Americans on Food Stamps
A rise in the markets does not make the abomination any less of a lying POS
That is the president of my country you are calling an abomination and a piece of shit. The office of president deserve some respect. Once you begin using ad hominem attacks in your argument, you have already lost the debate.
Disagreeing with some one is one thing, attacking them is completely different.
Once you start using ad hominem attacks any valid points you might make after that are usually completely ignored.
Praus. Yup. Sure am! I just call’m like I seem. I prefer to be ignored by the likes of you.
“by the likes of you” assumes that you know what kind of person I am and I can assure you that you do not.
For the president to be put in Leavenworth, he would need to be found guilty of a federal crime. You have not indicated a crime that the president is guilty of. He has also never even been put on trial for one.
Thus proving my point, even if you are using sarcasm and a veiled ad hominem attack.
It was quite clear. Your inability to refrain from attacks and actually bring up valid criticism speaks volumes.
If my aunt had balls she would be my uncle. I wish I had bought a boatload of Apple stock back when it was so cheap.
You nailed it. Legalities don’t stop Obama.
He can just unconstitutionally rewrite the laws as he wishes.
Don’t like the Obamacare mandates as written by law?
No problem. He will delay them for you until he gets out of office.
The constitution gives the president a fair amount of power to make executive decisions. It is not unconstitutional for the president to use that power. It seems you simply don’t like the way the president has chosen to use his power, that is not the same and being unconstitutional. Extreme hyperbole like that only weakens your argument.
For another example of a president using his executive order power, see the emancipation proclamation by president Lincoln.
You’ll need to site the instance in which the president used his power in a method that is unconstitutional. If that had happened however, there is a good chance the president would have been impeached.
I beg to differ. I think focusing on grammar and spelling is a sign that you don’t have any valid counter argument to make.
A spelling mistake is not the same thing as being illiterate. Either that is hyperbole and you have already lost the debate or you honestly don’t know the meaning of illiterate.
Mistaking a spelling error for a lack of education is your mistake, not mine. the best writers in the world often make spelling errors or grammatical errors. Thats why they have editors.
““the best writers in the world…”
well, you’re not among them.”
Undoubtedly true. Hence was my point that equating a spelling mistake, something even the best writers (of which I am not) are guilty of, to a lack of education or even illiteracy was invalid.
If his meeting and seeing the iPhone was before January 9th (highly unlikely, even before he was even a candidate for the democratic nomination) and he would have acted, that would be insider trading. However, once the iPhone was unveiled there was enough public information that any purchase of stock at that point would have been fine. Sounds more like a “I wish I had done that but lets make an excuse why I didn’t that still makes me look smart”. Like a lot of the other stuff that will be in the book (and this is true about all books like this), a little truth sprinkled in with a lot of other stuff to hopefully make it interesting and try to make someone look good and others not so good.
Who’s to say Obama didn’t?!? What would be a good pseudo name that Obama would give to himself and create a separate identity?… “man who can’t say Islamic Terrorist”? I don’t know, but how does that translate into “Dances with Wolves” Sioux?
The abomination could have purchased stock by opening a trading account using one of his many social security numbers.
You obnoxious snort!
do you snort all day long? 24/7
Pardon me….you do take a break once in a blue moon.
I do see you on rare occasions with some bright thoughts!
Third time was a charm….
It didn’t even go through your outer layer of your skull
Some one need to make it go through your thick skull
May be your rotten brain gets some fresh air!
by the way….
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.-Merry Browne
Have you any friends left?
Just padding your own votes don’t count!!
The story I hear is that Obama took one look at the iPhone and said, “You didn’t build that.”
Congratulations to everyone yelling about politics on never changing one single person’s mind, ever.
Here you go again…
Empty shell…