STYLES make fights — or so goes the boxing cliché. In 2008, they make presidential campaigns, too.
This is especially true for the two remaining Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Reporters covering the candidates have already resorted to traditional analysis of style — fashion choices, manner of speaking, even the way they laugh. Yet, according to design experts, the candidates have left a clear blueprint of their personal style — perhaps even a window into their souls — through the Web sites they have created to raise money, recruit volunteers and generally meet-and-greet online.
On one thing, the experts seem to agree. The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC…
Emily Chang, the cofounder of Ideacodes, a Web designing and consulting firm, detected consistent messages, and summed them up: “His site is more youthful and hers more regal.”
I guess I’ll have to look at the websites and see if the analogy is apt. Regardless, it’s still worth a chuckle.
That leaves McCain as a DEC Alpha, Romney as an IBM PC jr – and Huckabee as an abacus.
According to Googlefight, Clinton wins by a landslide: http://tinyurl.com/2janlx
So this would mean that Obama looks good, but if you want to do real work you need to vote for Hillary?
#2 – Another authoritative source, eh?
If this is true………shit…. Jeb Bush is not planing to run, is he?
Cheers
keane-o said
#2 – Another authoritative source, eh?
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Yeah, more reliable then the corporate MSM, as far as I’m concerned.
Like I said, authoritative – not:
http://tinyurl.com/34doyu
– or for the libertarian True Believers:
http://tinyurl.com/2m84lz
What a stupid analogy. These 2 candidates are too closely matched to be Mac & PC because Mac only has about 3% of the market and would be a dead loser in any election.
How fatuous of us to think everything can be seen in terms of our favorite technologies and it just doesn’t work this time.
You can’t treat people like machines and have a happy world.
My favorite thing on the Obama site that it is “Powered by hope.” Hope about what? That 75 years worth of chickens won’t come home to roost while he’s in the White House?
It doesn’t matter anyway…
These are the people who are going to elect the next president of the US. Oh, and speaking of Obama, check it out from about 1:00.
God help US!
Cheers
Calling Hilary “PC” after that whole attacking the race thing? That’s a stretch
! Sorry I had to do it.
Much more appropriate analogy would be to compare them with the leaders of the past…
Say, who of the leaders during WWII would map on these characteristics:
-Great orator with charisma but little substance who gathered whole nation to follow him blindly?
-Great administrator with the vicious temper and intolerance for unsubordination?
And where is that Democratic candidate who served with the success in United Nations, led Department of Energy during critical restructuring and picked his state as a Governor from severe problems with economy, unemployment and illegal immigration to a booming place? Well, he’s apparently too qualified to compete.
Just venting…
Obama is a homebrew PC!
Both are Lisas.
Idealistic but totally unusable.