Comments on: The Obama Valley Dinner: POTUS Got the Seating Chart Wrong

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By: another John

another John — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:05:59 +0000

You've really got something against Apple/Jobs doncha?

Sheesh, talk about Kremlinolgy from back in the pre-Perstroika days, and reading tea leaves in the Pravda/Isvesita photos.

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By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:59:13 +0000

With all due respect John, I don’t think the White house is technically savvy enough to grasp the whole data / open source concept and do a strategic analysis of each company’s position on the matter when arranging a seating chart. Obama, is the lowet paid in that room. Perhaps they went by biggest campaign donor’s or something as simple as drawing names from a hat. Not everything requires that much analysis. Besides, it’s not the Last Supper, it’s just a dinner.

By: Katherine Bull

Katherine Bull — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:00:47 +0000

@John It is a good observation about status. Telling people “I sat next to the President at dinner” is a big one. More so for Zuckerberg than Steve, I think.

The bigger question is whether there was a pre-dinner cocktail party. I’m sure there was plenty of 1:1 time there if it was long enough.

If I had been invited to that party/dinner, I’d have put a pack of Marlboros in my purse and invited him outside for a smoke Certainly that would’ve gotten me some 1:1 time.

Then again, my days as a reporter scheming to get access are just a memory now. Now, as an acquisitions editor at Pearson, I still have a few tricks up my sleeve to try and sign authors to write a book for me.

Katherine

By: mrg

mrg — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:21:05 +0000

POTUS is going to try to get re-elected last i heard. I’d love for somebody inside the beltway to annotate that pic with $$ figures above each head. Maybe it already exists?

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By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:12:39 +0000

Interesting Bay Area-centric analyses.

But POTUS handlers likely focused on the optics for that oft-forgotten non-Bay Area constituency. And given that, the analysis probably went something like this: there are two cool attendees besides POTUS, Jobs and Zuckerberg. Everyone knows Steve's story, and Zuckerberg is the man of the year, for crying out loud. Put them next to the prez. Everybody else is noise. Except Google -- people are getting worried about them, even in Peoria, so we don't want POTUS to seem too cozy with Schmidt, so put him far away.

By: Ralph Haygood

Ralph Haygood — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:20:29 +0000

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By: John

John — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:19:35 +0000

@Katherine, you make a good point. It was key that Larry and Doerr have eye contact with POTUS, for sure. But I think sitting next to has more status….