“Not long after Barack Obama entered the presidential race last February, there appeared on YouTube a parody of the famed 1984 Macintosh ad in which Hillary Clinton was portrayed as Big Brother. It all seemed a bit heavy handed at the time but in the months since the Apple analogy has grown stronger and not weaker,” Matt Cooper writes for Portfolio.com.
Direct link via YouTube here.
Apple stock more than doubed last year as the company became the sine qua non of hip and cool. Itss white-background TV ads gently mocked the PC-and-Microsoft world rather than treating it as a totalitarian ruler. Isn’t that the same cool-and-confident tone that Obama had shown in recent months? He derides the Clinton campaign–where my spouse is a senior adviser–and belittles it gently but devastatingly. I had enough confidence in Apple last year to buy some stock when it was at $75 but as it approached $100 I dumped it fearing that it couldn’t rise any higher. Oops. It went on to $200,” Cooper writes.
“If I misjudged the Apple rise to astonishing heights, the entire political world misjudged Obama,” Cooper writes.
“Hillary Clinton is Dell. The Austin-based computer maker was hottest thing in the 90s, like the Clintons. Since then it’s fallen on harder times, although it’s hardly gone the way of Atari or Commodore or other computer relics. It’s still a strong brand with a thriving following. But it’s not Apple,” Cooper writes.
Full article here.
Ron Paul!
Also, obligatory:
In Soviet Russia computer votes YOU!
Mitt Romney all the way. the only candidate that has experience breaking the MSFT grip on government IT. In MA, he converted all government office documents over to Open Office, saving the state millions in licensing fees. Go Mitt!
Huckabee, or at least his staff, are Mac!
I saw a picture in the NY Times a month or so ago, with two staffers using Mac laptops – Apple clearly visible.
Disclaimer: I am not endorsing Huckabee, or any other candidate at this time.
Actually, HRClinton is Microsoft.
A few month ago, she reported her financial interests. She had a big holding of (going nowhere fast) Microsoft stock. No holdings of Apple listed. Of course she also has big holdings of WalMart too,
this is dumb, and so is MDN for posting this.
Not to change the subject from this gripping, and oh-so clever political exchange, but for those of you who watched the Bill Gates Last Day at Work video from yesterday’s CES, do you think Al Gore touched base with Steve Jobs prior to agreeing to appear in that video? I don’t think Jobs would have objected. I just wonder if Al felt he needed to make that phone call before yucking it up Bill Gates for a big Microsoft keynote.
… And the Bush family is Microsoft.
Wrong! They’re CP/M
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
Huckabee is the abacus. He’s the one to bring middle ages mentality back in the debates.
Fox is Apple. CNN, MSNBC, the three major (hahahahaha) networks are all Windows whacko’s.
Excellent! Just what I wanted: More political crap on a Mac news site. Thanks a lot MDN.
What a waste of time.
This author should be reminded that Steve Jobs let the Clintons stay in one of his houses while it was unoccupied and they were in town…
Computer brands don’t deserve the defamation this thread is offering. This thread, while a bit comical and light-headed, appears to add to the trivial nature of the campaigning we’ve thus far experienced. Well, you all may deserve a bit of fun but, please, get more serious soon about the choices you will be making.
Nunn, Bloomberg, et al, are meeting this week to outline the issues not being addressed by the candidates mentioned within this thread. It might pay to keep an ear tuned to this potential campaign conflagration being aimed (gambled) at a center coalition.
Let’s face a fact; any sensible candidate would likely be pleased to be associated with Apple’s brand (and not to the other brands).
Hoo boy…I guess we should be grateful it’s not SteveJack’s own column this time…Pretty pathetic that you’d want to remind us all of your laughable Bush=Mac, Clinton=Windows piece from 2002…Where’s the Republican-Democrat claptrap you did though…Here’s a suggestion…STOP WITH THE F**KING POLITICS ALREADY!! This is supposed to be about computers…not your Republican flagwaving…it’s particularly galling to non-American readers…What’s next, links to Conservapedia? Really lame guys…really lame..as bad as the Bush Cheney 04 ads you had up here (and don’t try to claim it was “bought”)…OK, I feel better now…
@lordofskies – you don’t come here very often, do you..?
“Nunn, Bloomberg, et al, are meeting this week to outline the issues not being addressed by the candidates “
Like Trans Fat free diets???
Oh Goodie!!!
Great, except Obama is Muslim.
> Comment from: theloniousMac:
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> I don’t care if the beeyatch strapped iPods to her privates and iPhones to her cheeks and danced in an Apple ad whilst reciting from Mac OS X Internals, I wouldn’t vote for her.
I don’t agree with the phrase but I’ve really laughed at this! It’s a great post.
This thread gives us a good indication as to why Apple only has 8% of the market.
It is true indeed – The biggest problem with Apple is the childish fanboys who roam the net insulting everyone who doesn’t use one…
Pathetic
“Yes, Buhlack Obama uses a Mac so that makes him a good candidate? Wait til you pay so much taxes you can’t afford another Mac. lmao.”
what color is the sky in your world?
the only people who got “tax relief” under the bush cut are those making over 600,000 a year.
i know, i married on economist, and we make more than that in our household. we did rather well under bush. none of my family members, all making less, can say the same.
think before you post….
Big Mac…
No he isn’t, and – even if he was – why does this make any difference?
Oh I forgot, all Muslims are the bogeymen for your kind because you don’t believe in observing anything beyond the most superficial of information.
God, there are some ignorant dipshits on this site.
Follow along a little closer, Big Mac. Obama is not a Muslim.
Obama is all bluster and no substance. If Hillary doesn’t win the nomination than the Republicans will win. My guess is that McCain will be the next President.
Yeah, McCain will be the next president of the Bush taint fanclub, since that’s where he spends most of his time.
@ DaveEGo
“Then which computer is Fred Thompson?, John Edwards?, Mike Huckabee?, etc.?”
Mike Huckabee:
Edison Mazda.
John Edwards:
A Linux laptop. Looks great, full of promise, but not very useful
Fred Thompson:
Russians don’t take a dump, son, without a plan.
@ Actually
Spoken like a wise, learned chimp. Bravo.