Before Al Gore could get serious about running for the U.S. presidency again, Eric Pooley reports for TIME Magazine, “he would have to come to terms with the scars of 2000 and accept the possibility that he could lose again in 2008. That prospect may be too much to bear. ‘If he ran, there’s no question in my mind that he would be elected,’ says Steve Jobs. ‘But I think there’s a question in his mind, perhaps because the pain of the last election runs a lot deeper than he lets most of us see.'”
Pooley reports, “At Apple, where Jobs invited him to join the board in 2003, Gore patiently nudged the CEO to adopt a new Greener Apple program that will eliminate toxic chemicals from the company’s products by next year. Last summer, Gore led the committee that investigated an Apple scandal—the backdating of stock options in the years before Gore joined the board—and cleared Jobs of wrongdoing. Political people were surprised Gore took that controversial assignment. ‘That’s silly,’ he says.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple CEO Steve Jobs, August 25, 2004, “Some people have said that I shouldn’t get involved politically because probably half our customers are Republicans – maybe a little less, maybe more Dell than ours. But I do point out that there are more Democrats than Mac users so I’m going to just stay away from all that political stuff…”
Al Gore has his good points, but all and all he’s a idiot just like GW Bush is, just a different form of a idiot.
Only idiots run for president, real stars are CEO’s.
@Canadian…
zoloft is your friend
I wonder what politics would be like without all the hatred, vitriol, name-calling, character assassination, finger-pointing, and division…
I’m not certain, but I don’t think anyone would recognize it. I guess what I’m really trying to say is:
“EVERYONE KNOCK IT OFF!!!”
It’s a good job that Jobs is not a politician. I don’t think he could stand the fakers and BS. His statement about Gorey makes me want to puke. Just like knowing most of today’s actors are commies, spoils the movie.
got to the 2nd page in under an hour, that’s gotta be a record.
MAD you got that right – Ron Paul 2008!
@ ChrissyOne
“Here we go again… I’m officially sitting this one out.”
That’s usually my policy when it gets like this.
“I will vote for whoever is willing to have the guts to support the Fair Tax Plan…”
I’ll second that motion!
Get the book. Our tax system is the biggest joke in the universe. Fair Tax would absolutely ROCK on so many levels. Alas, there are no politicians with any balls to take up the fight until several million Americans get behind the plan. That’s a hint, folks!!! Check it out and get involved:
http://www.fairtax.org
Yeah, I’d be worried about making political comments if I were Steve Jobs. My Republican friends all have Mac’s too, although they are intelligent enough to know that we don’t need to stop buying Macs just because Steve Jobs makes a few political comments.
Abdullah makes some excellent points, but I still wouldn’t vote for him-I don’t think. It frankly would depend on the other candidate.
Oh, and as a white male, I most definately would consider Obama, as I would have Colin Powell, but I don’t think 2 1/2 years as senator is sufficient to be President.
I hope whoever gets elected next year is able to get us out of the mess we’re in. No matter you’re political affiliation, or where in the world you live, the present situation, for the good of the world, can’t go on.
Newt for Prez 2008. He’s not as lard-arse as Gorey.
M.A.D. – yes! Ron Paul 2008!
@Abdullah;
How about Owl Gore using 20 times the energy in his house than the average American family? Can you say hypocrite? How about his mining operations polluting the countryside around his TN home?
Oh, and to all; every recount (and several news agencies went and did them) in the end proved GW Bush the Florida winner.
“Ron Paul 2008!”
MAD is the right name for you
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As for Gore, I don’t see him as an electable Candidate. Gore is far too polarizing and is already looked at as “used goods” in the same way that John McCain and and Hogn Edwards are.
My personal opinion is that the next president (and the primary winners) will not be the ones people most expect. Much like how Bill Clinton came from nowhere, I think that we will see that again.
According to my dashboard dictionary widget, a Chauvinist is a “person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.”
Why, thank you, Jim-TIV!
and I’m super serial! ;(
@ Dr. Phil
See, this is an excellent example of the erosion of the American intellect. Dr. Phil is America’s voice of psychology; Judge Judy is America’s voice of justice.
Everytime I meet a “middle-American,” I am surprised time and time again at their stupidity, their gaping mouths and lack of reason.
In Canada, we do have our share of idiots, but I guess we have our “Canadian Politeness” that keeps them shut up. Lacking such politeness in the USA, the idiots ring loud and clear.
My prediction…. we make page three by 11:10am pacific time
Hey Farlo – I understand your point of view but that is the nature politics.
I do remember 2000. And there are a whole host of inconvenient facts that people like to forget about it.
1) Gore had his lawyers on the ground before the votes were disputed. Why?
2) The initial cry was that senior citizens were confused by the butterfly ballot and so demanded that there be a recount. This ignores the facts that they weren’t confused until they got out of the election booth. Otherwise, they could have asked for a new ballot, or asked for help from the poll workers.
3) The votes were contested in counties were Democrats controlled the electoral boards. This gave them the power to recount the votes.
4) If you are going to steal votes, you are going to do it in areas that you control, not under your enemy’s nose. The Republicans didn’t try to steal votes in Democrat-controlled counties.
5) Both Patrick Buchannan and Rush Limbaugh live in West Palm Beach county. Buchannan had a “home court” effect that boosted the number of votes he received there as compared to other counties in Florida. (Too many people were declaring that Buchanan’s votes in West Palm were voter fraud. They were not.)
6) Elections are recounted until the recounting party declares victory. That was why the Democrats were interested in recounting the votes, but actively repressed the military vote.
I could go on, but you get the point. Remember the secrets sold to China? The claims of “no controlling legal authority”? The foreign funds raised in Bhuddist temples? The environmental hypocrisy? The claims that the Clinton administration was the most ethical in history? The playing fast and loose with the truth? The bogus pro-gun posturing? Slashing the military? Fudging the economic numbers (Commerce department’s wildly inflated numbers for ’98-’00)?
Yes, we conservatives have long, long memories. Gore would lose in ’08 as he lost in ’00. He is a vicious, snarky, holier-than-thou snake-oil salesman who longs for nothing more than a green revolution (read his books, folks), in which a handful of people have a lot of power, and the rest of us live poor and powerless.
@ Montex… lol, well bro that’s not the way it was intended but I’m glad you got a laugh outta it.
Seriously. Do you really believe that women vote with their feelings?
Right on, Sara.
Well, women can’t think, so all she got is her feelings. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Or are you too stupd?
@Canadian
“In Canada, we do have our share of idiots, but I guess we have our “Canadian Politeness” that keeps them shut up.”
And your posts are an example of this “canadian politeness”?
@Montex….
“Well, women can’t think, so all she got is her feelings. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Or are you too stupd?”
uh.. ok. Sorry. Didn’t mean to offend. I thought I was talking to a normal person. My bad.