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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has made it official: He’s endorsing Barack Obama, and will hit the campaign trail for the Democrat this week, including at a Florida event where he will co-moderate a panel about the economy. Other Silicon Valley execs are expected to follow Schmidt’s lead.
Schmidt is a political moderate; for example, he spoke at Britain’s Conservative Party conference in 2006, according to the Wall Street Journal. He’s been an informal adviser to the Obama campaign on technology as well as green energy.
Schmidt has made it clear that it’s his personal endorsement, rather than Google’s. But there’s no doubt where Google employees stand: According to the Wall Street Journal, as of August 31, Google employees had given $487,355 to Obama’s campaign and only $20,600 to McCain’s.
Obama also agrees with Schmidt’s and Google’s official stand that the government should ensure network neutrality. McCain, the Wall Street Journal says, is not in favor of the policy.
No surprise to see someone from The Google endorse Obama.
And, after all, McCain has Carly Fiorina on his side.
Wasn’t he a big Ron Paul fan? I’m surprised he would move from him to support for either of these clowns.
Gee, maybe there’s a genuine reason why Obama is leading in the poles. Maybe this is but one of them.
He also spoke before a Tory conference a couple years back. Like Powell, he just can’t bring himself to endorse McBush.
Who cares?
Now’s the time for those powerful people who see the writing on the wall to ingratiate themselves…
What happens if I click on one of those McCain-Palin ads? I mean, where does the money go? Does the campaign pay dvorak.org a couple cents for each click?
Because, I’m thinking we need to start clicking those links.
Hopefully Obama will gather more businessmen and form a committee on how to fix and strengthen the economy.
Businessmen who have the credentials and savvy.
Then, even more hopefully, Obama will listen.
#1 – I’m supporting this clown:
So a company chairman that helps restrict free speech endorsed a candidate who tries to restrict speech.
This only makes headlines because its a slow news day. The problem with being a CEO of an engineering driven company is that people already know you’re not in the driver’s seat.
#10 “The problem with being a CEO of an engineering driven company”
The only problem with that is Google is not an engineering driven company. It is a marketing driven company, like M.S.
Not surprised. Most in the high tech industry endorse Obama as he gets it. Engineers by nature are fact driven, not gut driven. Palin won’t get hired as secretary in the bay area.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=362
How about some of you smarter republicans grow a pair and vote Obama (like you really want to). Just tell your republican mom and dad, friends that you voted McCain.
Shhh.,,mums the word.
All you have to do is try the ‘Obama Application’ on the iPhone.
Where is the one for McSame? I tried to teach my mother how to use e-mail… Let’s face it, the ‘older’ generation, just doesn’t get it.
Even though it was a IBM Thinkpad and MS XP…
I shouda tried a Mac…
Ha Ha Ha…
Darwin is going to smile on this election…
Why should someones decision about who to vote make any difference to me? I saw all the hullabaloo ove Powell endorsing Obama, Who cares I like Powell but who he votes for is not going to mean a hill of beans to me nor would an endorsement from Rush Limbaugh make any difference
My vote is my own and I will decide who I vote for and I will not be swayed by some other persons decision
there it is, predictable as getting wet in the rain…
So a company chairman that helps restrict free speech endorsed a candidate who tries to restrict speech.
This only makes headlines because its a slow news day.
GROG’S THEOREM:
Whenever a person in the public voices a liberal opinion or praises a liberal politician, conservatives will only voice opinions which belittle, insult, denigrate, or question the integrity of the person offering the praise, or will attempt to change the subject.
you could have said:
dude, how hard was that? conservatives remind me of a bunch of lazy hippies crying about how they’re being kept down by the man.
dude, grow a pair already. sheesh.
here, i will provide you with an example of solid conservative discourse that you can use to remind yourself that we all are free to express our opinions, and that we can respectfully disagree with one another
there, now go home and read up the real issues being discussed and let’s have a debate of ideas and not of people.
remember, we are nation of laws, not of men.
#16 WTF was that? Does putting words in bold and italics with a strip next to it suppose to mean anything? LOL
I was looking for some interesting meat but saw nothing. I must say, “..those quarters of american discourse..” was kinda fun. I will try to use that in a sentence some day.
I do believe that those quarters of american discourse are now worth about a dime.
Endorsement comparisons.
Obama/Biden
> Google (Eric Schmidt)
> Intel (Sean Maloney)
> Colin Powell (4star General, Chief of Staff,..)
McCain/Palin
> Radio Shack
> Rhonda’s Laundromat
> Gomer Pyle (Private, USMC)
Google should make voting machines.
In this day and age, we need a president that is technically savvy.
#21 hhopper said, “… we need a president that is technically savvy.”
Like the candidate that said, “the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defence purposes, how to communicate”. ?
Yah…just like the Democratic candidate that invented the information superhighway…
Paddy-O – No, like the one who said the Internet is a series of tubes.
#19, Dallas,
To an otherwise intelligent comparison, maybe you should have added Joe the Plumber. He is attracted to sewage.
#23, brenda,
Yah…just like the Democratic candidate that invented the information superhighway…
And who would that be?
Schmidt asked the Google oracle.
#21:
“In this day and age, we need a president that is technically savvy.”
Why? Since when does the president write laws or approve programs? How about a president who is Constitutionally savvy, for a change. We can’t even get that.
If anyone needs to be technically savvy, it’s the people advising Congress. They’re called constituents. (you’re one of them – write some letters, make some phone calls.)
Companies usually pay protection money to both sides. Its a business expense.
#28 If anyone needs to be technically savvy, it’s the people advising Congress.
no, those are called lobbyists, and we need politicians with degrees in computer science, not political science, so that they can tell bullshit from sounds technology.
everybody talks about how we all benefit from technology, but there’s this group of people out there (i won’t name names) who think technologically savvy people can’t be trusted, which is why they let the chinese do it (i know, it makes no sense to me either)
constitutional law is an intellectual cake walk compared to algorithmic analysis, calculus, etc.
having a bunch of crusty old dodgers who don’t know an e-mail from a fax is dangerous situation.
#17 heh.
hey man, don’t blame me if republican policy isn’t wise or sound, i was just presenting their case for them since no conservatives on this list seem to understand it.
the bold/line is from the BLOCKQUOTE tab and a missing /b tag. my bad.
all better?