MacDailyNews Take: Because it’s an innovation dinner, dummy. And, they already booked a creepy clown. Now, if there’s ever a dinner for buffoons who were destined for a lifetime of selling used Fords, but instead lucked into unbelievably fortunate dorm assignments…
Gralla, who writes for some hellacious Computerworld backwater blog called “Seeing Through Windows” – *gack* – continues, “Over at ZDNet, Larry Dignan has a list of other tech leaders he thought should have been invited to the dinner, including Ballmer, CEO of IBM Sam Palmisano, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.”
“Clearly, all these people, including Ballmer, were left out because the White House decided that geography would trump innovation,” Gralla writes. “But there’s symbolism at work here as well — the idea that innovation resides primarily in the Silicon Valley, which clearly isn’t the case. Obama would do well to host similar dinners throughout the country.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Unless Obama is planning on jumping around screaming and sweating profusely during his next major speech, Uncle Fester can’t offer him anything useful beyond a few laughs. We assume the point of the dinner is to explore ways of increasing productivity, not smothering it to death; to lead the world, not follow others around like a brain-damaged puppy dog. The country’s in enough trouble already. That’s why Steve Ballmer wasn’t invited to Obama’s innovation dinner, Preston.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]