Steve Jobs on obama.

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  Steve Jobs predicted Obama would be a one-term president    By Rachel Rose Hartman
Political ReporterBy Rachel Rose Hartman | The Ticket – 1 hr 52   
  Jobs (Jeff Chiu/AP)
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.
Also, Jobs nearly missed the meeting in the first place.
From the Huffington Post:
 

Though his wife told him that Obama "was really psyched to meet with you," Jobs insisted on the personal invitation, and the standoff lasted for five days. When he finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed from a liberal into a conservative.

After laying into the White House's purported anti-business outlook, Jobs offered to help Obama repair the rift  by arranging meeting between the president and a group of CEOs. When the guest list began to grow, Jobs reportedly resolved to back out of the gathering. Instead, he attended,  though he poo-pooed the fancy menu. "But he was overruled by the White House, which cited the president's fondness for cream pie," Huffington Post writes.
Jobs also offered to to help create political ads for the president in 2012. Jobs had scotched a similar effort to craft Obama ads in 2008, when Isaacson claims that Jobs was unhappy that Obama strategist David Axelrod showed insufficient deference to the Apple honcho.
This and other political news is just the latest information to leak from the hotly anticipated book.
Another revelation that Isaacson has teed up for a "60 Minutes" interview featuring the biography this Sunday is that Jobs wished he had chosen sooner to undergo cancer surgery

[Cabin4]

TM,
I knew Steve Jobs enough to know what you just wrote about him the last thing on people's mind like me. I worked at Apple and had direct contact with him on occasion and much with his direct staff over a 3 year period. So what comes to my mind is very different than this public perception. He was a demanding, relentless, obnoxious and cruel behind the scenes. There were no limits to what he and his staff of senior execs would ask of the employees and suppliers. When it comes to time, there was no clock with these guys. As one of his direct staff told me point blank, our employees are just simply a resource and a tool to the end game. They are no different than our suppliers.
 
It’s a meat grinder over at 1 Infinite Loop and that is my final take away of my 3 years there. Did they do me okay? yes but I saw firsthand how other really good people who worked their tails off got treated in the end. At Apple, you are only as good as your very last piece of work. I had enough of that and got out on my own terms. Here in the valley, people who work there usually don’t stay all that long and once gone, they never look back. It’s no fun house. There are far, far better employers. I put them as one of the worst I ever worked for, if not the worst.
 
Apple is sitting on $80b in cash and they have likely the worst benefits package in the valley of the big guys. Their pay scale is okay but they come up with any reason not give employees a raise at all or minuscule amounts. Steve Jobs stock option back dating scandal screwed thousands of lower employees out of thousands of their stock options that today would be worth them a ton. Back when the scandal broke open wide in 2005, Apple stock was about $40. Now its worth $300. If you were granted say 1000 options as a new employee, just imagine what his illegal scandal cost those employees who came to Apple under the agreement to have those 1000 options mature over say 2 to 4 years what it would have done for their finances. Instead, Steve got his options, thousands of employees never compensated in any way for it. Totally screwed over. I’m not talking about executives here.
 
He is no God and I just read all the BS now about him now. The liberal media loves the guy and they only really report on the good stuff and never the real issues.

 

[Cabin4]

Well, I disagree that the OWS crowd "questions" guys like this. The OWS crowd was in morning when it was announced that he died. I remember the pictures on TV of them all crying and huddling in prayer. Most of these people are just mad and they really have no idea what the problems are. They just believe stuff is screwed up. They are correct on that point and all we have to do is look at the enablers of our countries problem. That is Washington and the 50 State Houses and the politicians that occupy these slime filled facilities are the primary killers of this country.