Apple today announced that Albert Gore Jr., the former Vice President of the United States, has joined the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Gore was elected at Apple’s board meeting today.
“Al brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having helped run the largest organization in the world — the United States government — as a Congressman, Senator and our 45th Vice President. Al is also an avid Mac user and does his own video editing in Final Cut Pro,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Al is going to be a terrific Director and we’re excited and honored that he has chosen Apple as his first private sector board to serve on.”
“Steve and his team have done an incredible job in making Apple once again the very best in the world,” said former Vice President Al Gore. “I have been particularly impressed with the new Mac OS X operating system and the company’s commitment to the open source movement. And I am especially looking forward to working with and learning from the great board members who have guided this legendary company’s inspiring resurgence.”
Mr. Gore was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993. He was re-elected in 1996, and helped lead the U.S. into the longest period of sustained economic growth in American history. He served for a total of eight years as President of the Senate, a member of the cabinet and the National Security Council, and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives including environmental policy, technology, science, communications and government cost reduction.
As a member of the U.S. Congress 25 years ago, he popularized the term “Information Superhighway,” and was instrumental in fighting for federal funds to assist in building what later became the Internet. He has remained an active leader in technology — launching a public/private effort to wire every classroom and library in America to the Internet.
Mr. Gore serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. He is also a visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Fisk University and Middle Tennessee State University.
Mr. Gore received his B.A. in Government with honors from Harvard University in 1969, and attended the Vanderbilt University School of Religion and the Vanderbilt University School of Law.
the last i heard, gore won the popular vote.
now we have vietnam II. aren’t you happy now??
Popular vote?
Fortunately, our republic doesn’t use the popular vote to elect our leader. Gore lost. Get over it.
As far as Vietnam…well, Iraq’s nothing like Vietnam. I’m glad we’re going to take action against this murderer.
The Clinton Administration was generally well liked overseas, and Clinton still has a “rock star” charisma, especially in emerging nation. Gore was a partner in that, and will bring to Apple a positive international exposure. I believe that this will be well received especially in Europe and the emerging nations, where the Microsoft monopoly is fast becoming a pariah, and where the ideals of Apple’s innovation will play well.
Naysayers aside, I would expect that Apple get a net gain in the U.S. as well, though I’m sure that these same naysayers will be quite vociferous.
In a related move, Microsoft is now heavily funding the Democrats in their bid to get take back the presidency so that Bush Jr will be able to serve on it’s board of directors in November 2004, because everyone knows that a President as a board member would have more prestige than a mere Vice-President.
Apple, your committation of Al Gore as your member is a huge mistake!!! Why would you want a former vice-president who guided this country to its biggest economic boom in history to be on your board? He knows nothing about them high-tech thingies. He is incompetentable. I, on the other hand, is responsivor for the reversation of this country’s biggest budget to it’s biggest deficit. And i managed to do it in only 2.5 years. Apple is doomed!!!!! Dommed i tell ya’ll. Drop your macs, buy a PC and vote Repablicun!!!!!!!!!!!
— Regime change…in 2004 —
Al Gore is a moron who called his Pimp In Chief “the greatest president in history.” Now we’re supposed to believe him when he says Apple makes “the greatest computers in history?”
SUCKERS. Clinton / Gore voters sowed the seeds of OBL and the WTC slaughter. SUCKERS.
Apple should put all their money in a LOCK…..BOX.
Since I invented the Internet I know best. I also think hand-crank generator driven iMacs make good ecological sense.
Your pal Al
I guess we’ll find out who owns Apple stock when it comes time to vote up or down on Gore. I can’t see anything positive here except for maybe a wooing of the left. Too bad Apple has to be so political, it’s sure to throw a lot of people. Despite the comments towards non-lefties by lefties about leaving Apple, I see a better vision of an apolitical Apple where conservatives and libertarians can feel welcome to chose a superior platform without the nagging dilema of making a political choice when they do so. As for Al Gore, I think he’s trying hard to remain relevant but I found him largely delusional from his inability to tell the truth during his presidential campaign despite his ideology.
Here’s a great picture of Algore….our new board member…..
Jay,
You’re absolutely correct. Al Gore is a poor choice for a number of reasons. Let’s forget about his talents or lack of talents for a moment. Half of this country’s population did not vote for him and his appointment to the board simply politicizes Apple in a bad way. Why should Apple go out their way to annoy so many potential customers.
Wouldn’t have been better to appoint someone that wasn’t so polarizing?
Al Gore was an extremely bad choice.
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Well, in my opinion.. with an economy going (obviously) not so well (eufemistically speaking) you might wonder what the Apple’s destiny will be for the near and not that near future. Just our appreciation and love for this product would definitely NOT make it survive through time; it NEEDs a backup – and I think (as I have faith in Steve’s decision) that Al Gore will have a word to say and offer a more solid ground for Apple’s future developements. He might surely not be a state-of-the-art designer or a hi-tech guru but a company needs more than only these to succesfully run, you must surely agree. What part Al Gore will play (using his known and unknown resources) it’s obviously hard to tell, but surely he wasn’t elected as a board member just for his “popularity vote”. There must be more than meets the eyes. I, for one, give him my vote of confidence.
Interesting to hear all the finger pointing about Clinton and Gore in respect to Osama Bin Laden, when Daddy Bush with his pal Reagan (remember him, the guy who left the White House with the same Alzhiemers he went in with) sold all the weapons and Anthrax to their buddy Saddam Hussein. Now shrub’s wanting to clear dad’s name and try and win some clout with his war so he can possibly stay in the White House a little longer and screw the country further into the toilet. Blow it out your you know what, guys. Get over it. You’re destroying our country. Give it back to the Democrats and lets have some prosperity and level-headed thinking again.
It looks like this board has been attacked by Freepers…yikes. Why don’t all of you Fascists dump your Macs and buy Dells. Good riddance I say.
Classy alzheimer jokes. Nice.
And I always thought you liberals were beyond that. LOL!!!
This entire little thread is a perfect example why Gore’s appointment was a mistake. Too polarizing.
> This entire little thread is a perfect
> example why Gore’s appointment was a mistake.
> Too polarizing.
No, this is good!! This sets Apple even further away from GOP-friendly Micro$oft. Apple is clearly gearing themselves to become a major players again.
They now have: a world’s best OS and the superior sw bundle for music, internet, video, and photos.
They will soon have: a kick-ass 64-bit processor that will put Macs back in the running.
Now add a popular Vice President of the United States (yes, he is popular with over 1/2 of americans…more than Bush Jr. has now), with decades of government experience and contacts. And his politics meshes perfectly with Apple’s: products made for the betterment of people, not the mere maximization of profit.
This is an exciting move that will help Apple grow (when Bush is defeated in 2004 and the economy can begin to heal). If you want to sell your Mac and get a PC because of this, then that means a respective number of PC-owners will lose their PCs and get Macs! Life is good!
I was about to vomit when I read this but then I realized my iBook was in the way.
Sheesh… Can’t people leave a good thing alone! Apple was looking pretty good lately too… Maybe it was a typo.
1) Democrats are squarely in the minority.
2) Algore is a Democrat.
3) Apple is squarely in the minority.
4) Neither have any hope of regaining the majority anytime soon.
5) Any party with Daschle is a sick party.
6) Jobs would have done better to pick a major CEO of a company that could affect real change from Wintel to 30% greater productivity under Mac OS X. Say, get the guy who runs Fidelity or something like that and use the Reality Distortion Field on him to begin replacing Wintel with Macintosh over time. Prove to the world Mac works in business.
7) Jobs must be dropping acid again.
I think Al Gore is a daring and controversial choice for a board-member in Apple. It is an open secret that corporate politics is what runs America in the present day and this news is a fitting example of it. In any case, I think Al Gore is a worthy board-member because of his unique experience and resume. If his presence repulses Republican Mac users into buying Dell then good riddance and good luck.
To think we had Al Gore elected and have it snatched away by a right-wing Supreme Court. How can anybody think we are better off now, under the boot of the village idiot and his fascist friends, on the cusp of a totally unecessary war? It almost makes me hurl to think Repablickens are using Macs. Go crawl back under your rocks!
Guess the next Power Mac won’t be sleek brushed aluminum after all. It’ll be wooden and the Mac OS X Speech Preference Pane will have only “slow, slower and slowest” on the rate of speech slider.
I used to believe that only ur president was moronic. After reading some of these posts, I’m starting to believe that most americans r moronic, too. Keep following him down the garden path, kids; its sooooo clear that ur economy and foreign relations are better today than before Bush userped the whitehouse. Ha ha ha hee hee…
This is an INCREDIBLE MISTAKE!!!!! If I owned Apple stock I would raise absolute HELL over the appointment of this pompus, lying weasel to the board of Apple. The only possible choice that could have been worse is the old slickster himself.
I have never been under any impression other than that Steve Jobs is a liberal Democrat, and that’s just fine with me. His private politics are his business, but when he brings the original “flip/flop” man into the boardroom, it’s just too much for me.
If ALGORE (spelling intentional) wants to serve on corporate boards, let him work for Trojan Condoms, the pharmaceutical company that makes the morning after pill, or Handgun Control, Inc.
I remember a Senator that was anti-gun control, anti-abortion, etc COMPLETELY & TOTALLY CHANGED his views in order to ride slick willy’s coat-tails. This is a reflection of a man without any core or center in his mind or soul. This is not about conservative/liberal or Democrat/Republican, it’s about someone who will throw away a lifetime of values for a totally opposite set in order to advance his own personal agenda.
Mr Jobs, remove this weasel from your board, or lose another loyal customer. If I have to, I’ll uninstall os X from all my computers and replace it with Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.
Stupid,
STUPID,
STOOPID!!!!!!
Seriously, what difference does it make to you who the board-members of Apple are? This kind of news affects people who trade stocks more than any of us users.
Great! Just great. Like Apple doesn’t have enough PR problems. Now they’ve got Mr. I “invented the internet” as an advisor!
Qualifications? Let’s see, Flunked out of a college or two, kicked out of another, never ran his own business, hasn’t worked in the private sector for almost his entire life. Great resume! However, he’s good at looking the other way, spinning the press……….. OH I GET IT NOW!!!!!
He’s going to have the press fawning over him so since he works for Apple, Apple will finally get good press, except for those nasty dirty conservitives at Fox News.
FYI: Al GORE IS THE VIIAGE IDIOT
I am so tired of hearing all this liberal crap about how stupid GW Bush is and how intelligent Al Gore is. Al Gore went to Harvard & could not get into Harvard grad school, George Bush went to Yale, graduated,AND got accepted to Harvard B-school, which was and is very selective.
Don’t give me that line about political influence getting him in. At the time these 2 men were college age the Sr Bush had only served as a congressman while Al Gore’s dad had been a US Senator. Besides, it’s been a long time since having a republican politician in the family was a plus anywhere at Harvard.
Finally, you would think that liberals would have come up with something better than their old claim that all republican presidents are mentally dull. They said it about Eisenhower,Reagan, and now GW Bush. I guess that means he’s in for 8 years as well. Not TOO stupid. Ask Ann Richards who was much smarter than GW Bush and then became a “former” Gov of Texas. Ask Al Gore, the self-proclaimed inventor of the internet and smartest man to ever run for president, who is now trying to figure out exactly what went wrong…
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Get over it you dumbass Repablickers. Jobs is a Democrat, Gore is a Democrat and so is over half of registered voters. We are going to kick the unelected bastard out in 2004. Hopefully there will be a country left for the rest of us. In the meantime go get a Gateway.