Obama gets backing of Google CEO Schmidt
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Silicon Valley heavyweight Google, plans to campaign on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
On Tuesday, just two weeks before Election Day on November 4, Schmidt will join Sen. Obama at an event in Florida to moderate a panel on the economy, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Schmidt has unofficially been advising the Obama campaign on technology and energy matters.
Eric Schmidt addresses bloggers at the Democratic National Convention in August.
(Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET Networks)Schmidt says the endorsement of a party nominee is his own, and not a statement on behalf of his company. "I'm doing this personally," he said in an interview with the Journal. "Google is officially neutral."
In August, Schmidt made an appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, though not on the main stage. Rather, he took questions from bloggers in the Big Tent workspace outside the convention center, where he said Obama got a big boost in his campaign efforts from the Internet.
Google has drawn the attention of antitrust regulators in Washington for a proposed advertising deal with fellow Internet giant Yahoo, though the Justice Department has yet to take or recommend any formal action.
Schmidt addressed that issue in his interview with the Journal. "My sense is, the Justice Department makes judgments on these issues independent of politics," he said.
On Sunday, Obama got a surprise endorsement from Colin Powell, who earlier served as secretary of state under President Bush.
Sen. John McCain, Obama's Republican rival, has the backing of Silicon Valley notables including Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, and Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Google was not immediately available to comment on the Journal report.
Jonathan Skillings is managing editor of CNET News, based in the Boston bureau. He's been with CNET since 2000, after a decade in tech journalism at the IDG News Service, PC Week, and an AS/400 magazine. He's also been a soldier and a schoolteacher. E-mail Jon. 
What? That BS statement if I have ever seen one. We know that not true. Justice Department dropping the lawsuit against Microsoft, but then going after Google... I don't know call me crazy if Justice Department isn't playing favorites. Don't get me wrong I am not saying the Justice Department shouldn't investigate Google merger. But they should be going after Microsoft with a vengance and they are not.
Schmidt seems to forget the Clinton administration went after Microsoft, Bush administration wrapped up the case giving MS a break.
Microsoft and Yahoo should see this as just what they needed to gain some ground on these guys at google.
Technology companies should keep this in mind just like hollywood, we don't need you to tell us how to vote and whom to vote for. Doing so when hurt you and your business.
Yahoo should be careful about doing business or considering it with google.
I now fully support MS and Yahoo in their efforts to gain market share from google.
Advertisers of google should keep this issue in focus.
Besides, what are you going to do when you find out that a lot of Microsoft and Yahoo employees also back Obama? Stop searching?
And then what will you do when nearly 50% of employees of all companies in America vote for Obama? Stop participating in society?
[CNET editors' note: personal attack deleted]
If you believe that, i have an ice skiiing resort in Nigeria I wanna sell ya. It's a snip at just $100 million.
Of course Eric Schmidt has made a deal with Obambi over their attempt to co-opt Yahoo and create an anti-consumer monopoly in the search market.
Obambi is the most corrupt presidential candidate I have ever seen. his a a guy that trained the voer fraud vermin at ACORN (the biggerst voter fraud outfit on the entire planet), and this is a guy came through the Chicago Democratic Party machine, unviersally acknowledgeed as the most corrupt political machine in this county for decades.
Nothing new here.
(If I Only Had A Brain, Wizard of Oz)
WilliamBanzai7
He could while away the hours, conferrin' with his pal Palin
"Gee this innovat'n is a drain"
And his head he'd be scratchin' while
his thoughts were busy hatchin'
If McCain only had his own brain.
He'd unravel every economic riddle for any individ'le,
In trouble or in pain.
With the thoughts he'd be thinkin'
he could be another Lincoln
If McCain only had his own brain.
Oh, he could tell you why the facts are to be ignored.
He could think of things he'd never thunk before.
And then he'd sit, and think some more.
He would not be just a nothin' his head all full of neo-con stuffin'
His heart all full of pain.
It would not be dumber and dumber,
He'd be smarter than an unlicensed plumber
If McCain only had his own brain.
williambanzai7.blogspot.com/
You wouldn't be yet another member of the Obambi trained, Obambi financed ACORN ( the biggest election fraud exponents in the history of this country), will you?
You sound like one of the Stalinist, moronic, zombie like, "Obama Youth" corps to me.
Just like "Google officially discourages being 'evil'"
At the time, I wasn't happy about it because I figured it meant the company supported Republicans as a political party.
But no, just like any other busines, they are there to make money. And I have no dobut that if the Democrats hadn't partnered with Microsoft for thier convention, that Google would have instead.
So much for your theory.
Unlike the greedy republicans you associate with, some people are willing to sacrifice some of their own wealth so that the less fortunate may survive.
Even conservative economists say that Obama's plan is the better.
Crawl back under your rock.
Because someone, independent of their company as he clarified, decides to support a candidate, you boycott that company?
So should I boycott every company everywhere where there are employees supporting McCain? Should I boycott eBay because of Meg Whitman (who is still on their board)?
No, because:
1). People should have the right to support the candidate of their choice. That's what America is all about.
2). I'm smart enough to realize that what Schmidt or Whitman do outside their companies is just that: outside their companies.
3). It would just be plain silly to boycott companies because of who their employees (outside of work) support. As long as the company is neutral, I'm okay with whomever their employees decide to support.
Does MaggieRed wish to silence anyone who dares have a different opinion than her on which candidate they support? Sure seems like it, and hey... that's not the America I know and love.
So go ahead MaggieRed, boycott Google. It's your right. Let's see how far that gets you.
Wow. People should remember that CEO's are people that will vote too, so what if they say "I'll vote for candidate X or Y"? They have the right, so do you.
Now, if suddently at google.com you see an ad that says "Vote for Obama" or "Google is with Obama", then you might want to say that it's wrong but for now it's just a guy (important and popular guy) sayin'. Not his company as he clearly explained.
Boycott whom ever you want, no one is stopping you. But I did not say anything about silencing your voice. I stated that I choose not to support them because their CEO is using the press to influence the vote. Imagine if you make a press release that your supporting whomever, think CNET will publish that of course not same for me. But let the CEO of a major company do that and he will sway votes.
He made a stupid statement that he is worry about the Justice department. Why because he is operating borderline in violation of anti-trust laws, I simply reminded viewers of my comment that it was the Clinton administration (Democrat) that went after Microsoft, the Bush administration minimized the case against MS and wrapped it up. Bush is pro-big business, yet his remarks make it sound like the opposite is true, manipulating the vote.
Find with me whomever he wants to support. There are lots of people on both sides of the political spectrum that volunteer but they don't use their major corporations to sway a vote. Schmidt is doing just that.
So svk1069 and cmicaro, you two sort of went off the deep end, which is typical of democrats and liberals trying to silence the opposing view. I stated I choose not to support google and you attacked me for my position.
Apparently the America you love is one where no one else can have a view point and express themselves. Typical liberal.
Eric Schmidt goes and makes a deal with Comrade Obambi, the most hard line leftist candidate in the history of this country, accolyte of the biggest domestic terrorist this country has ever known, Bill Ayers, and disciple of the most rabidly anti-American, anti-white "Pastor" in this country, Jeremiah Wight, just so Obambi(should he enter the White house), will go easy on Google when Google contines screw cunsumers in America, by effectively taking over Yahoo?
Thi sis merely yet another reason(amongst thousands), to make sure Comrade Obambi, aka Joseph Stalin, doesn't enter the white House.
"The New World Order"? Obama already has "The Global Povert Act" on the Senate floor.
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c1108iLQ4J::
This directly ties us to The European Union, and then, A New World Order, next, a One World Religion and the Apocolypse! People, do some searching on WHO Obama is and what He is DOING. Not what He is SAYING.
I happen to be a semi-active member of a political party in my own country, so I have particular political views. Many businesses that I might buy from in my daily personal business have known public links to parties other than the one I support, either directly (through corporate donations) or through senior individuals within them. But it's irrelevant. If I do think about it, I think it doesn't matter: in general, I forget the politics or religion of the business or its owners, and just worry about whether they serve me well. Dealing with a firm does NOT imply support for whatever political views any of its senior management may have. Similarly, I have worked under someone who was an active member of a political party other than the one I support, and have dated people with different political and/or religious inclinations to my own. It doesn't and shouldn't matter, because what I want out of these relationships with other people is nothing to do with their politics or mine.
I have not said anything about my own political inclinations, because these are irrelevant. Nor am I saying you're not entitled to boycott Google. What I am saying is that this sort of petty gesture politics makes you look absurd and intolerant.
- by keeef091 January 16, 2009 2:05 AM PST
- Dr. Eric Schmidt has very many mafia friends, some of whom produce p_rn, even child p_rn from captive women and children, which is how Google got sued for profiteering from deliberatly promoted child p_rnography & why they withheld the identities of child p_rn distributors from police. http://endmafia.com
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