“The United States need to be a leader in thought, design, and execution. Economic victory requires nothing less,” Yoshikami writes. “But is there a model America can follow? Is there a corporation that epitomizes innovation that can be a learning lesson for other companies? The answer is yes; Apple. Apple has demonstrated what can be done with visionary leadership and courageous creativity.”
Yoshikami writes, “It’s not unlike thinking 10 steps ahead in a chess match. Grandmasters that follow this path are the ones that win championships, not those that merely react to the current environment. Thinking ahead, and in a way that alters the product/service landscape, is the Apple way.”
“America must play to win and not rest on past successes. A new history begins now. The past is irrelevant. AMERICA MUST PLAY TO WIN starting today,” Yoshikami writes. “While the rest of the world may have been tempted to give up on the United States, they take the leader of the economic world lightly at their own risk. It takes discipline, commitment, and innovation; all of which America can summon if the desire to win is strong enough.”
Yoshikami writes, “Yes, this is this generations [sic] Sputnik moment; will America rise up and meet the challenge? We believe the United States will shock the world with it’s resilience. And we believe the challenge will be met. The alternative is second place and something America dislikes. Winning matters in America.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Debt-free Apple spends less money than it takes in and has banked a vast surplus for the future. America has a long, long, long way to go to be like Apple.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Arline M.” and “iWill” for the heads up.]
Empty platitudes by a woefully unprepared man mistakenly elected U.S. President are no substitute for getting out of the way and taking the governors off the mighty U.S. economic engine.
In order to pull that off, the White House needs a CEO like Steve Jobs… It ain’t got it!
Uh, the past is irrelevant? History begins now? This guy is incoherent.
Great thoughts from Yashikami, but the US is screwed anyway. The problem is the US is run by lawyers (majority of our national elected officials). Lawyers are not trained to think ahead. The whole basis of their profession is to react.
In contrast, China is run by engineers who are usually thinking about how to improve things and make things run better.
The US is like Microsoft, slowing dying a slow death, and China is like Apple. Sad, but true.
Biggest challenge is can the few who are motivated do enough to support the entitlement culture that so many have adopted?
Read the book “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future” by Daniel Pink. Right brainers like Steve Jobs, not Ivy League automatons (Balmer?), will rule the world.
@Journo –
“Mistakenly elected”?
There was no mistake. More than 100 million of your fellow citizens made a choice. For me, there was no OTHER choice.
You really think McCain and Palin would have made America better after two years? You think McCain is closer to Steve Jobs than Obama? Puh-lease…
Obama’s “Sputnik moment” – that of January 4, 1958, that is – arrives on November 8, 2011.
Obama could have done something meaningful and dealt with Social Security and Medicare and other entitlements, instead the ball-less wonder does nothing as usual. Go golfing instead.
Possessing no experience and no idea what makes American great is why Obama is a very poor U.S. President.
That verbal discharge was nothing more than a copy and paste of many past presidential speeches. Maobama and friends don’t believe in any of that. Just look at his actions and who he associates with. He is just scared he won’t get re-elected and be able to destroy the USA for 4 more years. He is a Commie-Marxist-Liar and was not born in the USA. This will come out. He has spent millions to keep his past from the US. No school records, no original birth certificate. Like his Grandmother said he was born in a hut in Kenya. Like the hut his dirt poor brother lives in there with no help from “compassionate” Maobama. We can’t wait to replace them all throughout all forms of government with solid conservatives. 2012 can’t come soon enough for his office vote.
USA = the United States of Apple.
Good ring to that.
Yes, China (and Apple) succeed by being tightly controlled from above. China is a nondemocratic nation with massive government intrusion into all parts of daily life, especially economic. Granted, the government control is responsible for the growth of their economy, but that does not mean we should become like them.
That was mostly spot on, except the part about “The past is irrelevant” makes no sense at all.
Without understanding history, you have no context, no concept or understanding for why anything happens, why things exists in the way they do. You are running around with your head cut off.
Hey Kenny, your tin foil hat has come lose.
Sadly, there’s only one Steve.
On the other hand, I don’t worry too much about the Chinese, as back in the 90s, we were worrying about the Japanese. Remember when Japan was the next big thing? China has even more structural problems than Japan. They have an even greater aging population problem than Japan. They have an even greater pollution problem. They have an even greater rural population problem. They have an even greater minority peoples problem. I’m not worried too much about the Chinese.
Then again, if things get really good over there, I can just go to my home in Shanghai. They just built a Carrefour and a subway stop a 1/4 mile away from my front door.
@First 2010….blow me. You and Journo should get married and move to another country as you are not happy in the one you live in.
I see a lot of negativity here. Sure its a rah rah speech but is the guy wrong? Perhaps more people should be talking this way? If more and more journalists keep broaching the subject, maybe our politicians may listen?
Witness the effect that the Tuscon shooting has had on civility in politics. Journalists reporting on the public’s unhappiness with the high level of political vitriole has had an effect on dampening it.
Didn’t Maobama convert NASA to a Muslim outreach program. I sure hope that his version of a “Sputnik” moment isn’t to keep helping Islam, his real religion. Everything that comes out of that guys mouth is an out and out lie.
@TrevX
I think you meant to say Kenny’s white sheet fell off his head.
Hey Booster,
We conservatives are positive in every way. Especially in voting you lunatic liberals out. Blow yourself dirt ball.
Nice race baiting Buster you slime ball.
Nice to see Apple finally getting some recognition for its excellence. I feel sorry for those using anything less than Apple all these years.
Ron Paul 2012: The Last Great Hope for America.
to add the political quarreling:
Anyone who thinks Sarah Palin would be a good President, or a good next-in-line-to-be president, shows astounding mental issues (delusional thinking, incompetency and/or ignorance). McCain’s terrible, terrible choice for VP alone discredits his entire capacity to make important decisions.
In some sense, America IS already a lot like Apple. We’ve sent all of our manufacturing jobs to China, too!
Eh, even if you want to domthe analogy of obama being like jobs, then congress is like a mass of cloned ballmers…..
I thought the speech was terrible. I think our leaders are clueless. And besides, didn’t the Obama white house say the recession was over in the summer of 2009????
Hey TrevX your Marxist public school brainwashing, Government Controlled Media brainwashing, and Hollywierd brainwashing has really taken hold. Pretty sad what a weak mind you have.
Nobama will be proven a complete fraud sooner than later. 5 states setting in motion new laws to require full original birth certificate and more to be eligible to run for president and be recognized on the state ballots. Good luck getting around that Maobama.
Apple = visionary leadership, and brilliant engineering guided by an exquisite understanding of user experience. Any idea how hard that is to find or teach?
In most businesses there is no interest in creating an environment that promotes innovative thought, or placing value on talent. For the last three decades American business school mantra has been this: bottom line this quarter…cut costs…don’t reward anyone but the top guys.
@WriterGuy: exactly.
Domthe isn’t a word, I guess my iPad decided not to do a space between do and the……..
@ Mikester
Sure. George W. was a paragon of truth, who did a great job of teaching his daughters to live a clean, virtuous life. Oh, and prior to 9-11 was the hardest working president ever.
Maybe it’s really the intolerant that are the liars and the ones holding America back by blaming it’s problems on race or religion.
“civility in politics” BWAAHAHAHAHA You are not very bright, nor observant.
Sure lots of baby kissing idle TALK about civility, followed by a rush to grab power, curtail rights and enact new restrictions on the public.
Yeah – Civility my ass. The donkeys are the kings of incivility. Always talking about tolerance until you oppose their ideas. Same for the Elephants..They all keep you fools fighting while they and their cronies bleed America Dry.
The two party system is a sham, if the last 30 years of partisan bickering, & general inability to get things done hasn’t shown you this, you aren’t paying attention.
Start voting Independent/Libertarian/Green and lets disrupt this good old boys club and give the country back to the people.
Those who want to say this guy is nuts, or that it’s a WH/political issue are being incredibly simple-minded. More later @ macmania.us/lehnbo
Obama is right, the USA must become the high technology powerhouse if it’s to improve it’s standard of living in the future. It might not have been his greatest speech but he wasn’t lying. Just telling like it is.
The problem is that the majority of US citizens, black and white, are very badly educated and hold extreme religious and political views that hamper development of society.
Vast swathes of the US electorate politically inept and couldn’t tell truth from deception. Now you know why Fox News is so popular.
How about following Apple’s example of hoarding real live cash, being debt free, and NO deficit spending. That would go a long way
MDN MW = steps as in Baby steps
*facepalm*
It never stops with you MDN does it?
The Chinese create nothing, but boy they sure do make stuff well.
to add the political quarreling:
Anyone who thinks Obama would be a good President, or Biden a good next-in-line-to-be president, shows astounding mental issues (delusional thinking, incompetency and/or ignorance). The Democrats terrible, terrible choice for a President alone discredits their entire capacity to make important decisions. All the while bankrupting the US and destroying the constitution, rights, private property, capitalism. While worshipping China. Craziness.
“America needs to be like Apple” – forgetting that almost everything Apple “makes” is designed by Apple, but built by others overseas.
“Possessing no experience and no idea what makes American great is why Obama is a very poor U.S. President.” Look around the current administration. Few of them have any experience creating or running a private business. It’s mostly lawyers, activists, many who have only worked for government, and a smattering of university professors.
Only now is Obama starting to bring people on board who have business experience. But even GE’s Imelt brings with him the stench of crony capitalism. GE got a lot of TARP money based on its ownership of a small bank out west, and structured itself to make billions out of carbon trading – hardly the basics of strengthening economic America. Imelt is no Jack Welch.
I am from Ireland. I wish Ireland was like Apple, right now we are like Vista….totally broken
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grandmasters DO NOT think 10 moves ahead in a chess game.
You can really tell who the liberal Marxists are scared to death of. Fox News???? The only Fair and Balanced big news operation. Who do you trust PMSNBC where Comcast just fired Keith Olberscum? The NYSlimes? ABC, NBC, CBS? NPR? Give us a break. We know that you absolutely can’t trust the flat out propaganda coming out of those hellish places. Sarah Palin would run circles around all of you fools on the left. I hope your nightmare comes true and she winds up being the next president or Michelle Bachman. They are true leaders. Unlike any Panty Wastes you liberals vote in.
It has nothing to do with the leader, it has all to do with the people. It used to be that regardless of who the President was, we as Americans would get behind and push in the direction they’re pushing. Now, regardless of who holds the office, there will be those that could help things get better but, wary that it may make the “other side” look good, will instead do nothing or worse, push opposite or make moves to undermine.
I can guarantee than whomever you THINK would be the perfect candidate to lead this country to greatness would never be able to actually do so.
3 pages comments … i see it coming …
@ Kenyan
I thought it was Bush that passed the Patriot Act, thereby destroying the “constitution [and] rights.”
Maobama absolutely falls under the category of destruction of the Constitution, USA, Capitalism, Private Property, Rights, Free Speech, on and on. We know there are a huge number of people that could do a much better job than any of the liberal and RHINO fools holding office now. Stop covering for the Marxists.
@Booster,
Yeah, because the likes of Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Beck, Hannity, Palin, Bachmann, Levin, Savage, etc. are the poster children for good vibes, moderation and courage.
/sarcasm
I’m a big Apple fan-boy, but please. Apple’s manufacturing is all done in China. How’s that a good solution for what’s wrong with the U.S?
Apple is the banner child in how people should be conducting their own lives (and since corporations are now considered people by the moronic Robert’s court, the analogy is appropriate) – develop your full potential, offer something better, sell your labor for the highest dollar, spend judiciously, ask for nothing from government than protection from unscrupulous predators, have no debt, save conservatively and treat people with respect. What is not to love about Apple and that approach to life?!
You know, the dang government is blocking our ability to innovate and stifling our economic growth. A company like Apple could never succeed in a country like ours.
Oh wait……
@Kenyan
You flatter me with your imitation. Not the substance, however.
Biden is a solid candidate. Nothing wrong with that’s not common among Democrats or politicians. Sure he’s not as well read as Sarah Palin. How many newspapers did she tell Katie Couric she reads? Oh, yeah, infinity. And how far away is Russia from mainland USA according to her? Oh, yeah, within eye site. And what advice did she give to all her Twitter followers about how to remove Gabrielle Giffords from office? Oh, yeah, fire then reload.
In a country where 1% of it’s population has control of over 50% of all the wealth, you know we have a big problem. Money is power and control. This 1% own the message, and they also control the status quo of our nation. Once you realize this, you get to see the big picture. People bicker about what party is in power, well the really people in power, don’t get elected, they never have and they never will.
The monumental stupidity of the faux conservatives posting here is astounding. I’m not a conservative, but neither are the likes Jillian et al. They are merely “ditto-heads;” the name says it all. By the way, Jillian, Ron Paul is a libertarian with integrity; Palin is an attention whore who excels at baiting and collecting speaking fees.
That quip about Sarah – I hope that was suppose to be funny. As bad as the elected officials are in DC today – and they are nothing to write home about – I can not imagine SP doing any better. In fact, I’m sure she would do much worst.
mw: seen As in I’ve seen the light and its not Sarah Palin!
Ever get the suspicion that TrevX, Wanda, Kenyan, Jillian, Mikester and perhaps other UNREGISTERED commenters that spew this antiObama crap are all the same pathetic, cowardly, effeminate runt?
C’mon little boy, does your parents know what you are doing alone in your room with your laptop?
The problem is almost all Executives in the US & Canada get superb compensation regardless of performance and if they screw up royally they get Millions to leave. There is literally no incentive for them to do better or take the risks necessary to make giant leaps forward. Add this to the culture of Stock Markets that require quarterly improvement, something that holds back long term investment and thinking.
America needs to be like Apple – outsourced to the Chinese.
Uh huh.
@Kayan: “Anyone who thinks Sarah Palin would be a good President, or a good next-in-line-to-be president, shows astounding mental issues (delusional thinking, incompetency and/or ignorance). McCain’s terrible, terrible choice for VP alone discredits his entire capacity to make important decisions.”
No more mental issues then the millions that voted for that inept, Socialist “Spread the Wealth” mentality, unqualified dolt currently occupying the WH.
Is Palin ready for the Presidency? Sure, she’s qualified… over 35 years of age and can present her original birth certificate with actual Doctor signatures (that’ll rattle some with ‘astounding mental issues’)…
Seriously, let’s settle this once and for all… Obama and his “Spread the Wealth” mentality, with both houses of Congress controlled by Liberals that eagerly followed ‘lock, stop and barrel’ with his one trillion dollar stimulus, Biden’s summer of recovery tour, Obama’s worldwide apology tour, the ending of offshore drilling in LA, gas over $3 and climbing and where are the Dems and their complaints now, Gitmo still open one year after Obama said it will be closed, new Health Care entitlement program to match the great success of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid…, increased regulations, bureaucracy, and increased, overpaid gov’t workers to staff them, etc. had their chance… The economy is no better than what it was when he took office.
On that poor economic backdrop, let’s see what a Freedom Lovin’ Palin, Drill Here, Drill Now, limited government presidency with a Conservative (not Republican)/TEA Party Congress, in both houses, and their concurring philosophical view and policies would effect things? Oh and we’ll need the Press to abate for her term because we know how the press covers for Libs and Dems, but skew and lie when reporting on Conservatives/TEA Party & Republicans and will have it as their one mission in life, if Palin were President, to destroy her the “Rather, Brokaw, Jennings” newscast way.
Then we can see that it’s not the person, but the philosophy that matters and can take note as to which one has the positive effect and then can shut up everyone, myself included, on the political debate on this and other forums!
Agreed? If not, what are you so afraid of? The chance that your whole viewpoint of the world might be proven wrong?!
Palin 2012… Let’s settle this debate once and for all!
Cool, another MDN politics thread full of inane prattle by people posing as conservatives.
“America needs to be like Apple” – forgetting that almost everything Apple “makes” is designed by Apple, but built by others overseas.
Yes, this is true, but they SELL ipads, iphones, ipods, and macs to them at very high profit margins, and this brings the money spent BACK to the US coffers. The difference between Apple and other mega companies, is that Apple owns Apple, and they DO NOT spend their money on corporate lobbyists and live off the greed principles. They basically have a list price, and that is that . Companies such as Halliburton pays lobbyists, move their base out of the US, and then looks for ways to overcharge our own govt. Corporations need to invest in OUR structure, not in their own.
If Obama had it his way, a lot more would be done but when you are in a system where great ideas are replaced with politics and idiots, things go down the tubes, like Microsoft.
Because, if the U.S. was to be like Apple, the president would control everything like Steve controls Apple.
He would have the ability to see what is good for America and move people forward who would otherwise be content being complacent, (Microsoft).
In order to have a great government, we have to enable our leaders to lead not drag them down. The President is employed by us, we chose him to do a job, let him do it or shut up. Americans ought to stand behind their leaders instead of telling him what to do as if we know how. Same goes to the republicans. Let him and help him do his job and stop whining like babies. We elect republican officials and democrats to lead not be future cast members for Jersey Shore that spend their time arguing instead of doing a real job.
We can no longer be like Walmart, (big and cheap) we have to invest heavily in ourselves and our future and that is what our presidents wants. It is what Apple has done. It is good for America.
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
Wait that was Hillary Clinton… I guess that only applies to Liberal Kooks!
And what does Registering on this forum or not have anything to do with the issue?
I bet if your sorry tail wasn’t out in AZ protesting Gov. Brewer and the Immigration Bill she signed into law, you were there in protesting in spirit… Yeah, show the love for “Illegal Immigrants” but trash the “Unregistered Forum Users”… Sounds typical, buster. Sounds typical! Go back to your momma’s basement yourself and login to your favorite website that you pay homage and devotion to, Media Matters…
@Journo
Indeed, Bush was so great about “getting out of the way.” No child left behind, for instance, was certainly not a federal mandate levied on the states…or was it? And the Medicare prescription card with the doughnut hole. Anything with a hole is OK, I suppose. And the federal government got smaller, didn’t it? We did not spend trillions of additional dollars on the U.S. military and create a whole new generation of widows, orphans, and veteran’s with terrible injuries, did we.
You are a clueless twit. And I doubt that you have any concept of where the “governors” or the gas pedal is on the “mighty U.S. economic engine.” Economic progress at the expense of the environment and quality of life is a losing proposition. Until the GOP acknowledges the importance of protecting the environment, I cannot support it.
By the way, I *am* a fiscal conservative. Too bad neither of our national political parties have been fiscally conservative in practice for most of the past three decades.
What are you posing as Macromancer?
America is owned by the Chinese at the moment. iPhone is made in China, iPad made in Taiwan. What are you celebrating? Do you realize that your lifestyle is based on living on borrowed money from China? Did you not know that China plans to replace USD with RMB by 2018? Maybe in 2020 Chinese designed Pads and Phones are made cheaply in the US.
Apple is a dictatorship, America is not.
@Booster,
Yeah, because the likes of Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Beck, Hannity, Palin, Bachmann, Levin, Savage, etc. are the poster children for good vibes, moderation and courage.
Thank the good Lord for the people you mention above. They are lightyears better people than anyone on the Marxist left. You Marxists need to stay the hell out of our pocket books, rights, constitution, and lives. What the hell makes you think you know better what is better for us than we do ourselves you sickos. Liberals were always the picked on losers you growing up. And they were picked on for good reason. Now they want to get back at the world. It’s amazing how many communists post on this site. Sick.
The Law by Frederick Bastiat spells it all out for you brain dead democrats.
Conservative government take over in 2012. Read it and weep losers.
@Listen buster…
Debate is a good thing and I do listen to other people’s point of view. However I also believe in maturity and civility and HONESTLY trying to understand the other person’s point of view. That is being open-minded.
You do not debate, you call people names (kooks, …you, presumably (and I recognize I could be wrong here) are here just to spit out childish rants. The unregistered names, to reiterate, is a reference to the fact that I suspect that many of these rants seem similar and I presume come from the same person. This also reflects childish behaviour.
Get my drift?
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One final thing….I am not American but I do admire many Americans.. There is a lot of good in the USA and I have hopes that you guys will start to moderate your views a little and start to be less divided in the future. THis article bring up this point….to become a world economic power again. Its slipping from your hands and all everyone does is bitch rather than say…what can we do?
Buster has serious mental issues. Hope Maobama care can help him before he hurts himself. That goes for King Smell too, the Marxist pretending to be a conservative. Yeah right. Stuff it libs.
“Is Palin ready for the Presidency?”
Well let’s see. She’s an airheaded bimbo with an IQ of -10 who doesn’t know what to do or say without her staff of political nannies telling her.
Hell yes she’s ready for the Presidency! If the last several elections have taught America anything, it’s that things like brains, talent, independence, and command over the English language are not part of the job description.
“Obama and his “Spread the Wealth” mentality”
Obama has the same “Make the Rich Richer” mentality as George W. He just candy-coats it in a slightly different flavour. As will whoever succeeds him.
“Freedom Lovin’ Palin, Drill Here, Drill Now, limited government presidency with a Conservative (not Republican)”
Because there’s nothing more conservative than indescriminately drilling for oil! Oh wait a minute, a conservative philosophy would be to not go nuts with the drilling. A liberal philosophy would be to drill here, drill now.
@Frank and Captain America…
Thanks gents for helping me prove a point about civility. I strongly suspect that your average conservative who looks at your comments and finds it as distainful as I (I assume again you are the same person…there cannot be that many kiddies running around loose on computers during recess).
By the way, what makes you think I am a liberal..or communist as you like to say? Maybe I am just….an adult!
Bluster is not American, that must make him/it a democrat. That’s how Maobama and friends play themselves off, anti-america, apology tours and so on. Maobama would love to be able to dictate as Steve Jobs can running a corporation. The problem is the constitution doesn’t allow for it. You know that ancient document that all you libtards hate so much.
Americans do not like you Bluster. And that is a monumental understatement!
Buster, you do not have one once of civility in your Marxist body.
Buster your postings spell out exactly who you are.
Hey Palin 2012,
Where did you find the results of Palin’s IQ tests? Are they published somewhere like NoBama’s birth certificate or college records? I wonder what Biden’s IQ is. The absolute biggest idiot to occupy the VP spot since Al “Global Warming SCAM” Gore. You liberals think you are brilliant. The fact is you aren’t. You just think you are.
Buster you are not here to debate anyone, just to spout liberal propaganda.
Can’t wait to see how the new state laws demanding original birth certificate copies for presidential candidates turns out for 2012! This is going to be fun watching Obama become ineligible in 5 plus states……….. Google it commies.
Hawaii Gov. Admits There Are No Obama Birth Records In Hawaii…
It’s interesting that the “space race” was mentioned as a past example, because that is part of “this generations” solution.
Instead of just giving away billions of dollars in “stimulus spending,” that money needs to be spent on projects of the scale that only the government of a large developed nation can undertake. Those projects should also have lasting economic value.
The nation that can effectively exploit the resources of space is the nation that leads in the future. There are many important resources, but the key resource is ENERGY. With access to abundant and cheap energy, you can do anything. For example, you can de-salinate seawater in large-enough quantity to make a difference. With more fresh water, you can farm more land and grow more food. You can take recycling to a point that is currently economically not viable. You can lower the cost of manufacturing production in a way that does not involve cheap labor. The possibilities are boundless…
With the exception of hydro, geothermal, and nuclear (which all have significant limitations), major Earth-based energy resources are running out (or will eventually run out). And they expensive. There is virtually limitless potential for energy (and other resources) from space. The U.S. and Russia are far ahead in space technology. Let’s exploit that advantage while we are still ahead.
BORN IN THE USA?
10 states now developing eligibility-proof demands
107 Electoral College votes controlled by Arizona, Texas, Connecticut, others
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=255965
Obama’s State of the Union Was Tantamount to Plagiarism
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/alvin-felzenberg/2011/01/26/obamas-state-of-the-union-was-tantamount-to-plagiarism
so much for that speech he made. pathetic!
Wasn’t there something in the news recently about Italian scientists supposedly developing cold fusion?? There’s your cheap power.
@Ken1w
I agree. Even on earth it is calculated that in 6 months, the amount hitting the earths surface = the total of all of the Earth’s non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined.
That only represents a certain percentage of what gets through (30% alone is reflected back into space)
Energy is power. The US is a technological powerhouse…the opportunity to take bake economic supremacy is now.
The US should throw more money at it (another sputnik moment?).
We need to be more like Apple and our internet access has to be more like South Korea’s.
I intentionally did not read any of the comments for fear of being aggravated by right-wingnuts who go totally off message as well as distort via ignorance and hatred the truth.
I bet the lame stream media paid no attention to any of this extremely important news…..
Mystery on the Border as ‘Bomber’ Book Found
EXCLUSIVE: Iranian book celebrating suicide bombers found in the desert near Arizona’s border with Mexico
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/27/iranian-book-celebrating-suicide-bombers-arizona-desert/
Way to lock down that border Obama. We feel so safe. We know you are only worried about Tea Partiers. Keep copying what other presidents said and pretending it’s your words.
Way to keep your head in the sand negative auramac. The truth hurts doesn’t it.
Obama’s Message to America: The Era of Big Government is Back, Now Help Me Pay For It
Sarah Palin on Thursday, January 27, 2011
The President’s State of the Union address boiled down to this message: “The era of big government is here as long as I am, so help me pay for it.” He dubbed it a “Winning The Future” speech, but the title’s acronym seemed more accurate than much of the content.
Full article: http://on.fb.me/i97JpQ
Hey aurasmac,
What about the horrible comments made by the left wing nuts??? You left them out. Or is it you only like their lying comments??
Yeah Palin really seams like she doesn’t know what’s going on around her. NIce try comrades trying to paint her as dumb. She runs circles around communists.
Yeah Palin really seams like she doesn’t know what’s going on around her. NIce try comrades trying to paint her as dumb. She runs circles around communists.
Yeah Palin really seams like she doesn’t know what’s going on around her. NIce try comrades trying to paint her as dumb. She runs circles around communists.
Considering that a bowling ball is sharper than Palin, it’s a safe bet to say her IQ isn’t too high. You think somebody who could be outwitted by a doorknob is intelligent. What does that say about you?
Also, I thought my comment made it petty clear I’ve got no love for Bush III… Sorry, I mean Obama or his administration. But I guess the grunting apes the GOP hires to astroturf for them ain’t too big on the reading comprehension, eh?
“GRRAAAAAWR!! YOU SAY BAD THING ABOUT STUPID MANFACE LADY! *UHUHUH* LIBEEERRALL! LIIIIIIBEEEERRAAAAAAALL!!!”
I remain amazed by turpitude of the faux conservatives posting here. The best description I’ve seen is that it’s merely “willful ignorance of the intellectually lazy.” Shakespeare said it best, “Angels and ministers of grace defend us!”
I remain amazed at the number of Marxists posting here. Truly brain dead sheeple.
Let’s see Obama can’t make a speech without a teleprompter and the very few times he tries to speak without one he comes off sounding like the most uneducated moron ever elected President. He pick Joe “Plugs” Biden, the dimmest wit to be VP in a long time. He lies left and right and changes position every time the wind blows. The guy can’t be defended. He has not proven he is a real US citizen. Yeah keep trying to run red herrings with false comments about Palin genius.
If United States wanna be like “an” Apple they must want to be more product-oriented and not money-oriented. Expanding product-orientation to a “statehood kind a sense”, I’d say, that United States should stop invading poor countries with the mission of democratization, believing that make everybody think democracy is the best thing, is the best thing to do at all.
Instead, they should get their hands dirty on how they act to represent the idea of democracy. Because now their democracy looks like hell: guns on the streets, prison landscape, lack of health care…, Fox News, O’Reilly Factor… and all sorts of this stupid Manufacturing Consent all around.
America! Listen! Remember! And don’t You forget it. Just those two bulletpoints.
– Nobody likes you anymore;
– Nobody need you as you are now.
You stupid, arrogant. But cool – play this!
Ps. Obama, btw, is seen at least as the guy who ain’t done anything worst than the other “fickers” YTD – respect him! Love him! What does it difference he isn’t catholic. That’s even better for your heads. You should only kick his arse to get him to work – “lazy bastard”.
kurtvonnegut,
You are one twisted, mentally disturbed soul. America could give a flying crap what you and the rest of the world think. We didn’t invade small countries to spread democracy. Once there for other reasons we felt it our duty to set them up that way to give their people a better chance. What they choose to do with that chance is up to them. You kurt can go to hell.
Damn, that’s some hardhitting stuff from somebody who very obviously has no idea what a Marxist is. Applause.
“Let’s see Obama can’t make a speech without a teleprompter and the very few times he tries to speak without one he comes off sounding like the most uneducated moron ever”
Oh, just like Palin then. Remind me again, why do we passionately hate Obama even though he’s been doing nothing that the GOP’s beloved Dubya wouldn’t have done? Ah, that’s right. Democrat.
And why do we love Palin? …Yes, now I remember. Weak rightwing subservient female. Given a “tough” rebel exterior persona by speechwriters, interior made of obedience and pudding. The empty-headed dreamgirl of many a feminism-hating, phony “conservative”‘s fantasies.
@Auramac
Don’t be put off by the right wing nutbars on here, I firmly believe it is one or two at best. You can see it in USNews or Rambo’s writing. Its repetitive and utilizes much of the same sentence structure.
As I said before, a pathetic childish little kid who is posting to stir crap up. I also think he has a Palin fetish….probably wasn’t weaned properly.
aurasmac,
75% of Americans do not like liberal-socialism. You shouldn’t be surprised about the posts. They reflect reality.
Sherlock Bluster,
Keep dreaming about conspiracy theories. The facts are the facts. And you and your comrades are pathetic left wing nutbars.
Buster,
Please tune into http://www.marklevinshow.com and he is at this minute taking apart Mr. Obamaninajad’s speech. You could actually learn something listening to Mark.
He also Podcasts his shows on iTunes in case you miss one or want to listen the next day. The cost, it’s free. Priceless actually. He was just talking about The Law by Frederick Bastiat.
Hopefully the commies in charge won’t destroy the US to the point where even Apple Inc. won’t be able to operate here anymore.
This site is so much fun when it’s getting political! I do have to admit that as a citizen from main land europe especially the comparisons of Obama voters to leftists and even marxists are particularly hilarious. Obama isn’t a communist, not even a ‘lefty’. He’s in the middle of the political spectrum at best.
Besides that, I hope the political right gets it’s thing done. They’ve been tearing apart US education for decades and will continue to do so. The first signs are already there of the US loosing it’s name as a superpower, the true impact of this is going to show itself in the coming years. Have fun!
btw. Excuse me for grammatical/spelling errors if there are some to be found, I tried my best but English is not my native language.
JWaltman,
Barrack Osama is as Marxist as it gets. You really have no clue what you are talking about. And we conservative Americans do not compare the way we run our country to the disaster that the rest of the world is. So keep laughing and being confused. Don’t forget to clean the drool off of your Euro-tee-shirt.
@Nasree
Perhaps you should look up the definition of Marxism and Communism before you start flinging the lable around so liberally. You tell me which Marxist would endorse bailing out the foundations of the capitalist establishment i.e Banks , Insurance companies , and Auto makers. Your political naivete is only trumped by your stupidity and lack of vision.
@Nasree
You are exactly what I meant, you have no clue what communism is.
And you can think of the rest of the world what you want, but what you think doesn’t need to be the truth. At least here (The Netherlands) we have lower crime rates, lower debt, lower rate of homicides, universal and cheaper health care (you might be getting this too though), good social welfare..etc.
It’s funny you think the rest of the world is a total disaster though, as if “the rest of the world” is one thing. And of course you compare it to other countries, you don’t want to be worse would you?
Can you give an example of how other 1st world countries as a whole are doing so much worse then the USA? Or are you talking about countries like Ireland and Greece being in debt? Like in the USA some states are in trouble?
Besides this all, I think a bit more respect could be show to Europe and it’s citizens.
Can you please name some Marxist ideas that Obama has? I could be wrong about this and would love to be shown otherwise.
Apple is not a dictatorship, Apple is a corporation. Dictatorships need not adhere top laws they don’t like. Dictatorships are rarely benevolent although even the worst dictatorships may have had some benevolent aspect to them. It amazes me some of the idiotic vitriol comming out of some of the people that post here on both sides of the fence. Forget where Apple manufactures because if it wasn’t China it would be somewhere else. The message in the state of the union seemed to be we need more out of the box thinking from our leaders of corporate industry rather than trying to just create schemes to wring more money out of tired ideads that do nothing to grow real wealth.
Correction: America needs to be more like China, if they want to stay competitive in the new world order that’s to happen within 20 years.
Bobchr,
Maobabma didn’t do a bailout he did a take over and give away to the Unions. It’s government motors now.
It’s all being done in steps all over the place. The intent is to collapse the system and remake it in Maobama’s communist wonderland. Only you dense fools wouldn’t notice. The rest of the US is on to it.
bkire,
great idea, brilliant. be more like red China. that wonderful place full of freedom. kiss my ass you idiot.
@ JWaltman
I think Amsterdam is a wonderful place. Last time I was there, I spent an hour just sitting in front of the Night Watch at Rijksmuseum.
Don’t worry about “Nasree”, “Larry”, “At the Dimwit Socialists”, and their ilk. They really are nothing more than an intellectually and morally bankrupt minority. Even though the center in the US has moved significantly to the right, enough so that Eisenhower would be tarred a liberal, there is still a core of honest, logical people who will support the administration. Contrary to blatherings of the faux conservatives here, the President’s centrist ‘State of the Union’ speech garnered a better than 83% approval/favorable rating, the Fox News noise machine notwithstanding.
The left has moved so far left that they can’t hide their intentions anymore. The left of today would hate JFK. End game is communism period. You Marxists won’t state what the end game is because you are afraid that will be the end of you. We’re on to you and we won’t stop putting a stop to it. School boards, local town boards, state, national, judges. We are going to forgo the private sector to take you freaks out of power. It’s happening all around us right now and won’t stop until we put you commies back out of power. Good riddance.
No conservative is saying that we don’t like the scenery in Europe or anywhere else in the world. We just hate your ways of life.
@ Hank.
Could you please explain “We just hate your ways of life.”? What is this “european -and elsewhere- in the world way of life” you mention?
Did you meant to say you hate the way people are living all over the world, except in the USA? You really just said this, this is a pretty bold and big opinion. So why do you hate the way of living of everyone in the world except for US citizens? (Although I assume you mean only the people that agree with your political point of view, no democrats allowed)
JWaltman,
I assume what Hank is talking about is your anti-US lifestyles. Anti-capitalism, anti-private property, anti-rights, anti-individual, etc. Democrats want to turn the USA into the rest of world. Preferably the worst communist dictatorship you can think of. That is the end game for them.
@8^þ
I hope you are right, not even that, I know you are right! Problem is, you and people alike seems to be getting in a bigger minority, it’s a shame. The USA is still a country with great potential but it used to be so much more, the USA used to be the epitome of knowledge, science and innovation but not anymore.
And for some people here. I don’t hate the USA, not at all! Your country has been of great importance of our worlds history in the last century, it has been the engine to get us all to this era of information & technology, it was also our savior from Hitler, how could I not like the USA?
Even though I might not agree with a lot of people from there, I do have respect for what its people have done.
I’m only explaining my concern for it, the USA used to be governed by reason and forward thinking. Nowadays it seems to be governed by superstition and trying to keep thinking where it is. It’s a shame of such a country.
@ Natman
Anti-Captilism : Europe is capitalist, free market. If you think it ain’t so, please explain.
Anti- Private Property : Why is Europe against this? I have my own apartment. What do you mean?
Anti-Rights : People here have more rights then in the USA, Gay people can marry- woman can have a legal abortion. Free travel between most countries. What rights do I miss?
Anti Individual: What do you even mean with this? People can at least be atheist without problem here, or be gay.
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? I’ve seen FOX items about Europe (and Netherlands/Amsterdam) which where not even painfully wrong, just big fat lies. Do you know Europe from FOX? Maybe you have real life experience from here, but if it that is so, I’m really curious where you went.
@ Natman, I know you werent attacking me, just to be clear. Just making a point. Although I think it’s not helping
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So all that is left from either side is mudslinging? This is the state of the US today?
Very well written and interesting article. Rug Cleaning Canberra
The only people who accuse Obama of being a communist, Marxist, or socialist are dipshits who have no clue at all what communism, Marxism, or socialism are.
Is he attempting to wrest control of the government away from the wealthiest 1% of America and give power to the people? No. His interests lie in corporate wellfare and maintaining the plutocracy.
Yet you’re saying that Obama’s is trying to collapse the system in order to create a “communist wonderland”…A place in which he himself would cease to have all of his money, power, and influence.
You’re so dimwitted it hurts.
I followed his speech of the Union, the other day, and undoubtedly, Obama gives the best indication of the USA since ages.
Hope US citizen have the capacity to appreciate to, finally, have a very smart and reality conscious president…
You foreigners are clueless. Maobama and comrades would be able to keep their money. They have made over 700 exemptions for there new illegal take over of our World Class health care system that will be over turned eventually. You world citizens are so brainwashed that you don’t even realize how taken over your lives are by the government. You probably like having some “elitist” tell you how and what to do. Pathetic. We Americans don’t live that way. Maobama wants us to be like you the problem is we don’t want to be anything like you. You speak of trying to keep things the way they were???? We’re trying to keep the best system on Earth from being destroyed by people like you. You need to read “The Law” by Frederick Bastiat available at Amazon for pennies and educate yourselves.
Great posts conservatives!
@ JimmyJackNYC
What do you mean with elitist? Let me help you here.
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e·lite
[ih-leet, ey-leet] Show IPA
–noun
1.
( often used with a plural verb ) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
e·lit·ism
[ih-lee-tiz-uhm, ey-lee-] Show IPA
–noun
1.
practice of or belief in rule by an elite.
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Is it really that bad to have the best option possible governing the country?
This is from dictionary.com, maybe you have a different definition? And if so, where did you get this from?
I hope you are not just parroting right wing propaganda without actually using your own brain to evaluate their assertions.
Good luck with your “best system on Earth” though.
JWaltman, Please stop embarrassing yourself and quit while your behind.
Boy, talk about low information posters. This thread is just nonsense. Are the primary readers of MDN actually a bunch of racist 13 year olds?
America is not Apple and will never be. Apple is driven by logic, reason and goals that extend beyond “making sure Obama is a one term president.” It includes all comers on the basis of their abilities, not their race or sexual proclivities.
One earlier poster opined that Apple had actual cash and America should try that. Good thought, except when America was heading that direction at the end of the Clinton Administration, Bush came in and said “if the government is taking in excess money (paying down its debt) then taxes are too high”. So he reduced revenue. That would be like Apple saying “We’re making money on every item we sell, so let’s start reducing prices until we start losing money.”
You twerps are clueless.
Talk about full of crap! Your take on history is so far off base it’s delusional. The Republican congress was balancing the budget. Then 9/11 happened from Clinton’s lack of terrorist intelligence. You effing RACIST. Liberals are the biggest racists of all. Pitting everyone against each other and stirring up jealousy to with the pions to get the liberal elite more power.
To the Eurotrash, We left your hell hole life style to create the USA. The last thing we want to do is emulate you. Maobama wants to because he and his fellow Marxists are out to take down the US and recreate it modeled after China or Cuba. Everyone, I mean everyone is on to this crap now. 2012 will be fun at the voting booths.
@ “@Lurker”
You’ve got a nice revisionist view of history. Would you like a couple of slices of Wonder Bread to go with your baloney?
Hate to comment but,
“Obama’s “Sputnik moment” – that of January 4, 1958, that is – arrives on November 8, 2011.
Obama could have done something meaningful and dealt with Social Security and Medicare and other entitlements, instead the ball-less wonder does nothing as usual. Go golfing instead.
Possessing no experience and no idea what makes American great is why Obama is a very poor U.S. President.”
It is clear that you mistake a President with a King or Dictator. The President cannot make laws. They are created in the House and passed by the Senate. Sadly, many of todays politicians just want to go back to the good old days…. which will not work as those days have come and gone.
Today is the good old days of the future. We must look ahead…. not back.. Does Apple look back and try to live in the past… ???
Just a though,.
en
Maobama sucks and so do you Marxists. 8p your version of history is on acid. Never happened the way you fantasize about. 2012, here we come to vote in another landslide of conservatives.
@Hank the Tank
You. wrong, Hank. I pretty normal. Don’t send me to hell. I’m looking the same as the others here. That’s what people think, if they have to live in that mess. By what law, I’m asking, you think America “felt it their duty to set them up that way to give their people a better chance”? I’m not asking about right to have a feelings in that matter, I’m asking why you act based on that feelings. Who gave you the right? You yourselves. And then, : “What they choose to do with that chance is up to them”. Oh really? Because what, because they did not want to be led by you by the hand? If you’d be a little more sophisticated which I belive you are not, you’d know that America, The Government, wanted to put their dirty hands on their oil. That is why you go for the war at first place. But they are telling you lies that they do it for the people. And you belive them. How can somebody not see that. Please, I strongly recommend you this document