Posted on 04/11/2011 9:32:29 AM PDT by UltraConservative
On April 5, President Obama kicked off his newly-minted presidential campaign by announcing that he would be conducting a “Facebook town hall” event streaming live via the website and via the White House website on April 20. Just to ensure that the Facebook audience recognizes that this isn’t merely another media appearance but an endorsement of Obama by the Facebook executives, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg quizzed Obama before an audience of over 1,000 Facebook employees and other internet mavens. The recorded result will be chopped up and distributed via Facebook and the White House website over the coming months. ...
Obama isn’t the first politician to use Facebook as a fundraising platform. But he is the first politician to be granted the privileged insider status of visiting HQ to do so. Facebook has been one of Obama’s most important supporters over the past several years. And Facebook is hardly the only Silicon Valley organization backing Obama. Apple and Google have also become vocal supporters of the administration. ...
On the surface, this makes little sense. Obama’s policies have targeted businesses with remorseless cruelty, setting them up as villains in the class conflict Obama wishes to precipitate. Facebook, Apple, and Google are three of the most successful businesses of the 21st century. Yet all three seem to be mobilizing in favor of the Obama Administration.
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Feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last?
I know Google is cozy, and Facebook in this upcoming event. I guess if 'dining' is 'vocal', then Apple is in. But I don't think it was Jobs's that requested the supper, I thought Obama wanted to hang out with someone who had done something. Maybe I am just a mis-informed Apple-using-Volvo-driving conservative...it aint easy being me...
Facebook is like anything else. It can be abused.
Facebook, like another poster said, is ANOTHER tool for communication, not the only one.
I have used it to find old friends and keep in touch with people... other people are what life is all about.
“On the surface, this makes little sense. Obama’s policies have targeted businesses with remorseless cruelty, setting them up as villains in the class conflict Obama wishes to precipitate. Facebook, Apple, and Google are three of the most successful businesses of the 21st century. Yet all three seem to be mobilizing in favor of the Obama Administration”
You do realize that in Obama’s world there is the “rich” and then there are the “super rich.” The rich (you know, doctors, dentists, accountants and the like) are to pay 90 percent of their income in taxes since Obama says that is the patriotic thing to do. The “super rich” , on the other hand, such as Bill Gates have special tax laws written that allow him to give each of his children 5 Million dollars tax free. I’m not sure of the specifics here but that special exemption was written just for Bill - who supports Dems. (If you can imagine a liberal who wants only others to pay their fair share!) Google was given special exemptions that let them getting away with paying only 2 percent in taxes. Of course they love Obama. Warren Buffet, on the other hand profits with the death tax because when families cannot afford the taxes to keep the family business in the family, Warren sweeps in and buys it up for a fraction of its worth. With a little checking, you can get the hypocrisy that IS Obama.
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