“Presidential candidates are touting widespread broadband as a boost for employment and rural education, but a close look at financial interests suggests tech policy may also be a campaign paycheck. Candidates for both of the major political parties are drawing contributions from the technology industry, and from communications firms in particular. But the proportion differs,” Emily Kumler reports for Medill News Service.
“Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts says universal broadband access is necessary for the country to rebuild its tech sector and increase employment in high tech industry. As of mid-June, 38 percent of the $2,415,894 Kerry has received from his top 20 donors has come from contributors with a strong interest in the technology sector, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics,” Kumler reports.
“Meanwhile, 5 percent of the $5,886,487 provided by the top 20 contributors to the incumbent Republican candidate, President George Bush, comes from tech companies or lobbyists. The majority of Bush’s top contributors are financial firms that may have investments in the technology sector but are not directly acting on tech firms’ behalf. Another 5 percent, or $3,332,700, of Bush’s total contributions grouped by business sector came from the communications and electronics industry. At nearly $3.8 million, donations to the Kerry campaign from the communications and electronics industry nearly matched Bush’s, but they account for 9 percent of Kerry’s total donations,” Kumler reports. “Bush says broadband will facilitate a classroom in every living room, giving the most remote citizen access to a wealth of information and opportunity. The president has set the goal but has not outlined its execution other than imploring Congress to permanently ban Internet taxes.”
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Star-studded list of tech execs to endorse President Bush for another term – May 18, 2004
Apple CEO Steve Jobs advising presidential candiate Kerry on economic issues – May 01, 2004
President Bush calls for ban on broadband Internet tax – April 26, 2004
President George W. Bush calls for universal broadband by 2007 – March 29, 2004
The Mac is Bush to Windows’ Clinton – October 25, 2002
actually early on Segways were recalled because they had the problem of losing balance when the battery was low on power. And what a surprise that politicians dont tell the whole truth. And the other reason that Bush has the highest numbers of protests is that since he gained office the Internet has grown enormously. Not to mention that the masses cant handle the full truth. If we knew the full truth almost nothing would work, women would have nothing to gossip about, the news conglomerates wouldn’t have the amount of cheap garbage coverage to show us if we got the full truth all the time. To all the crybabies going on and on about how we have daddy and Mommas boys running the country why dont you grow up and try to improve your families standing instead of pouting on the sidelines about how you got nothing handed to you. We are all created equal its what we do with our lives that set us apart. And whats with all these judgments that are being thrown around, like no one here has ever not told a lie or not the whole truth. You people are sad examples of sheep if you expect the world around you to divulge all its secrets unto you because you believe you are entitled to know all.
Red Wings suck!
First of all, I think its stupid that we even have a son of president as a president. What is this, a monarchy? What are the chances someones son will make a better president than them?
ok, now that I got that off my chest, I don’t think GW is doing this all for profit, but the gang is making more money than anybody in this affair, thats for sure. I think GW has been all his life trying to prove himself to his dad, and this is an extension of that. He got the green light from 9-11 to go on his adgenda, and on his adgenda he has gone. Iraq is barelyrelated to 9-11, if at all. Certainly there are many places that are more related than Iraq. What else do you need?
jfbiii- In response to “”If you vote Kerry you support Terrorists.” That was you, skully, I believe.”
You didn’t finish reading all my posts. I wrote that becuase liberals get off on putting “Bush Hating” slogans on everything, with no evidence.
Why are you so fascinated in finding some great conspiracy to turn the US into the USSR of the 80’s. Your very paranoid. There is no way a presidnet could ever turn this country into anything that resembles the USSR. If the Patriot Act is a bad idea
Congress will fix it or repeal it. Nothing is perfect. And what is so wrong with giving Law Enforcement a little bit of help. I have not lost any of my Freedoms since 9-11, and I don’t know anybody who has.
G-SPANK, Welcome back nice to see you.. We need to go to a bigger fourm. These all mac guys don’t like us in here.
OK lets even put the whole Iraq thing aside. Bush should still not be re-elected. He totally dropped the ball before 9/11. I mean he got a briefing titled “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” that said FBI information “indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York” ONE MONTH BEFORE 9/11 while he was on vacation in Texas. And what did he do? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. AND HE STAYED ON VACATION.
Bush is totally lost. Check out this page detailing exactly how our commander in chief reacted on 9/11.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/essayaninterestingday.html
PLUS Bush LIES:
http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/caughtonfilm.htm
This is all not to mention that:
Bush’s tax breaks heavily favor the rich.
Bush’s record on the environment is deplorable.
Bush took a suplus and made it into a record deficit.
Bush has taken more vacation than any other president in history.
Bush’s policies are horrible for education.
Bush’s policies do not support veterans adequately.
If you think I should vote for Bush then please tell me concretely the actions that he did that merit me supporting him for 4 more years. And since we are leaving the War(s) he started out of it, PLEASE don’t tell me “Because he is kicking Terrorist Ass”. I think that angle on Bushes presidency has been more than adequately covered above.
Oh, I will concede that it is cool that he uses a Mac tho. I just don’t think that merits giving him four more years to screw up America.
Well Jack-A, you have some interesting info. Bush is still my guy. Like I said I don’t believe a word that come sout of a politicians mouth, I believe what I see. And I see Bush doing the best he can to protect us, to put us first. He has made mistakes and maybe history will say the Iraq war was as bad as Veitnam, but I don’t agree.
Skully, Which of Bush’s policies besides going to war do you support? Or don’t you care what he does dometically at all? Or does going to war cancel out any stupid thing he might choose to do on the home front?
Like I said I think the war issue has been done pretty well here. Personally I was for Afghanistan but thought that Iraq was based on shaky evidence. Once we were in there and it had started I supported it on the grounds that we should get it over with and get out as soon as possible. Well, we got Saddam and it is definately time to get the heck out before heavy handedness ends up creating more terrorist problems than we eliminated.
Please answer though with regards to Bush’s domestic policies. I think these are at least as important for Americans as his foreign policies. What has Bush done at home that you support?
Well, I was able to buy my first house this year, I’m able to put more of money into my 401k becuase of Bush. My wife and I are in a lower tax bracket because of him. People should never look to the president to give them a hand out, he should protect us and let us live our lives.
All this talk of the Iraq and the terrorist connection are hilarious. You want to weaken Al-Qaeda? Then invade Saudi Arabia. They have alot more ties that Iraq ever did.
Skully you should check out this site:
http://www.ctj.org/html/gwb0602.htm
The guys coming up with these new tax laws are not stupid. They know they have to make it seem like a good thing to the average tax payer and they can hire really tricky lawyers and accountants to make it seem so. If you dig just a little beneath the sufface though you can find out how much these “tax cuts” are actually costing the average tax payer and benefitting the top 1%.
George W. Bush, while seeming to give you money with one hand, is taking money out of your pocket and your childrens pockets to give it to the richest 1% of americans.
qman,
Just wait they’re next!
the US should use whatever means necessary to get information out of these chimpanzee terrorists. Any means. We need to take out the middle east now. These people can not control themselves.
what a waste of time reading such drivel.
While politicians in America like Ted Kennedy were comparing our soldiers to terrorists who ran Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers, those terrorists actually showed the world just how dangerously wrong the Massachusetts senator is.
For a week, I have been telling Americans that they needed to keep this prison scandal in perspective. Yesterday, the murderous thugs who are trying to stop freedom from spreading to Iraq put this scandal, this war, and this operation to liberate Iraq, in perfect perspective.
Terrorists who fear freedom more than anything else took the life of a young American by the most brutal and savage way possible. With a videotape running, they actually took a knife to the side of Nick Berg�s neck and carved half of it off. They flipped him over. Then they cut into the other side. And while screams rang out, they finally severed the Philadelphia native’s head, held it up, and shouted, �God is great.�
Watching that video, I thought of the hell that Nick’s parents and family members have to be going through, and of how Nick was actually over in Iraq to help rebuild that terrorized land. I thought about how those senators debating the niceties of international law apparently have no comprehension of just how evil our enemy is, and how now, more than ever, there can be no substitute for total and complete victory in Iraq.
We are a world in a war that will determine whether our children and their children live in peace. It’s a war that will determine whether we all live in a world where innocents are slaughtered, and terrorists define national policy. America must lead. America must persevere. And America must win, because we simply have no other choice.
Communists, communists, communists. Anyone who disagreed with the right were communists. Half of the tyrants in the world labeled their opponents communists and suckered the US out of money and arms, including the Taliban.
Terrorists, terrorists, terrorists. Saddam and others suckered the US out of money and arms to fight the Iranian and Islamic terrorists. Only problem now is more than half of the Islamic world cheers when the US gets it in the neck and the other half, plus half of the rest of the world, think “it serves them right,” and you can’t tell a terrorist from a non-terrorist anymore.
Next it’ll be liberals, liberals, liberals, and the right-wing-church will sucker the US out of money and arms to send you back to the middle ages with creationism, burning “heretics” at the stake and stoning homosexuals and adulterers. It starts with putting “God” into the Constitution because its founding fathers thought it fit to leave it out, next it’ll be teaching “creationist science” [an oxymoron if there was ever one], banning abortion [it’s “bad,” say the biggest group of child-sexual abusers], then banning homosexuality, which paradoxically enough a high percentage of the celibate clergy is.
Liberals are all for spending on the elevation of the standard of living and education, siphoning funds from the country’s defense industry and military that are needed to keep the US strong and defended from … who…? Communists, terrorists and liberals!
For ANY war to be won, you go for the source.
Vietnam and Korea were not the source of communism. Iraq was not the source of the World Trade Centers being only a memory now.
Sort of puts things in perspective …..
—– D-Day as covered by today’s media
By William J. Tobin
Here’s how today’s media might have covered D-Day, 60 years ago:
On the coast of France, June 6, 1944:
Hundreds of paratroopers have fallen wide of their target zone. (In Washington, the Senate Armed Services Committee is demanding an explanation. The Army chief of staff may be called to testify.)
The French village of Cerville has been destroyed by mortar fire from a U.S. infantry platoon. Four civilians were killed, including one elderly great-grandmother. German defenders had retreated hours before the American attack. Army intelligence failures are cited.
NBC Exclusive: Four bombs dropped by 8th Air Force raiders failed to explode when they fell in an empty field close to the village of Le Challimond. An examination indicates the duds came from an Iowa munitions factory. An unidentified Army corporal said additional defective bombs may already be aboard other U.S. bombers heading
for France.
Thousands of American casualties were suffered today as troops poured on shore at Omaha Beach. (In Washington, a Nebraska congressmen charged that many GI’s were unprepared for what they encountered during the invasion. “Somebody needs to be held accountable,” he said.)
Heavy Navy shelling from battleships and cruisers had little effect on Nazi gun emplacements raining fire on U.S. forces, several correspondents at the scene reported. (In Washington, a World War I veteran interviewed by a reporter questioned the value of troop support by warships, saying “the days of naval involvement in battles is long past.”)
CBS Exclusive: Bombs falling on the tiny French village of
Entierier killed all four cows on which residents depend for milk and cheese.
Severe shortages are feared unless U.S. forces can replace the animals by next week.
A 411-year-old church in the village of Marsuiles was destroyed by Army artillery fire after a German sniper was detected shooting from the bell tower. The Vichy French government mayor of the town protested to advancing GI’s, saying the sniper surely would have ceased firing had the American soldiers asked him to do so. He demanded an apology from Gen. Omar Bradley.
NBC Exclusive, in a report from Paris: Residents here fear the Eiffel Tower might be destroyed by advancing American forces. “They probably do not appreciate the beauties of the City of Light,” said Pierre Mutrand, the mayor appointed by occupying German forces. His sentiments were echoed by a number of Parisians and several Nazi SS officers, interviewed while sipping aperitifs at sidewalk cafes along the Champs-Elys�es.
A river near the French coast has been contaminated by fuel leaking from two disabled tanks that advancing GI’s pushed over the side of a bridge. French puppet civic leaders questioned the need to clear the bridge by such drastic action, saying it appeared soldiers could have climbed over the wreckage had it been left in place. Correspondents were denied an interview by the young Army captain commanding
troops in the area.
CBS Exclusive: American forces bogged down in the hedgerows of the French countryside have been calling for reinforcements to help escape withering German fire. Communication problems, however, have leftcommanders on the beach unaware that some of their troops are in a desperate situation. It makes you wonder whether their training was adequate – or even if there was any training at all.
On the home front:
As first battle reports indicated heavy casualties on Omaha Beach, a Republican leader addressing a Republican rally in Bloomington, Ind., told a group of somber Hoosiers that the invasion losses are evidence that President Roosevelt is incompetent. The Indiana congressional
delegation responded by saying it would begin bipartisan hearings to see whether Roosevelt had concealed information that the invasion would be more costly than expected. In a panel discussion broadcast by NBC Radio, four White House correspondents provided illuminating insight into the difficulties being encountered by Allied forces in France. Jeremy Jeffords, Washington Bureau chief of a small Midwest newspaper, said, “The decision to start the invasion this early in June is open to severe criticism. Gen. Eisenhower and his planners apparently failed to take into account that delaying this assault until August would have found much of the French population on a holiday and thus removed from
the path of the fighting.”
In Chicago, the Rev. Blakely Elmera, a noted peace activist, deplored the violence taking place on the French battlefields. “Apparently our government in Washington gave no thought to the possibility of negotiating with German leaders in an effort to resolve their differences,” he said. “We seem to be blindly following Churchill’s affection for war.” In London, the British prime minister lit a new cigar and declined to respond.
Joe,
it’s such a shame we’re fighting that war in such an asinine way, eh? As far as tacticians go, this commander in cheif hasn’t graduated grade school…
g-stank,
thank god you aren’t in charge of anything important. you will be utterly proven wrong you freaking moron!
rodrigo, that was cool. i enjoyed the flashback. As far as applying it to this war, it works and it doesn’t. In WWII it was a very clear cut decision to go to war. I mean shit, we joined the whole thing late, after Hitler had already conquered most of Europe. That’s a clear cut case. If Bush was in power then, he probably would have invaded Turkey before the war got started, and made the whole thing eaiser for Hitler. “preemptive strike” they’d call it, and it wouldn’t target the real enemy. I think Turkey had some ethnic cleansing at the time, and that would have been the scape goat. Anyway, America would have fucked up the whole thing…
Jay, considering I did just a little better than Bush on his SAT’s I agree that I really don’t quite have the brains to be in charge of this country…
you liberal idiots love to get upset when anyone calls you out for what you are yet you hypocrites have no problem name call the US president. Up yours mothrfkers!!!!!!