“If dollars translate into votes then tech’s top companies are squarely behind Barack Obama, by a better than 5 to 1 margin if you believe the Center for Responsive Politics and its latest stats on the issue,” Jim Goldman reports for CNBC.
“The group put together donation records for some of the top companies in Silicon Valley and the numbers are striking. Overall, Obama outraised John McCain $1,434,719 to $267,041. Google was Obama’s single biggest corporate donor, racking up $485,961 in donations, compared to only $20,600 for John McCain,” Goldman reports.
“As for McCain’s biggest corporate donor? That’d be Cisco Systems, where CEO John Chambers is a vocal supporter of McCain as a co-chairman of his campaign. Employees there forked over $80,676 to McCain. But those donations still didn’t measure up to the $149,078 Cisco employees also sent Obama’s way,” Goldman reports.
“Other notables? Apple Inc. workers donated $98,023 for Obama and $16,950 for McCain; Hewlett-Packard employees raised $148,057 for Obama, and $15,750 for McCain,” Goldman reports.
“Important to note: The Center for Responsive Politics says some contributors didn’t identify their employer so all of this might not represent every donation. Also important: McCain’s fundraising was limited because he accepted public-financing while Obama did not, so that might skew the numbers in Obama’s favor as well,” Goldman reports.
More in the full article here.
Say what you will about George W. Bush, but the worst blunder of his administration was to pave the way for this man and what promises to be the single largest peace time expansion of the Federal Government since the Great Depression, even though history shows this is the biggest economic mistake you can possibly make.
Slow news day. Let us just get the Obamagasm over with alright?
If by “Obamagasm” you mean the coming flood of new government programs, laws on top of laws, taxes, redistribution of wealth, aka giant liberal albatross on the back of the economy, getting it over with is a pipe dream. They haven’t even started.
Probably for the same reason that so many leading scientists do.
List of scientists who endorsed Barack Obama:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_endorsements
Peter Agre, Nobel Prize-winning scientist (Chemistry 2003)
Don Lamb, University of Chicago astrophysicist and former NASA scientist
Sharon Long, former dean of Stanford University’s School of Humanities & Science
Gilbert Omenn, Professor of internal medicine, human genetics and public health at the University of Michigan
Peter Norvig (Director of Research, Google)
David Cope, Professor Emeritus, University of California, progenitor of algorithmic composition
Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize-winning scientist (Medicine 1989)
Alexei Abrikosov (Nobel Laureate Physics 2003)
Roger Guillemin (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1977)
John L. Hall (Nobel Laureate Physics 2005)
Sidney Altman(Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1989)
Leland H. Hartwell (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2001)
Philip W. Anderson (Nobel Laureate Physics 1977)
Dudley Herschbach (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1986)
Richard Axel (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2004)
Roald Hoffmann (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1981)
David Baltimore (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1975)
H. Robert Horvitz (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2002)
Baruj Benacerraf (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1980)
Louis Ignarro (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1998)
Paul Berg (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1980)
Eric R. Kandel (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2000)
J. Michael Bishop (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1989)
Walter Kohn (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1998)
Nicolaas Bloembergen (Nobel Laureate Physics 1981)
Roger Kornberg (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2006)
Michael S. Brown (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1985)
Leon M. Lederman (Nobel Laureate Physics 1988)
Linda B. Buck (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2004)
Craig C. Mello (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2006)
Mario R. Capecchi (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2007)
Oliver Smithies (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2007)
Marshall Nirenberg (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1968)
Stanley Cohen (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1986)
Douglas D. Osheroff (Nobel Laureate Physics 1996)
Leon Cooper (Nobel Laureate Physics 1972)
Stanley B. Prusiner (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1997)
James W. Cronin (Nobel Laureate Physics 1980)
Norman F. Ramsey (Nobel Laureate Physics 1989)
Robert F. Curl (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1996)
Robert Richardson (Nobel Laureate Physics 1996)
Johann Deisenhofer (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1988)
Burton Richter (Nobel Laureate Physics 1976)
John B. Fenn (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2002)
Sherwood Rowland (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1995)
Edmond H. Fischer (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1992)
Oliver Smithies (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2007)
Val Fitch (Nobel Laureate Physics 1980)
Richard Schrock (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2005)
Jerome I. Friedman (Nobel Laureate Physics 1990)
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (Nobel Laureate Physics 1993)
Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel Laureate Physics 2002)
E. Donnall Thomas (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1990)
Walter Gilbert (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1980)
Charles H. Townes (Nobel Laureate Physics 1964)
Alfred G. Gilman (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1994)
Daniel C. Tsui (Nobel Laureate Physics 1998)
Donald A. Glaser (Nobel Laureate Physics 1960)
Sheldon Glashow (Nobel Laureate Physics 1979)
James D. Watson(Nobel Laureate Medicine1962)
Joseph Goldstein(Nobel Laureate Medicine 1985)
Eric Wieschaus(Nobel Laureate Medicine 1995)
Paul Greengard(Nobel Laureate Medicine 2000)
Frank Wilczek(Nobel Laureate Physics 2004)
David Gross(Nobel Laureate Physics 2004)
Robert W. Wilson(Nobel Laureate Physics 1978)
Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2005)
Martin Chalfie (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2008)
List of scientists who endorsed John McCain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_John_McCain_presidential_campaign_endorsements
ZZZZZZZEEEEERRRRROO000OO!!!!!
Without Bush, there would have been NO 11th! It was completely unconscious to have accepted this silly guy as president. And Palin as vice… is at least twice as absurd!
Ha! I’ll enjoy spending rich people’s money handout I get from the government on booxze, drugs, and gash.
“Apple Inc. workers donated $98,023 for Obama and $16,950 for McCain”
I’m with ericdano on this … let’s just get it over with. Only about four or five states really matter in this, the rest are foregone conclusions. It might be beneficial if the rules were modified slightly so that candidates were awarded a rough percentage of each state’s delegates rather than “winner-take-all”.
As for StarkReality, you don’t think several thousand needless deaths of young Americans is a “blunder” of immense proportions? That the shredding of the Constitution is at least as bad? That feeding the War Profiteers is immoral and unethical beyond abidance? That torture … never mind, “I survived worse at my frat house”, SURE you did.
Back On Topic: can we set a rule here? That openly political commentary be banned? For McCain, against McSame, for Obama, against Osama … all of it. The civil and the uncivil alike. The statement quoted is the only part of this that related to Apple – and it said nothing about the hardware, the software, the marketing, or anything else relating to company business.
This election will be one of the most important of our lifetimes. Please make your decision based upon the moral character and values of the candidates rather than it being a referendum on George Bush’s real and perceived shortcomings. There is room for significant disappointment with the Presidency, House, Senate, Judiciary and news media.
Here’s what we know about Barak Obama’s personal conduct and sacrificial, charitable giving –
“Senator Obama’s 1% giving to charity calls into question his commitment to the poor and needy and exposes his lack of conviction to the most vulnerable in our society. Recent tax returns made public by Senator Obama, from 2000 though 2004, show that he gave less than 1% of his income to charitable causes. Senator Obama has campaigned on the theme of change and reaching out to the most needy and broken in our society, but he is not willing to “put his money where his mouth is” on the issue of social justice.”
Barak Obama does think, however, that it is acceptable and a moral obligation to take from you by force that which you have earned by sweat and sacrifice. These recent words of Barak Obama quoted from an October 31 news story are instructive.
“The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich,” Obama said in Sarasota, Fla., yesterday. “I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. Go for it. That’s the American dream, that’s the American way, that’s terrific.
“The point is, though, that — and it’s not just charity, it’s not just that I want to help the middle class and working people who are trying to get in the middle class — it’s that when we actually make sure that everybody’s got a shot – when young people can all go to college, when everybody’s got decent health care, when everybody’s got a little more money at the end of the month – then guess what? Everybody starts spending that money, they decide maybe I can afford a new car, maybe I can afford a computer for my child. They can buy the products and services that businesses are selling and everybody is better off. All boats rise. That’s what happened in the 1990s, that’s what we need to restore. And that’s what I’m gonna do as president of the United States of America.
“John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic,” Obama continued. “You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.”
Now let’s also think about something the Supreme Court decided –
“The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.” (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sutherland, Gregory vs. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465, 1965)
There IS NO moral obligation to pay high taxes. There is a personal moral obligation to take care of your family and your fellow man. It is important to show self sacrifice and personally help others through time, talent and treasure. Barak Obama has demonstrated profound selfishness by not personally doing more – he has personally only voluntarily given less than 1% of his own income. Yet he wants to forcibly take from people who have sacrificed to produce monetary wealth. Many of these people have voluntarily and sacrificially given of their own free will to charities and causes of their own choice – something that Obama himself has failed to do. Obama’s desired actions will increase the power of government at the expense of your personal freedom and liberty.
Obama looks good on TV and speaks eloquently but leadership based on his value system and personal decisions is bad for the country. While this email is mainly about one of many reason why I will not support Barak Obama with my vote, there are many reasons why John McCain deserves my vote. Among them is his prior service and sacrifice to our country. John McCain is the only candidate who has made sacrificial giving to protect and preserve our freedoms. He did that by serving during war time. He did that with his service in the Senate. And he has done that by consistently giving over 10% of his income to charity.
A final personal note – Democrats and Republicans are all Americans. And more often than not, I believe we all want what is good and right for this country. Many times we agree on what is good and right. More frequently we simply disagree on how to get from where we are as a people to where we want to be and know we should be as a people. It is important that we not vilify one another. It is equally important that we speak in truth and love. And that we examine the moral compass of those we choose to lead and guide us.
May God bless you and may God bless this country.
I wonder if it’s worth iCal’ing all the Obama win doom-sayers and, for that matter, those who see Obama as the second coming of JFK. Right now it strikes me that their comments and prognostications have about as much value as an Enderle analysis.
Perhaps we should all just relax and wait to see how this works out. Give Obama (or McCain, should he win) the chance to actually DO something instead of just promise something before shooting off your mouth. Kind of like Enderle shooting his mouth off without actually using a Mac (or properly testing Windows 7 touchscreen). Oh how that demo made me laugh!
As for me…I’m off to pick up my son from school so that he can come with me when I vote.
Seems the stock market likes this election. Everybody is going up!
MDN won’t get rid of the political posts because they generate too many page hits, and that’s what MDN cares about, not keeping things civil here.
And as for Obama, I get a chuckle out of StarkReality. The biggest PEACETIME expansion of the federal government? What happened to those wars you guys have been hawking for the last couple of elections? You mean getting Obama in office is going to bring peace? Cool, that’s fantastic.
@ Not Ready to Fork it Over
“There IS NO moral obligation to pay high taxes. There is a personal moral obligation to take care of your family and your fellow man.”
Can you cut your posts down a notch, Safari is smoking here. Also I think your statement here is contradictory. My brother IS my keeper and the main way I keep him and my family well nowadays is through my taxes and the social services they buy. The only issue is how much taxes and what level of services.
Does this mean there will be a Mac in the oval office?
Seems as if most truly believe the media hype…I see it as dead even. Keep in mind, Obama barely beat Hillary, and CNN has Obama barely ahead of the unappealing, older, Bush attached McCain. If Obama is truly a savior, then he should be farther ahead.
Maybe we should write in Cindy Crawford for president if we want to gamble for appeal and “gonna”. We all enjoyed 6 good economic years of Bush, but that history is thrown in the trash. No president wishes for the difficulties that Bush has had in his 8 years…I don’t agree with everything, but I commend him on many things. It wasn’t easy.
“Please make your decision based upon the moral character and values of the candidates rather than it being a referendum on George Bush’s real and perceived shortcomings.”
You Republicans want to sweep George W. Bush under the rug so badly. Anything to avoid taking responsibility for the mess you’ve laid at our doorstep.
Why shouldn’t this election be a referendum on George Bush when one of the candidates is promising to continue his policies? It seems to me that we should look at the previous 8 years in order to gauge what our future would resemble if said candidate were to be elected.
There is not one fundamental difference between George W. Bush and John McCain. The latter just promises to “cut spending” but we all know how that works out since all modern Republican presidents promised the same only to leave us drowning in deficits.
Mone handouts! Gimme gimme gimme! Socialism and welfare are great!! You work, pay taxes, and I party.
Seeing that it’s not the President who makes laws, changes laws, raises taxes, etc. and our congress has an approval rating way under the president’s, people should be less worried about who becomes president and more concerned with who is going back to DC to rep us.
When the tax cuts expire, and they will, anyone making a house hold income of $154k will see nearly a 4% raise in their taxes…and that doesn’t include the additional amount Obama is trying to talk us into. Maybe we will have some good congressmen who will stand up the the president’s ideas….
@Paul Zune’s Thunderdong
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Partying is illegal in socialist countries.
@Daily Reader: Finally some sense in here! Bravo, sir.
almux, you are an idiot. Go review history. 9/11 was not Bush’s fault. It was the whole government’s fault, including Clinton, including the 1st Bush, and even R.R.
It is amazing how people forget things. If you asked people on 9/10/01 about the idea of people flying planes into buildings, you’d have been locked up. It just wasn’t a possibility.
Stop drinking your far left (or right) Kool-Aid.
For a little non-partisan thoughtfulness, check out:
http://www.patrolmag.com/times/922/how-shall-we-then-vote
What a sweet little “concern troll” posting from Not Ready to Fork it Over.
You want to talk “moral character and values”? Alright, let’s try and even this out a bit by looking at some facts about John Sydney McCain III:
1. Left his wife and children within a year of returning from Vietnam. Ross Perot said he was the most despicable person he had ever met. Ross, by the way, financially supported McCain’s abandoned family for many many years when John would not. Family values are shown in actions, not words.
2. Keating Five. Enough said.
3. Iraq War cheeder: John said on numerous programs, including David Letterman’s, that we needed to go to war with Iraq ASAP. I don’t care what intelligence you have access to, what secrets you claim to know, or what superior judgment you claim to have, war is not the subject of light and flippant discussion. Morally, insistent pursuit of war is an abomination. Should war be justified, its consideration should be with the gravest of seriousness and somber discussion. John “Next stop, BAGHDAD!” McCain showed no such seriousness and certainly did not seek a vetting of the intelligence that he and the Bush administration hide behind even to this day. Even worse, he refused to seek any accountability for the fraudulent claims that were used to justify the war in the first place. Where were John’s morals and ethics on those days?
Your claims that we all must consider the morals and character of the candidates is nothing more than a poorly veiled attack on Obama. You are not interested in facts or policy or record. Instead, you seek smear, smut, and insinuation of deeds and motives that you can no more prove than the world is flat and that pigs fly.
If, by some horrible nightmare twist of reality, Bush was running again, you’d be feeding out the same tripe in defense of Bush, your so-called admission of Bush’s short-comings gone in a poof of smoke.
The truth is that you’d support a one-eyed, crank-addled monkey if it was running on the red ticket. Not because said monkey would be a good president, but because he was on the red ticket. That is putting party before country which is the very definition of unpatriotic and unacceptable. Washington, Adams, and Jefferson all warned and vexed about the evils of political parties. You demonstrate the worst of those fears.
@StarkReality
The U.S. is NOT at peace. We are fighting two wars — Iraq and Afganistan — plus the “War on Terror.” And no, these are not all the same thing. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their Republican cronies have nearly bankrupt this country to pay for his Iraqi folly and to line the pockets of defense contractors with American taxpayer’s money. That’s the largest redistribution of wealth this country has ever seen, and it shocks me that true conservatives don’t realize what the Republicans have actually done.
I for one am glad to see that American voters have finally come to their senses to throw these criminals out of office. It should have happened in 2004 when the looting of the Treasury was still manageable and thousands of young American lives could have been spared.
R2, John McCain is a Republican. He has a lot of views that are similar to Bush. This is true. However, his record is one that is rather good……compared to Obama. Oh wait, Obama doesn’t have much of a record. He hasn’t even finished a term yet. Ok, let’s look at Biden’s record………..yikes. Have you seen how he votes?
I think the choices were poor this election. You have to snow job that the Democrats are pushing, which is Change. But then you have this VP who has been in the Senate longer than I have been alive, who has a spotty voting record, and who got less votes in the primary elections than Steven Colbert. It looks to be like a Bush/Cheney but Democratic version.
Oh, and whatever happened to all that “change” that was supposed to happen when Pelosi and her people took over Congress 2 years ago. Yeah……..nothing.
Then on the Republican side, you have John McCain who, in 2000, was really a great choice. Except now………I don’t know who he is. He isn’t the John McCain of 2000. I think he is a Cylon.
Basically, I want a President who will finish the War in the Middle East. Finish as in leaving with a stable, free government in place. I want a President who knows that Big Government programs are doomed to fail. Like social security. I want a President who will reform my taxes. I think it is highway robbery that about a 1/4 of my income is gone to the Government. I can’t imagine that the rich have to pay even more than that. That is not fair.
So, which person can do all that? Neither……..unless you drink Kool Aid and really believe Obama is going to come through on all the promises he has made.
Amazing the blindness by so many. OH NOES OBAMA IS TEH SOCIALIST.
Funny how quickly they forget the MASSIVE government expansion and intrusion into all our lives at the hand of the Bush Admin. Oh but it’s OK if WE do it crap doesn’t fly.
I wonder how many people would be fine with the patriot Act if it was called the Government Intrusion and Surveillance Act? Oh but it’s OK, it’s got the word Patriot in it, so it MUST be good right?
OH NOES ITS WELFARE. Guess what, we’ve had corporate welfare for the last 8 years. You tax dollars at work subsidizing big government. But it’s OK if YOUR GUY does it right?
We all know the Reps favors MS and the Dems favors Apple. A victory for Obama is great for the company we all love to follow and more importantly, for human kind. The dark ages are finally over folks!
@Macromancer…
Nope, I haven’t forgotten the disappointment of George W. Bush. If anything, Bush made me realize it really doesn’t matter who you vote for. These criminals will expand government to suit themselves no matter what.
I haven’t seen an actual fiscal conservative in the White House since John Kennedy and Reagan.
9/11 was a Republican Junta.
Kick the bums out and see if Obama can salvage what remains of the Republic, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
We’ll ALL be paying for the Bush-neo-Con mess for decades.
I’d Obama a lot easier to support if he’d just change two of his views:
1. Get off the typical, Democrat gun-control agenda. The Constitution is pretty clear. If you don’t like it, move to have a new amendment added. Otherwise, just shut up about the “what works in Chicago might not work in Cheyenne” crap. It seems pretty obvious to me that Chicago’s gun control *ISN’T* working. Why can’t people figure out that criminals, BY DEFINITION, do not obey the law??
2. “Spreading the wealth around” scares me witless. Wealth isn’t the issue- opportunity is. Giving tax breaks or credits to low income (or even middle class) folks isn’t going to fix anything. The fundamental problem is that some folks don’t have the opportunity to grow. Make the necessary changes so that the opportunity is there- but f*ck ’em if they decide to waste it. I’m sick and tired of people whining about this or that. You know, if you really want to make things better, it takes work. You have to put some effort into it, not just accept a government handout. Everyone should have the chance to succeed, but if you don’t take it, tough nuggies for you.
@GT
Don’t dare talk about moral character and values when Obama and Nancy Pelosi think it is “OK” and not crossing the line for people in SF to have special parades where gay men walk the streets waving their wankers.
Meanwhile, I have to try to explain to my son why Bob is kissing Bill because they demand their public rights and are supported by Obama and Pelosi.
God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. If Obama wins, the door to Sodom and Gomorrah is kicked open.
@ StarkReality You are talking out of the wrong orifice.
Well actually, you’re just making things up based on nothing at all.
to vote for Ron Paul!
Booyah!
I got your “Green Party” Right here!
ShaPow!
@R2
And I wonder how many of these scientists believe in the other great delusion of our time, Global Warming. That and ‘Change’ – as Phineas T Barnum once said, no one ever lost money by overestimating the stupidity of the American public.
I think HIllary is ahead right now. Cool.
Republican, Democrats. I don’t think it matters at this point. The problem is that both parities have been infiltrated by special intreats groups that make sure that whomever gets elected, will still do their bidding. We have more serious problems that can’t be address in this fashion. Greed controls the world and everything will go down the drain because it every man for his own.
People, don’t kid your selves. Their is no real political discourse here, their is only one party with two factions. But as long as we think we have a democracy everything will be O.K. Their is no choice, their is only the illusion of choice so brace your selves because our why of life is unsustainable. We are headed for some hard times. If prosperity is our only goal, then we have all lost.
@Macromancer: You do realize that Obama voted for the Patriot Act, don’t you? And you also realize that Obama’s plans are for Western-European style socialism, don’t you? But hey, if GDP growth at 1% (instead of 3-5%) and breaks in national security is what you want, then vote Obama.
@CD
Nice pivot and topical attack.
The world’s not pretty and often won’t conform to your demands. As a parent, you get the job of teaching your children how to survive and thrive in this world. If you aren’t up to the task, don’t ask government to do it for you.
Thanks for playing.
GT
I would challange any of you to show me where any one politician stood their ground for the duration of their adult lives. Every one of us has changed our outlook on things throughout our adult lives. We will continue to do so, the main reason is we all have kids (for the most part). No matter who is elected, the sun comes up tomorrow. Your vote is not going to change anything. Our country will remain the world power, our economy will recover and life will move on with retards defending their ever changing politics and the same retards either proclaiming their God is far superior to your God or you will all go to hell for this or that.
Life is about very little, other than everything is consistantly changing and will forever change consistantly.
I only hope that as each and everyone of you who are so staunch on your “stances” in life, will come to this same understanding as you are pissing on yourselves as you struggle to hold onto the life that is escaping you at your death. And may the most ignorant of you struggle for many months in an amount of pain that no person should have ever gotten to experience. May your own personal God ( Which ever one you shill for) present death to you in a most violent and horrific manner for not understanding life’s most important found rule…” Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” If God strikes me dead now, I will see you all in that place most of you call hell, you know the place where you say everyone that doesn’t believe as you do is going to be sent after judgement?.
Late
Oh, almost forgot, Raise your own damn kids. Or do us all a favor and get snipped.
And tell those little bastards to stay out of my yard. Maybe if I just make the dogs chain longer???? Hmmmmmm
All of you doomsayers out there, why are you continuing to spread this nonsense?
Taxes and the discussion surrounding them are all on Obama’s homepage. It is laid out completely and thoroughly. Additionally, the 250k limit is for INDIVIDUAL not corporate or business taxes.
I am so happy that most of the voters have been able to see beyond this. As for govt. programs, these are not going to be the bane of Obama’s existence. He will stimulate private enterprise, but with some scrutiny. The days of Laissez-faire are over. And who wouldn’t want some oversight? With the addition of stem-cell research being approved under either Obama or McCain, there will need to be some oversight.
So get over this stupidity already and let’s work as one. That is what America is about.
/rick.
“the worst blunder of his administration was to pave the way for this man and what promises to be the single largest peace time expansion of the Federal Government since the Great Depression,”
It would need offices on the moon to beat the bloat created by that fascist in the Oval Office now.
@rickw
Thank you, someone gets it. No one person, people or group is any more important than anyone else. Email me at uandme1019@gmail.com and I will send any of you something that really could work to benefit all. Will, don’t know, could it absolutely.
Steve Jobs for President.?
The days of Laissez-faire are over.
The days of Laissez-faire ended before any of us were born. What we’re going through right now is a failure of central planning. It didn’t work for the soviets, and it didn’t work for us, either.
Turns out that the Federal Reserve is no better at picking the right level for interest rates, than the soviets were at setting production quotas for wheat.
-jcr
Why shouldn’t this election be a referendum on George Bush when one of the candidates is promising to continue his policies?
Sorry to break it to you sunshine, but they BOTH are promising to continue his policies. They both voted for the bailout.
-jcr
If dollars translate into votes
My vote isn’t for sale. I think for myself despite the campaign propaganda.
Fsck Silicon Valley. I’d rather be Amish than associated with this.
Silicon Valley can kiss my f’n a’hole! God Damned liberal pieces of shit. Maybe we should just send all of our f’n jobs over to china now. And Apple leads the way. F U Apple, F U Steve P Jobs.
This is a sad day for the American way of life. Obama and the Democratic Congress will destroy this country. I’m amazed at the number of people that think that they’ll be taken care of by government.
We will go into a Depression. Obama is naive and arrogant and the white liberals have vindicated their guilt by having foisted an extremely unqualified black man of questionable character into the presidency.
You Right Wing Nut Jobs crack me up!
The country has FINALLY BEEN ALLOWED TO SPEAK and…
YOU LOSE!
Thank God that your ilk’s rain of ignorance, divisiveness and incompetence has finally come to an end!
Just stay out of our way! Watch and LEARN how INTELLIGENT people run a country!
My vote isn’t for sale. I think for myself despite the campaign propaganda.
Not wishing to be cynical, but everyone’s vote is for sale: what differs in each case is the price: the rich will sell their vote for politicians who preserve their wealth, the poor will sell their vote for anyone who promises social mobility or better public services, the enviromentalists, the military-industrial types and the evangelicals sell their votes to politicians who will support their special interests.
Fsck Silicon Valley. I’d rather be Amish than associated with this.
You let me know how that works out for you.
Oh, you won’t be able to.
Silicon Valley can kiss my f’n a’hole! God Damned liberal pieces of shit. Maybe we should just send all of our f’n jobs over to china now. And Apple leads the way. F U Apple, F U Steve P Jobs.
ZachCube,
Firstly, try decaffeinated.
Secondly, in common with the entire Western world, you’ve already sent a ludicrous amount of manufacturing and services East to China, Taiwan and India. And you’ve sent a shedload of money along with it.
The PRC sends us all container ships filled with goods and the US sends them back T-bills. It was the price of keeping inflation low. We all made a bargain with the devil and now you have to pay the price.
Well some of you guys have just voted to send a black guy called BA into the oval office. And some of you didn’t.
I guess some of you are “crazy fools”
“I aint gettin’ on no Plane!”
Bollocks, I knew being slightly dyslexic would make me look silly one day. The A is at the end of Obama, not at the beginning.
Oh well.
Arf.
Congrats to the democrats. Commiseration to the republicans.
Enjoy your new pres…
BMD x
I mean BMH!
It’s over. It’s really over. In 70 days or so. I guess a lot can happen between now and then, but congrats America, you made the right decision tonight. We’re all pulling for you. And excited for you.
I’m sure we will see a lot of great things to come. Tonight was just the beginning! What an amazing night!
This is a sad day for the American way of life. Obama and the Democratic Congress will destroy this country. I’m amazed at the number of people that think that they’ll be taken care of by government.
Maybe they don’t think they’ll be taken care of by the government.
Maybe they just feel that it’s time for America to rejoin a global community as a partner as opposed to a quasi-imperial power. Maybe they feel that the rolling back of regulation has gone too far and no longer serves the common good. And maybe the people who pay the bills in the US – check the states who are net contributors to the Federal budget – decided it was about time they got something for their money.
We will go into a Depression.
Well, you’re a little ray of sunshine!
Obama is naive and arrogant and the white liberals have vindicated their guilt by having foisted an extremely unqualified black man of questionable character into the presidency.
Yep, because having Sarah Palin one cheeseburger away from the presidency was a far better idea than having someone who knows how the US Constitution works.
Maybe that’s the main cause of the switch: maybe the population decided that they’d had enough of the Constitution being treated as “a damn piece of paper” and they’d like the country to be run by someone who at least gives the impression of caring about that document.
Of course, that might be naive optimism: but that’s arguably better than getting set for another four years of being cynically manipulated by one’s fears and doubts.
By the way, despite the fact that Obama refers to himself as black, it should be remembered that he is actually the product of an inter-racial relationship which should be a re-assurance unless you’re from that “one drop” mindset that would prefer him to be delivering your groceries so long as he didn’t come in the house.
Socialism…
As an American you have been living under socialism for 221 years or so…
Not communism, Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, but SOCIALISM. Look up the definition.
Do you build your own roads, provide for your own police and fire protection, build your parks and playgrounds for your children to play on or to participate in sports?
Oh, how about your hospitals and public schools and the local library?
No – you share in the expense with your fellow citizens unless you can figure a way to get out of it because you are a cheap a$$. BUT if you do share in those responsibilities to your community – then you are a socialist.
And if you listened to Obama’s speeches at all – he never proposed a welfare state or rob from the lazy rich and give to the lazy poor. He has always asked everyone – red or blue state – to serve the community.
I know that is a stretch because you would rather play games or avoid work around the house, etc… but that is what he has asked.
For all of you history buffs: During the Clinton Administration, how much of a deficit was left when he moved house? What was the treasury’s surplus? Who proposed and with the help of his now defeated crony pushed through the law that deregulated the financial and stock markets that now has you owing over 3 Trillion in debt – with no way to pay it back except with more debt? (hint – it wasn’t a Democrat) (FYI: no money is issued from the Federal Reserve without interest added. So, the money you borrow the pay for the money you borrow is paid with money you borrowed. Get it?
And that isn’t Obama’s fault.
So, you can whinge and beotch and complain OR you can roll your sleeves up with the rest of you fellow “prisoners” (as was so aptly said by McCain) and help solve this problem and press your elected officials to change how we are issued money in this country.
Or not.
But remember: Denial is not a river in Egypt and sooner or later we must needs solve the financial burdens that we have all inherited as Bush rides off to Paraguay and Cheney heads to the UAE. (Remember you read it here).
I am no conspiracy theorist. I just pay attention.
Ih and if you like fascism – just help the neocons keep all of the reags that have been passed since Bush came into power.
Cheers
@Rolleyes
And get ready for a whole new even higher level “ignorance, divisiveness and incompetence” form the community organizer. Don’t forget now you have socialism, marxism, facism, stomping on free speech etc. Be prepared to hand over your paycheck to Der Commissar Obama and his congress with a 9% approval rating. 9%…. Bush has 20%-30%, 9% laughable. You have no idea how bad these leftists are going to plunder you wallet. They are going to tax you to death, then re-distribute your wealth. This is after they get done sending your energy costs through the roof. The leftists don’t just tax you they tax everything around you, strangling business and individual liberties. In 4 years America will be begging to get out, but may not be able too because the game has been changed… ‘for your better good’ …… It’s the Peanut Farmer all over again, except this time he has the backing of some truly rotten people, who would like to destroy our values and CONSTITUTION. You really know nothing about this guy. Obama is a smooth talking one night stand. In a little while people will wake up and ask how did this happen??? The collusion of the Media to push this clown over the top is astounding. Congratulations, you were warned and didn’t listen. Assume position.
except this time he has the backing of some truly rotten people, who would like to destroy our values and CONSTITUTION
Sorry, would that be the same constitution that the Republican Party has collectively spat on for the last eight years or so.
I’d argue that the USA has collectively decided that the era of “presidency by signing statement” is over along with the era of the current Vice-President defining his very own branch of government. So actually the people are trying to return the country to the rule of law – no need to thank Democrat voters for this service, you’re welcome.