“President Obama is meeting tonight with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, among others,” Preston Gralla writes for Computerworld. “Given that the dinner is being hailed as a discussion of the president’s efforts to promote innovation, and not just as a dinner for leaders in Silicon Valley, why was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer left off the list?”
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.”
Read more in the full article here.
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.]
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.
““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.””
Mr. Obama is the president, not a dinner organizer or hostes whatever the reason and irrespective of the case, you idiot Preston Gralla.
““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.””
Mr. Obama is the president, not a dinner organizer or hostess whatever the reason and irrespective of the case, you idiot Preston Gralla.
“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.”
Once I quit laughing at this idea, it hit me…has it occurred to anyone that maybe innovation does live in the Silicon Valley…but doesn’t reside anywhere around Redmond?
Wait a minute. This blog has gone way off topic. The question was, why wasn’t Steve Ballmer invited to Obama’s innovation dinner?
The answer is have you ever seen that slob Ballmer eat? It’s not a pretty sight, let me tell you. Children run away screaming. Men have been known to upchuck. Pregnant women have miscarried.
You get the picture.
I think Ballmer-the-loser is not presentable enough or may be Ballmer-the-loser failed the Secret Service’s background check.
All the invited companies have massive capital/$$$$ stuck in foreign bank account. If the WH or Congress approve the 5% corp tax holiday, it will have positive consequence to all parties involved.
…Because Steve Ballmer was already invited to the White House back in January, you moronic zealots!
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-19/ballmer-blankfein-among-ceos-to-meet-obama-hu-at-white-house.html
Take it easy buddy
but that was just for comic relief
…and he was invited two weeks ago to lunch.
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/msft_dj-obama-meeting-with-microsoft-s-ballmer-amex-s-chenault-8-other-execs-754136.html
Inviting Ballmer? Come on! Don’t be ridiculous!PS As he was invited before, his arguments, probably, must have been of fewer interest and didn’t matched to serious questions.
The fact that Balmer was invited to a different meeting surely makes the author of this piece the moronic zealot, not the contributors on here, or is that analogy too difficult to handle?
The Democrats were the ones that started the monopoly case and the Republicans let Microsoft off the hook !
AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
FAIL!
I do think that Jeff Bezos should have been invited. Amazon has fundamentally changed how Americans shop and definitely driven down the cost for the consumer. If anybody doubts their importance they need look no further than Border’s. Amazon had a huge impact upon them.
Useless speculation. Here’s the real answer:
http://www.nndb.com/people/644/000022578/
“Party Affiliation: Republican”
Balmer can’t figure out how to get out of Finland!!!
Since he’s going to be spending so much time there, he probably had to have plans for the re-building of Espoo done up so he can figure our where all the new Nokisoft code writers will be housed…. Gulag style…
Ballmer is having too much fun sitting in saunas with pretty Finnair hostesses. At least he would then have an excuse to sweat in 200° dry heat, but it wouldn’t show so much.
Here is the while crew right here and you can see Steve from the back clearly.