Comments on: A pity for Yahoo that John McCain didn't win

Making up for a lost decade has to be Job No. 1. And that means getting someone at the top who won't march Yahoo around in wrong directions again.

[cstorm6]

THAT IS COMPLETE "BS" yahooooooooooooooooooooooo.............WAS ALL OBAMA
JUST LOOK AT THE STORIES THEY HAD ON THEIR FRONT PAGES DURING THE LAST 3 MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTION.....ALL PRO OBAMA

I THINK YAHOO SINGLE HANDEDLY GOT THE GUY ELECTED......YAHOO IS A TOOL AND NOT THE TOOL YOU USE TO LEARN.

I HAVE SWITCHED TO GOOGLE B/C IF THIS FACT NO WOUNDER THEIR LOOKING FOR SOMEONE NEW

[tacit]

You missed the point of the story. The point was that if Obama had lost, he'd be a good candidate to be Yahoo's next CEO. :P

[Apacheking]

Soty of Sour grapes. Wasnt Google's Eric Schmit someone who supported Obama. What happened. The truth is Yang was greedy when MS came up with the offer. After being accused of being a Monopoly you cant blame MS to use th same stick to beat Google. What goes aroung come around...Unfortunately for Yahoo is was up thier A$$.

[JCPayne]

Hmmm. Republicans still haven't gotten over it yet? awwww poor babies...

[JCPayne]

Well there's always that Mormon guy Romney.

[carlg113]

Ok Ok. I'm an Obama supporter but this headline is a little ridiculous. This story had absolutley nothing to to with Obama, Mccain or politics at all. I love you guys at cnet but please dont cheapshot your conservative readers. One thing the US needs right now is UNITY.

[ferretboy88]

Very well said. Good luck to your guy Obama.

[Jbw1291]

Heartily seconded.

[wango2007]

At $4 per share, Steve Ballmer will be the next Yahoo superstar. He'll take it to $300/share or more as Microsoft become the company destined to pound Google.

[Dalkorian]

LOL! Are you here all week? ;-)

[ferretboy88]

All the stories are anti Republican. I don't believe for a second that they wanted McCain to win. Go to any tech website and they all were pulling for Obama. Hak5, Revision3,cranky geeks, Cnet(owned by CBS=tried to slander Bush by lying about his sevice record. then fired Dan Rather because he is a idiot).

[Eludium-Q36]

Looks like something Steve Jobs should go after, if for nothing else to feed his ego for another 10 years -- at least he'd turn Yahoo around and make it a force to be reckoned with again. But then again, should a company called "Yahoo" really exist in 2008 ?! It was "cute" early on, but now ?

[open-mind]

As long as we're on the subject of Obama, looks like this will be a pretty interesting documentary about media mind control:

http://www.howobamagotelected.com/

[Lestaticho]

There is an error in your blog. Everywhere you see McCain, it should say Obama. You did say superstar, right? Part of McCain?s campaign strategy in the general election was to smear Obama for getting so many people to his rallies?did somebody say ?Berlin??

McCain does not know how to use a laptop, much less surf the World Wide Web (much less know anything ?tech?.) Comparing McCain?s gaffes and management skills to Obama is laughable. Remember, McCain lost. The maverick was no more; it was only until after the election that he finally came back. You also forgot to cite that Obama is the first tech-savvy president ever and that he is also appointing a tech-czar for the first time. Not only does Obama trump McCain in all categories, but we can also add ?tech? to the bunch. It?s alright, you?re not ready. Injecting fantasies into an otherwise reasonable discussion is meaningless. I can see that the truth is hard to swallow. Thankfully, the country got it right for once.

[Lestaticho]

There is an error in your blog. Everywhere you see McCain, it should say Obama. You did say superstar, right? Part of McCain's campaign strategy in the general election was to smear Obama for getting so many people to his rallies--did somebody say "Berlin?"

McCain does not know how to use a laptop, much less surf the World Wide Web (much less know anything "tech".) Comparing McCain's gaffes and management skills to Obama is laughable. Remember, McCain lost. The maverick was no more; it was only until after the election that he finally came back. You also forgot to cite that Obama is the first tech-savvy president ever and that he is also appointing a tech-czar for the first time. Not only does Obama trump McCain in all categories, but we can also add "tech" to the bunch. It?s alright, you?re not ready. Injecting fantasies into an otherwise reasonable discussion is meaningless. I can see that the truth is hard to swallow. Thankfully, the country got it right for once.

[Jbw1291]

You, sir, totally missed the point of the post. Read it again.

[athrillofhope]

Well, it is only a pity for Yahoo that Obama can not take the helm of their business if what Yahoo wants an inexperienced politician who has produced nothing, achieved nothing for anyone besides himself, and thinks the economic solution is Marx's "redistribution of wealth" paradigm, namely via supporting, along with the rest of the Democratically-controlled Congress, Clinton's legacy of "sub-prime lending" policies that largely got us into this economic mess to begin with.

Sounds like a formula for failure.

Superstars do not make sound fiscal policy. This concept of the author has the trappings of Hewlet-Packard's failed alliance with Carly Fiona. She was hired largely because of her "superstar" status. In the end, what they found worked was conservative, solid, logical business practices honed over decades of experience--which is what they have now at the helm of HP.

I guess what this points to is that the author will take any opportunity to worship at the footstool of the liberal and at the same time take a shot at the conservative (consistent with the media treatment during all elections, though). This, or the author has no idea what sound fiscal policy is. Or both.