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By: Google’s Schmidt and Microsoft’s Mundie Appointed As Obama Tech Advisors

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:30:31 +0000

[...] Obama recently named Aneesh Chopra as chief technology officer, a position that was widely speculated to go to a Silicon Valley technologist. Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Eric Schmidt [...]

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By: Aneesh Chopra Named Federal CTO « S. Navpreet Jatana - Senior IT Executive - jatana.com

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:40:23 +0000

[...] high expectations, much anticipation and speculation, on April 18, 2009, President Obama named Aneesh Paul Chopra the first-ever Federal Chief [...]

By: Christopher Dorobek

Christopher Dorobek — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:44:45 +0000

Ballmer isn’t a candidate — nor Gates, nor Bezos. It’s all just speculation.
I continue to hear it will be Warrior. Regardless, the real clout is with Kundra, who has budget and policy authority.

By: Yakov

Yakov — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:58:08 +0000

hah exactly… Why do people want the government involved in anything? It fucks up everything it touches!

By: Patriot

Patriot — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:21:14 +0000

Let me get this straight:

You complain that his SecTreas is going after VC money. You complain that VC money is drying up (most likely because VCs don’t want to get walloped by ridiculously high taxes, no doubt.) You complain that he hasn’t named a CTO to “start tackling all sorts of problems” (despite the fact this runs counter to the entrepreneurship you promote.)

So you’re reaping what you have sown, you have voter’s remorse, and you’re complaining. Pardon me that I’m not sympathetic.

You endorsed him, dear Comrades @ TechCrunch. You voted for him. Don’t like the results of your decision? Either admit your mistake or shut up.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:22:46 +0000

Bush not only held hands with the Saudi king but he kissed him on the cheek. Also, after 9-11 he made special arrangements for the Saudis in the US to fly out of the States while other planes were grounded. So clearly this means that your beloved Bush is a terrorist supporter. Asshat…

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:17:57 +0000

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:17:18 +0000

You’re full of it.

By: ThatSteveGuy

ThatSteveGuy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:11:10 +0000

Why would it surprise anyone when Obama does not follow through on his word?

No more lobbyist
No more partisan politics
No more “business as usual”
No more deficit spending
No more politics of fear

People are going to slowly figure out that they were sold a bill of goods, and there’s going to be a lot of disappointed people when they find out that not only do they still have to pay their own rent/mortgage, but their taxes/energy bills/cost of living have just gone through the roof.

By: Vengu

Vengu — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:27:15 +0000

LOL! LOL!

By: Vengu

Vengu — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:20:50 +0000

@New001 . Dude you surpass charlie chaplin

By: Reg

Reg — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:43:00 +0000

The obvious answer to everything is more government oversight and intervention. That’s what the English Crown said in 1775. What could possibly make something better than government involvement? Those Founding Fathers must have been a real bunch of imbeciles creating an atmosphere of freedom where the corpulent clumsy thumb of government wasn’t squishing every ambitious endeavor into the mud whenever it got the chance. What was wrong with them? Obama’s a freaking genius. Let him do whatever he thinks is best. As for me, he’s my big brother and my mother and my savior. Amen.

By: FireBrand

FireBrand — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:10:58 +0000

How about none of the above?

They all have their own agenda’s that have nothing to do with whats good for the USA. Why the hell would you put a Microsoft anyone in that office? Vint? He’s a good guy, but I wouldn’t call hm the leader of the new technology.

None of these guys are who I would want as a CTO for the USA. Especially not some academic from Princeton or anywhere else.

Find me some person (and where are the women in your list?) who knows their shit, and has the cred to do the JOB. I will be behind that for sure.

Wake up and Smell the Coffee…

By: hugh martin

hugh martin — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:21:30 +0000

Ya whats with that? Question: Is there anyone making good money wking from home right now??? I need to know, looking for a way and a route to fallow. Can you help? HUGH

By: J. Yang

J. Yang — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:40:21 +0000

What, no Jerry Yang?

By: Lawrence Krubner

Lawrence Krubner — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:19:15 +0000

Is America a corporation? Isn’t a CTO something that corporations have? Should America be run as if it was one big corporation? Does every important job in the country need to be raised to the Federal level? Surely there are some tasks that should be left in the private sector?

By: Dbag

Dbag — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:54:18 +0000

Give it to Lessig. He and obama are a perfect fit. And when its all over they can do a buddy cop drama for television, Lessig and Obama in “The Clown and the Con Man”.

By: Erbo

Erbo — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:46:54 +0000

THIS. How many of Hussein al-Chicago’s nominees for various positions have had to step aside because of tax problems (though that didn’t stop Tax Cheat Timmy at Treasury), conflicts of interest, or other problems that we were assured should have been caught in the Most Thorough Vetting Process Evar?

Obama needs to get all the EXISTING jobs filled before he worries about filling a NEW one.