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Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States

Posted by pudge on from the we-need-a-megalomaniacal-leader-for-a-change dept.

Will Foster writes "There is a groundswell of support for electing Steve Jobs President of the United States." I'll vote for him if I can write in my vote -- with a Newton stylus!

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  1. Re:Wrong Steve by Forgotten · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Only if you quaintly assume that being president has something to do with having a bountiful clue, or being a kind reasonable person.

    Woz would make a great technical or education advisor, but probably a lousy president.

  2. Hrm... by zod1025 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know, he might not be a bad president...

    a) he's someone who made something of himself, and wasn't just from a wealthy, powerful family

    b) he's someone that has Vision and can seek it out (even if we might not agree with his Vision, he's definitely got it!)

    c) he's arguably of above-average intelligence... try and say THAT of any of the other candidates!

    If Nader wasn't running, I'd vote for Jobs just because I know that if Jobs won, he would make a decent go of it and maybe even get something real done.

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  3. Reagan Without a Cause by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Heck this has been going on longer than post-irony set in. I remember my amusement when I first heard ronald reagan was a presidential candidate. Well he'll never win I thought, what a joke. After he won I was in disbelief, and realized I was not the only one when I saw a bathroom grafitii "reagan...without a cause", an obvious riff on the james dean movie title.

    Later after watching "back to the future" there is a scene where marty tries to prove he's fromt he future. The professor asks "okay future boy, whos president." MArty answeres "ronald reagan" thus assuring the professor he's a lunatic: "Oh and who's the treasury secratary 'jack benny?'.

    Later in the same movie, the professor is amazed by the video camera "a portable movie production studio....Great scott! no wonder your politicians have to be actors!". A banal observation unless you think of in the context of it dawning on a person from the 1950's.

    So will we all be thinkng "great scott, no wonder all your presidents have to be CEO's of consumer products" when a visitor from the future comes back and tells us about president Jobs?

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