Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Valid point, sort of
A snarky takedown of all the major candidate logos by a logo designer. Well, all except one. He clearly likes Hillary because she's the winner and has a D on her shirt.
Along with the snarkiness, the author sort of slides up to an important point but doesn't quite get there.
For Carly Fiorina's logo he says:
Meaning: We'll outsource government to China
Integration: As well integrated as a printer driver
Leads to an unstated point: Fiorina is the only candidate in living memory who has done work that ordinary Americans can directly judge. She has run a company badly, and most of us have experience with her bad products.
Repooflicans constantly talk about "meeting a payroll". I've debunked the idea. This qualification would have kicked out every 20th century president except Truman. He's the only one who actually ran a business before he was pulled into politics. A couple of others (Carter, Bush The Son) symbolically "ran" businesses, but they weren't really in charge. Reagan spent many years working for corporations but was never in charge. [A better rule would be broader and simpler: candidates should be new to professional politics. Boss, employee, idler, thief, housewife, whore. All are equally preferable to politics.]
Fiorina was truly in charge of a major business, and unlike Truman's KC hat store, it's a business that most of us have dealt with.
My own direct experience with HP is comparatively positive. After getting tired of expensive ink in HP printers, I tried Kodak which was supposedly cheaper. Nope, Kodak turned out to be horribly designed, physically rejecting most refilled ink cartridges and even some factory-made cartridges. I finally gave up and went back to HP, which complains about refills but lets them work.
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