My Apple rumor

Disclaimer: I do not want anyone to think that my intent is to make fun of someone's deeply personal life and possible medical challenges. That said...

What if sometime back in 2008- probably toward the end of the first quarter/beginning of the second- Barack Obama reached out to Steve Jobs and made him an offer? What if, working in partnership with a small team of executives from General Motors, Obama had assembled a shadow executive class within the company, comprised of GM's best and brightest, and a few visionary industry outsiders? What if Obama promised this team that, should he win the election, he would orchestrate a scenario in which they would assume responsibility for the company? And what if Obama offered Jobs singular and complete control over this shadow company within a company, and the mandate to do whatever necessary to completely revitalize the US auto industry?

If that were to have happened, it would be conceivable that Jobs would go on a severe diet to lend credibility to the personal illness cover story that had been concocted to explain his eventual need to leave Apple for a period of time toward the end of the covert operation at GM.

Under a scenario like this, sometime within the next few months we'd see a grand public unveiling of the entire operation, along with a business model and product line that would inject the US with a burst of excitement, a grand reintroduction to the world's industrial markets, and an economic revitalization on the order of the end of World War II.

I'd like to think that something like that is possible.