“Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ widow, will attend Tuesday’s State of the Union speech as a guest of First Lady Michelle Obama,” Cromwell Schubarth reports for Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
“She has been active in education reform and non-profits, heading the Emerson Collective, which helps to fund such activities,” Schubarth reports. “Powell Jobs is on the boards of Teach for America, KQED, New America Foundation, Stanford Schools Corp. and is also on the advisory board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.”
Schubarth reports, “She is also a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions, which works with the White House on education and job creation.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Apple CEO blasts teacher unions, says US schools are ‘unionized in the worst possible way’ – February 16, 2007
DISGRACE!! Obama’s re-election Pawn! Apple stands for everything Obama doesn’t! ONE TERM PRESIDENT!!
iMaki: for once in your life show a little class and take your head out of your political pie-hole.
Apple:
• American Exceptionalism
• Hard Work
• Capitalism
Obama is diametrically opposed to all of those things.
I disagree.
I disagree with your disagreement!
I am diametrically opposed to your attempts to blame others for your problems. And iMaki, Obama will be President for another term, nothing you can do about it….
I’m a Democrat and I think Obama is a lying sack of sh*t. However I’m glad Mrs Jobs is actively involved in projects to make life better for people, no matter what I or anyone else thinks of the president.
Is that what Rush told you to think?
Which is why His Steveness offered to do marketing for his re-election in 2012 just last year. But if you’re living with your head in the clouds, as fictional superior beings are wont to do, you needn’t concern yourself with reality.
Being,
Steve Jobs believed in those things.
Steve Jobs supported Obama.
I believe you’re the one wrong here..
Actually, Jobs was very critical of Obama. Told him he would be a one-termer. Obama refused to allow repatriotriation of foreign moneys. And Jobs was upset with Obama’s anti-business stance. This is just like many other liberal business people who once supported Obama. They have lost their willingness to support him.
Funny how despite Obama’s alleged “anti-business stance,” American businesses have NEVER been more profitable.
Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah,, Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Educate your self, fool!
Anyone with 1/2 brain knows Obama will go down as one of the best presidents ever. Check the facts before you embarrass yourself.
Hear hear! One of the best President’s of the past three years!
WOW, that’s quite the claim. Too bad there’s nothing to support it.
Let’s see..
• He’s killed Osama Bin Laden
• Eliminated several other Al-Qaeda leaders
• Ended the War in Iraq
• Begun the drawdown of forces from Afghanistan
• End-run Republican obstructionism by recess-appointing Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection
Board. Have a look at the DOW now as opposed to at the be inning of his tenure then carefully proceed to pull your head out of your a*s.
Joe Bob, the do not want facts man. No facts. Cut it out.
Next you’re going to be saying he lead health care reform. I can only reply with “Elizabeth Warren for President 2016.
She is doing a great job with education. But anybody that does not believe she is a political prop in an election year, on Apple’s record earnings day, is not paying attention.
Steve offered to help Obama with his re-election, and called Fox news a “destructive force.”
IMaki go Kaki
You Yanks are hilarious 😉
Can’t you just let it be an heartfelt gesture towards the recently deceased widow of perhaps the most successful businessman ever, at an event which goes back to the very roots of the Union’s foundations, which traditionally honours America’s best?
I can think of no more fitting a person than Laurene Powell Jobs or a more appropriate occasion to honour the man. It’s the sort of tradition thing Americans do so well…usually.
What am I missing?
Laurene’s last chance to see Obama read a State of the Union (really, a taxpayer-funded, nationally-televised campaign) speech off the teleprompter.
It’d be interesting to be in the room if she decided to pass on her late husband’s words of wisdom to the union-made and union-owned Obamas: “U.S. public schools are unionized in the worst possible way.”
I can’t wait to wipe yout face all over my ass after the republikkkans get thrashed
Based on your spelling, you must have gone to one of those Democrat-supported schools.
Typing on the run on an iPhone ain’t that easy biz
Guess you did not get the deliberately placed “KKK.”
But don’t let the short family tree roots give you away
It’s gonna happen. Obama has no competition whatsoever.
+1
@First 2010, Then 2012
It’s always a pleasure to try to educate one of you Tea
Party dimwits. The State of the Union speech is dictated
by our Constitution. Nearly everything the government
does is “taxpayer-funded”.
Uh, actually, the Constitution says absolutely not one thing about a state of the union speech. And, in fact, most state of the union reports throughout our history have been given in letter form – NOT as a speech. Also, there is nothing saying that it must be given once a year, or in January.
Like Jefferson, I am opposed to the entire spectacle of the established practice of a SOTU speech. Especially one being televised, and especially with the grand kingly announcement introducing the POTUS, followed by an appalling 15 minute procession of handshaking and backslapping in a room full of people with less appeal than those in the Star Wars cantina.
Now then, daugav, you would do well in the future to avoid any further presumptuousness. You are, quite obviously, in no way equipped to be educating any at all, since you, yourself, are ignorant of the plain facts.
This is the entirety of the Constitutional mandate for the occasional report to Congress. Compare this to what is actually done in practice, and then go humble yourself:
Article II, Sec. 3, of the U.S. Constitution requires that, “The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
Boiling down your pompous and pedantic blather:
You call daugav an idiot, then quote the constitution and show him to be pretty much correct.
You wouldn’t expect a Teabagger to actually KNOW what is in the Constitution- would you? In Tennessee, the Teabaggers/NeoCon Knuckle -Draggers are trying to ban the inclusion of slavery in textbooks. No joke- just want to push it right down the memory hole.
Discussing almost anything of substance with most Reich-Wingers is an exercise in frustration and futility as they elevate their belief to the level of known history and facts.You know why? Gawd wants it that way.
And Tennessee wasn’t a state with large numbers of slaves.
did you say that as well she it was Bush doing it?
I agree with you. Let’s get back to the pre-union utopia — when children worked 7 days a week in sweat shops. And while we’re at it, let’s get rid of all those other commie-pinko-faggot niceties, like women having status as “persons”, non-whites having equality, and so on.
Hey Laurene, wear the “One and Done” t-shirt!
Ah, you empty-headed knuckle scrapers: Obama is a shoe-in. And you fearfully know it.
Wanna bet ye who shits in the park “protesting” nothing then runs back home to mommy and daddy the minute it gets too cold?
Conservatives the Largest Ideological Group in U.S., Outnumber Liberals 2-1, Independents Skew Conservative – Gallup, January 2012
Do you consider yourself to be an Ideologue?
Who do you think best represents the values of the Republican party going forward? Who among your candidates will save America?
I’ll save you the total waste of time, Laurene:
The State of the Union sucks:
Direction of Country
• Right direction 24%
•Wrong direction: 68%
•Spread: -44
1/9 – 1/15 Rasmussen Reports
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/direction_of_country-902.html
A trolling we will go
A trolling we will go
Hi Ho the darry- O’
A trolling we will go!
Then-Apple CEO John Sculley famously sat next to Hillary during Bill Clinton’s first State of the Union address in 1993. Sculley was fired from Apple not long after that.
Of course, the politicians are looking for huge donations to their campaigns and political parties. They just want her money, that’s all.
I wonder if Apple could be started today? Two guys in a garage working with electronics?…
Hell, a ten year old can’t even operate a simple Lemonade stand just feet from ‘that garage’ without being shut down by authorities if they haven’t complied with statutes and regulations!
They could still do it, they would just have to be sure their HOA never found out . . . .
So mature.
Leave it to the Obamas to be the first to lunge for Steve’s billions.
I normally do not stoop this low but….
First 2010, then 2012…eat shit and die. You are one sick puppy.
Yes you are stopping low, 2010 is dead on
1) Learn to spell
2) Ever think she may have been invited perhaps because she is a friend and a hard worker for academic institutions?
3) Why do people always assume the worst of others? It is due to projecting your own feelings/motives on others. Think about that.
I wasn’t going to vote at all this time around, because I dont like Obama’s positions on rights issues and Guantanamo…
But I think I am going to now just to spite a**holes like you.
Apple trashed the street too $13.87 EPS !!!
I’m sure Obama will be hailing Apple as a Great American Company, one which has excelled even in the current economic climate. However, none of his policies have helped. Nor Bush’s. In fact, the tax rules kept in place have prevented companies like Apple, GE, Microsoft, GM, etc. from bringing foreign profits back to the U.S. That’s money which could be used at home to create more jobs (no guarantees it would, but it certainly won’t create any jobs being kept overseas due to a huge tax hit if it is brought home).
If Obama is serious about creating jobs, then approve the Keystone XL pipeline before Canada agrees to sell its oil to China. Stop the Dept. of Labor from running around threatening Boeing and other businesses which are trying to create jobs and expand. Stop letting environmental extremists control policy. And put some damn common sense into education and let the states handle it instead of handing down mandate after unfunded mandate like No Child Left Behind (that was Bush, but it is an abject disaster for schools).
And here you had everyone believing you actually had a clue.
The pipeline has been vetted, and it will only create a few thousand temporary jobs at best. Keystone’s previous pipelines have been notorious for multiple (>10) spillages in their first years of operation. More oil is not the answer. The energy SECTOR has to innovate.
Like Synova. Also wasting money on Tesla. Why Tesla needed its own factory financed in part by government grants when it could have licensed its technology to others who already had the manufacturing infrastructure is beyond me. Who needs a $70,000 plus gov’t subsidized car? Nobody, unless you raise gas to $10 a gallon.
Bigotry is alive and thriving in America. Something Mr. Jobs would’ve never tolerated.
The kkks hijacked the country the news and MDN, compliments of the indulgers.
Proud to be an American used to sound sweet.
I hope this is because Obama is announcing that the next round of stimulus will be funded entirely by Laurence Powell Jobs.
Yeesh, this comments section got ugly really fast.
The State of the Union Jan. 2009 Jan 2012
Unemployment: 6.8% 8.5%+
Gasoline/gallon: $1.68 $3.39
Annual Electric Bill: $1,120 $1,420
On Food Stamps:32 million 46 million
U.S. Debt: $10.62 Trillion $15.23 Trillion
The State of the Union Jan. 2009 Jan 2012
Unemployment: 6.8% 8.5%+
Gasoline/gallon: $1.68 $3.39
Annual Electric Bill: $1,120 $1,420
On Food Stamps: 32 million 46 million
U.S. Debt: $10.62 Trillion $15.23 Trillion
Heck of a job there Barack
Anybody got stats between Bush and Clinton?
Bush and Obama:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/the-chart-that-should-accompany-all-discussions-of-the-debt-ceiling/242484/
The tax revenue from the internet boom under Clinton made it look like he turned things around. Of course, the top marginal tax rate was a few percent higher under Clinton as well. This helps tax revenues in a major way without really hurting the .1% (they can still buy their yachts).
What people don’t realize is that Presidents cannot FIX economies. They can only screw it up (by going to war). The fixing has to be done by Congress.
$1.68 a gallon? I don’t remember gas being less than $2 since the 1990’s Clinton era.
I did check, and you are technically right, there was one two month period in 2009 where gas did dip that low. But I think that’s deceptive because it was over $4 the months before that and over $3 months later, so it was very brief and unusual dip not at all representative of what gas prices were typically like in that time period.
I should have stocked up on gasoline in January of 2009.
Hmmm…. speaking of facts, and forgive me if they don’t teach this in the third grade, but all of those trends were in motion long before Obama took office.
Keep your provincial colony politics to yourselves
That you have one idiot better than another idiot is completely irrelevant
When is everyone going to admit that it’s the american people who are to blame for the mess this country is in?
no wonder apple blew past all predictions. I can tell by this dialogue that apple’s products appeal to a very wide swath of US political thought. and good thing we’re online; else it looks like there could be a brawl.
Lol…
You’re all a bunch of political retards. Obama is a traitor, but anyone who thinks any of those other clowns would be any better should think again.
I knew this story would bring our the Nazi crowd that frequents the comments here.
My thoughts exactly. An unfortunate side effect of the iDevice halo effect. Old school Mac users were an enlightened bunch, but the Apple product user profile has been dragged down somewhat.
+ 1
And it’s getting worse, I fear.
Right you are. Company profits going up, user IQs going down.