Photo shows Obama at dinner with Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg

[Renew Deal]

(CNN) -- A photo released by the White House on Friday shows Apple CEO Steve Jobs, along with other tech luminaries, raising a toast with President Barack Obama at a dinner Thursday night in San Francisco.

The photo, of a private dinner during the President's visit to California, comes as tabloid reports, some featuring alleged photos of Jobs, have questioned the Apple leader's health.

In the photo, Jobs and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg flank Obama during the toast. Wearing his trademark black mock turtleneck shirt, Jobs is photographed from behind.
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Others attending the dinner included Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.

Also, Stanford University President John Hennessy, Genentech CEO Art Levinson, Steve Westly, founder of The Westly Group and John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/18/steve.jobs.obama/index.html?hpt=C2

[madrchsod]

1. yuck........

[Renew Deal]

3. I like it.

Those are all leaders in technology. It's not the same as meeting with bankers.

[TBF]

5. Pandering to the billionaires ... he probably filled them in on their tax cuts. nt

[Renew Deal]

8. You could tell that just from looking at the picture?

Wow. Impressive.

You know Obama is a technophile right?

[TBF]

12. Sure, he's just discussing the latest designs with those folks.

I got this bridge in the middle of Texas ...

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[SammyWinstonJack]

11. His and their tax cuts. He's well on his way to becoming one of those billionaires. Just a matte

of time.


CELEBRATION! :toast:

[TBF]

13. Gotta keep up those private dinners - campaign contributions are important ...

nt

[SDuderstadt]

15. Obama is...

hardly on his way to becoming a billionaire. Not even close.

[NuclearDem]

14. Let's see...Google CEO...Twitter CEO...Facebook CEO...

You know, the same companies we were cheering for helping the Egyptian protesters to organize?

But of course, Obama meets with leaders in technology that HAPPEN to be rich, and it means he's shilling out to them. DU logic at work.

[SDuderstadt]

The DU "shoot-first, ask-questions-later" brigade...

strikes again!

Aren't they a hoot?

[tallahasseedem]

21. Spot on!

Crazy, isn't it?

[tammywammy]

48. +1 n/t

[TBF]

2. Mr. Obama has dinner with his bosses. nt

[Renew Deal]

4. Ummmm, no

[TBF]

6. Ummmm yes, but whatever. nt

[OhioChick]

10. +1000 n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

22. I don't think that is fair. People forget, sometimes, that this is the Blackberry President

Technology has moved so far, so fast.

And, come on, these are not the folks from Chevron and Shell.

[TBF]

23. So, these billionaires are OK then? The others are evil but we like these guys.

OK ...

[PBS Poll-435]

24. No. Technology is important (Re: Egypt)

Listening to people is important.


I don't remember where having dinner with folks that are important for our time was a bad thing.

[TBF]

25. Any chance he's gonna meet with some poor folks, or are rich folks the only important ones?

You don't have to answer that it's a rhetorical question.

[Teaser]

30. uh, this meeting was about promoting tech oriented education.

this crowd supports that initiative.

Why don't you?

[TBF]

33. Who said I didn't? But why is it just rich folk at that table ? nt

[NuclearDem]

36. Because...billionaires are the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter and Apple

The people who manage how those companies work...the ones likely to implement changes to their software that would benefit education via technology.

[TBF]

42. Any thought to how people actually learn - any input from educators

or - gasp - students?

[NuclearDem]

50. That wasn't the goal of the meeting

Maybe they already gathered that information through other studies. Maybe there were meetings between lower-level advisers and the education community.

Point is, Obama met with these people to discuss implementing changes and to have some of the most important minds in technology give him advice on how technology can effect education.

[TBF]

56. Sure, and maybe pigs fly. Point is, Mr. Obama is more concerned with billionaires

than he is with workers, as he shows us time and time again through his actions (meetings, legislation, priorities, etc)

[PBS Poll-435]

31. I said technology was important. Better communication caused revolution in Egypt

Technology is a huge factor in organizing Wisconsin's protests.

Why is it wrong for the President to meet with the people who bring products to market that make communication easier?

And why is their this intense need for false comparisons?

[TBF]

32. Sorry, but better communication did not "cause" revolution in Egypt -

that is just patently false. Typical bourgeoisie attitude.

Why this intense need to defend the president no matter what fool thing he does?

[PBS Poll-435]

35. So demonstrations and their organization were not helped by Facebook, MySpace and other I'net

Methods of social networking?

[TBF]

41. You claimed that they CAUSED the revolution. Economics caused this

revolution - folks can only take so much. But soon you will soon see.

[PBS Poll-435]

51. It was a mistake to say that it 'caused' it. But it sure helped

I didn't realize my context.

[Matariki]

59. It didn't "cause" it - but it unquestionably assisted it.

[Teaser]

27. All billionaires != evil

some are, some aren't.

[TBF]

34. It's not that billionaires are "evil" it's that capitalism causes so much inequity -

with just a few folks owning everything.

How is that good for the majority of the people of this world?

[Teaser]

37. It's not

but that's the system we're currently in. These guys worked that system, and made it pay for themselves.

Some of them manage to do some good, in spite of it. And by and large these billionaires tend toward progressive values.

We will need wealthy progressives if we're ever gonna beat the other side. They have many more billionaires than we do.

[TBF]

39. Billionaires tend towards progressive values?

I guess if you believe in incrementalism that would be the way to look at it. You and I may have to agree to disagree on this one, but I do thank you for your civility in this discussion.

[Teaser]

53. Silicon Valley execs do, yeah

not all of them. but some do, more so than the average. But sure, agree to disagree.

Personally, I'd love to have a maximum wage. But I don't think this country would stand for it. Too many people dream of being rich.

Thanks for being civil too. I'm gonna try and be less caustic on here. Too many important things going down these days to keep fighting amongst ourselves.

[KittyWampus]

40. It isn't capitalism causing so much inequity. It's a screwed up tax code. You need to learn basic

economics.

[TBF]

43. Excuse me? You think it's a "screwed up" tax code -

you can tax them all you want and they will hide it in a million ways with the help of their lawyers.

Please, a little sophistication so we can have a discussion here.

[SDuderstadt]

57. Really?

How does capitalism do that?

Ever heard of "complex cause"?

[KittyWampus]

38. How do these "billionaires" vote? Where do they stand on higher taxes for their tax bracket?

Oh, you have no freaking idea.

[TBF]

44. Who cares how they vote? If voting changed anything they'd outlaw it. nt

[NuclearDem]

47. It makes all the difference because if they vote Dem, your entire argument falls apart

[TBF]

52. Billionaires voting democratic does nothing for workers. nt

[KittyWampus]

54. creating new products and pushing forward in technology does.

[TBF]

55. Who is going to buy it? Other billionaires? Nobody else has any money. nt

[KittyWampus]

58. yeah, those ipads are justing sitting on the shelves.

[TBF]

60. So the bourgeoise has toys - big fucking deal. Nobody else has any money. nt

[JuniperLea]

46. I've worked for several Democratic billionaires...

You cannot tell by bank accounts. Not by a long shot.

Billionaire Eli Broad, for example, has hosted Democratic fundraisers... and he "volunteered" me and several other executive assistants to work at the last Democratic convention held in Los Angeles.

[Brother Buzz]

26. One of those guys, the host, the lynchpin, works for Obama

John Doerr was appointed as a member to the president’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board to advise the president and his administration for fixing the economy during the recession.

He's the catalyst that makes a lot of things happen. He was also Clinton's go-to man in California; Clinton payed a visit to him EVERY TIME he visited Northern California. Doerr was also on Al Gore's short list for VP. Gore/Doerr ticket - Would have, could have, should have....

You say bosses, but I say trusted advisers, advisers that I would choose to throw my lot in with, considering the alternatives.

[DFab420]

7. Haha

Obama meets with rich progressives and we balk...

Obama doesn't reach out to rich progressives and we balk....

Obama cures cancer and we get mad he doesn't care about Oncologists..


This site is becoming a joke upon itself.


Except for John Chambers...he can kiss my rear end...

[cutlassmama]

16. Jobs looks awful thin.

[NuclearDem]

17. Yeah...he's on his way out.

Really sad...

[ChromeFoundry]

18. Meeting of the offshoring minds.....

"Obama's meeting with the tech luminaries was intended to discuss innovation and spurring job growth."

Job growth in India and China?

[Dr Fate]

19. Cool. He should make time for a trip & photo op in WI as well. n/t

n/t

[denem]

20. Zuckerberg wore a coat and tie,

Steve his trademark black turtleneck and jeans. It's sad they no longer fit him.

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[tallahasseedem]

29. You really get around dont you?

;)

[JI7]

45. did they purposely take the pic at this angle so we can't see Jobs face ?

i hope he gets better like he did before. but pancreatic cancer is one of the worst.

[JI7]

didn't the Google guy in Egypt thank Mark Zuckerberg ?

maybe the revolution was really about corporate control

[JI7]

49. didn't the Google guy in Egypt thank Mark Zuckerberg ?

maybe the revolution was really about corporate control