The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs evidently supported Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency but soured on him when he saw what Obama did during his first couple of years when the new president had a majority in both houses of Congress and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate—meaning when Obama was as Obama-y as an Obama can be:
“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” Jobs said during a meeting with the president that took place a year prior to Jobs’ death related to pancreatic cancer, according to his upcoming biography as reported by the Huffington Post.
Walter Isaacson, who wrote the forthcoming Jobs bio, reportedly reveals that Jobs argued that Obama was jeopardizing his re-election prospects because of what Jobs took to be a pervasive anti-business climate in his administration. Jobs cited excessive federal regulations and operating costs for businesses as harmful legacies of the Obama White House.
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