Thursday, June 14, 2012

Obama and the high tech billionaires

Isn’t it too bad that Obama has so little faith in capitalism.  Woot! What a joke. He needs capitalists on his side to win, and he needs to create division among ordinary Americans who will think they are the bad guys, the evil Wall Street guys.

In January 2012 Jim Messina, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff began a new job as “Barack Obama’s campaign manager, and being a diligent student with access to some very smart people, he arranged a rolling series of personal seminars with the CEOs and senior executives of companies that included Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), Zynga (ZNGA), Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Salesforce (CRM), and DreamWorks (DWA). “I went around the country for literally a month of my life interviewing these companies and just talking about organizational growth, emerging technologies, marketing,” he says at Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago. . .

“This time, you have to program content to a much wider variety of channels—Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube (GOOG), Google—because people are segmented in a very different way than they were four years ago.”  When Obama declared for president, the iPhone hadn’t been released. Now,  [Steve] Jobs told him, mobile technology had to be central to the campaign’s effort. “

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/30696-obamas-ceo-jim-messina-has-a-president-to-sell

Not a one of these got could have gotten where they are today without investors and venture capital, but Steven Spielberg according to this article designed the Bain attacks against Romney.

And also.  How much fancy technology will it take to convince people he’s doing a good job if after almost 4 years he can get back to the economy Bush had for 7 years, or keep them from noticing he’s expanded the wars, and that he not only has suspicious friends like Bill Ayers, but shady appointees like Eric Holder, his Attorney General?  How long will even the most loyal Democrat swallow this nonsense?

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