Tim Cook Was Named to Hillary Clinton's List of Vice Presidential Candidates

[CaryMacGuy]

First gay vice president along with the first woman president would have been pretty cool. However, I am not sure he would be a good president if something happened to Clinton. He is too quiet but he has good principles and that is important in any leader. I do admire him but he has no government experience and I feel you need that to be a good leader.

 

[odditie]

There's a "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" joke in there somewhere..

 

[yg17]

I know Tim is a lefty, but there is no way he would be that slimy nasty crooked dishonest corrupt pigs running mate.

You misread the article. He was on Hillary Clinton's shortlist, not Donald Trump's.

 

[jca24]

Save our counrty form becomming an open border socialist third world cesspool.

VOTE FOR TRUMP!!​

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You misread the article. He was on Hillary Clinton's shortlist, not Donald Trump's.

I am saying there is no way he would do it.

 

[reyesmac]

I feel Mr. Cook would not want the job because it would ultimately tarnish Apples brand any time there is something bad in the news about him or his administration. Because every time his name would be mentioned Apple's name would come up too. If he is so gung ho about Apple he wouldn't be willing to allow that to happen. I think he is doing just fine by hooking his company up with vice presidents or other investors with political pull so Apple could land more government contracts. He doesn't have to make the conflict of interest so obvious that once again, it tarnishes the Apple brand.

 

[cube]

just locker room talk...

I have a guitar interface for a certain candidate...

 

[blacktape242]

i just threw up in my mouth a little.

 

[BeefCake 15]

He would be giving up power with this job!

 

[ksnell]

Although I'd love to see Bill Gates or Tim Cook as president, the fact of the matter is, they're more powerful being outside the government than in it.

The president's power is limited to what Congress and the Courts will let you do.

Tim Cook can make Apple do pretty much whatever he wants as CEO. Bill Gates is independently wealthy and really can just do whatever he wants. If he wants to pay billions of dollars to develop vaccines to help Africans, he can do that - he has nobody to answer to.

Same deal with Elon Musk. If he wants to spend billions of dollars to send a rocket to Mars, nobody can tell him no.

The president can't send people to Mars just because he wants to, though. He has to explain how that's a good usage of tax money right now.

Tell that to Obama.

 

[prowlmedia]

People should not read too much into this.

This was the everyone-and-the-kitchen-sink list they start with, just to have something to work with as they cut it down.

Are you asking people on the internet to actually think, research and read without instantly reacting?

 

[jca24]

First gay vice president along with the first woman president would have been pretty cool. However, I am not sure he would be a good president if something happened to Clinton. He is too quiet but he has good principles and that is important in any leader. I do admire him but he has no government experience and I feel you need that to be a good leader.

The presidency is not about being cool, you see where the "cool" obama got us.
TRUMP!!

 

[peterdevries]

He's got no idea of politics.

And the guy in your profile picture does?

edit: as usual the political threads in the macrumors forum are the best place to find new additions to the ignore list..

 

[RickInHouston]

Her entire time as Secretary of State was used to work on her current Presidential run. That' makes me SO happy.

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Everyone was on the list.

Who can get us the....
gay vote
independant vote
spanish vote
Silicon Valley vote
international vote
red state vote

and on and on. Every angle is considered. Doesn't mean they were more than thrown on a list that considered most everyone.

 

[newdeal]

Well I am sure it would have went over very well with hardcore republicans that the democrats were running a woman for president along with an openly gay man for VP. Not that I have any problem with that, and I am not even American, but it seems like there are a lot of republicans who would be against it

 

[convergent]

This is called starting with an open mind. Something this candidate is much better at than her opponent. It would've been another historic first if it had materialized - the first gay candidate on a major ticket. It was obviously unlikely, however, for a number of reasons.

It would be great if we stopped worrying about the first black... first woman... first gay... and just worried about getting the best person for the job. Its interesting that the party that whines about inequality is the party that wants to slice and dice everyone into groups. For one of the most important jobs in the world, I could care less what the candidate's race or gender is if they have what it takes to do the job well. But for some reason when I say that, I'M the one that gets called a bigot, racist, homophobe if the one I don't agree with is in one of the special groups.

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Her entire time as Secretary of State was used to work on her current Presidential run. That' makes me SO happy.

Yeah, she certainly didn't help sanction Iran, kill bin Laden, manage the State Department when they saw over 50% growth in exports to China, touched nearly every foreign policy in Obama's second term, the SCHIP program which expanded health coverage to millions of lower-income children, rebuild alliances with the EU and Asia after Buch presidency hurt many of them, the Pediatric Research Equity Act......

Yeah, she's spent the entire time as Secretary of State working on her presidential run.

 

[gnasher729]

I know Tim is a lefty, but there is no way he would be that slimy nasty crooked dishonest corrupt pigs running mate.

I think you are confused. They mentioned Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump.

 

[djgamble]

Dead set... who cares?

We all know the 'Libertarians' want Donald Trump to win... that snowden's in bed with the Russians and that Assange is is bed with some weird anti-American country I've never heard of.

If this is the worst targeted leak they can come up with then SO WHAT? If anything it proves she's squeaky clean because her whole e-mail's public (thanks to hackers who conveniently don't give us an insight into right-wing pollies) and this is the worst they can find.

 

[brianvictor7]

Meh I still think RELIGION, ECONOMY and POLITICS should be strictly separated and not influence one another. I'm sick of celebrities, industrialists and big CEOs siding with one or the other political figure. It's called manipulation.

For better or worse, it is not possible to separate them. Their interests and influence have and always will overlap.

I will say that it would have been interesting had Tim been VP.

 

[cube]

Everyone was on the list.

Who can get us the....
gay vote
independant vote
spanish vote
Silicon Valley vote
international vote
red state vote

and on and on. Every angle is considered. Doesn't mean they were more than thrown on a list that considered most everyone.

Sure Charlie Sheen, too?

 

[obeygiant]

Tim Cook for CEO of the world 2020

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Well I am sure it would have went over very well with hardcore republicans that the democrats were running a woman for president along with an openly gay man for VP. Not that I have any problem with that, and I am not even American, but it seems like there are a lot of republicans who would be against it

It most certainly would have been a hot ticket item and one that would have swayed many current Hillary voters away.

Tim is a great guy (on the occasions I've met him he's been very cool to chat with) but he's not in a spot to be Vice President of the US. If there was any real discussion about having him on as the VP ticket, I'm sure they shyly away in part because of his sexual preference. Look at how much how hard the Republicans push against Hillary just because she's a woman. Now imagine you add homosexual to the ticket too.

It was very difficult to elect our first non-white president. It's incredibly difficult to make our first female president happen. It would be beyond extremely difficult to do female president and gay vice president on the same ticket in a time when neither has been done, much less nominated. While I'm sure we'll see it happen in the future, doing so in 2016 would have been a pretty impossible combo.

 

[peterdevries]

Sure Charlie Sheen, too?

Yep, pornstars need representation too!

 

[asiga]

How about Tim Cook concentrate on getting the headphone jack back and making new Macs?

No, he'd better move into a political career, which seems to be his only worry, and free Apple from the strong political/ideological bias present since he is the CEO. In the past Apple was technology, now it is a lobby thanks to Cook.

However, on second thought I don't know what would be worse: to continue losing Apple or to have Cook as president. Both consequences are very bad.