Steve Jobs told Obama he'd be a one-term president because he was too "anti-business"?

[marmar]

:shrug: The parallel universe of the 1%


Steve Jobs, known for his aggressive and sometimes prickly personality, didn't hold back when he met President Obama in 2010: The Apple CEO warned Obama he wasn't going to win re-election.

"You're headed for a one-term presidency," Jobs said during a meeting with the president that took place a year prior to Jobs' death related to pancreatic cancer, according to his upcoming biography as reported by the Huffington Post.

Walter Isaacson, who wrote the forthcoming Jobs bio, reportedly reveals that Jobs argued that Obama was jeopardizing his re-election prospects because of what Jobs took to be a pervasive anti-business climate in his administration. Jobs cited excessive federal regulations and operating costs for businesses as harmful legacies of the Obama White House. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/steve-jobs-predicted-obama-one-term-president-144644675.html

[unkachuck]

1. how ironic....Jobs no longer CEO, Obama's still President....n/t

[BlueCaliDem]

6. Heh...and if America's smart, Obama will be reelected. eom

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. Maybe it's me but I don't trust anything that is said when....

I don't know the context in which it was said. Isaacson is looking to sell a book and I am not sure of the motive.
Maybe Jobs was a conservative or maybe he was stating what he thought was a fact whether he agreed with it or not. I don't know.
Frankly I don't care but I am suspicious or just cynical in my older age.

[banned from Kos]

17. Jobs was very liberal as evidenced by his political donations.

He just wasn't very progressive.

[AmirDal]

3. Jobs express the standard view of globalized business

[BeyondGeography]

4. Understandable...Apple didn't have two nickels to rub together at the time

:sarcasm:

[AngkorWot]

5. I guess the joke's on you, Steve.

[themadstork]

7. He also called for busting the teachers' unions.

Rich brats can be pretty predictable in their demands.


It is probably hard for someone like Jobs to realize that no one cares what he thinks about education.

[MADem]

8. Steve Jobs told the mother of his first child, and the court, that he was sterile and the kid was

not his.

What does THAT say about Steve Jobs....aside from the fact that he's not always right?

[Dawson Leery]

9. True.

[kysrsoze]

10. Steve Jobs was a megalomaniacal, infantile dickwad. N/T

People worship him, but I have yet to hear about anything nice or altruistic he ever did. In fact, he was well known to be a tyrant, who would fire anyone who looked at him the wrong way. Contrast that with Bill Gates, who is one of the most generous modern-day philanthropists.

I like my iProducts, but I'm thoroughly unimpressed by Jobs as a person.

[FarLeftFist]

11. Steve was a revolutionary. He also revolutionized shipping jobs overseas.

[otohara]

14. Jobs was Anti American Workers

Hard to be pro business, when corporate America takes it's manufacturing to India, china.

Pro business means no taxes, no regulation, no unions, no jumping out Apple windows to your death .

[undeterred]

12. Did Obama say 'over your dead body'?

:hide:

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. Well that settles it then; Jobs was a racist. Who knew? n/t

[marmar]

16. Who said anything about race? What does that have to do with the topic?

nt

[markpkessinger]

15. I have had my fill of the Steve Jobs cult...

I actually saw a letter to the editor in a daily paper of a PA college town in which the reader took the paper to task for not featuring the coverage of Jobs' death prominently enough. She wrote:

"I think this story is far more important to our area and our country than the poll reporting of whether the wars have been a good or bad idea..."

Talk about a cult following!

[Starry Messenger]

18. recommended