Wednesday, August 6, 2008

OBAMA IS A BOX OF TIDE

SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS TO CREATE A BRAND THAT WILL CLEAN UP ALL OF AMERICA’S ISSUES? I THINK NOT!

Imagine this country as a company and that we are all shareholders. If this were the case the executives and board of directors would be indicted and many of them would go to jail. Now suppose the CEO interviewing for the job makes promises that can’t possibly be kept and delivers strategies and insane plans to solve all of the corporation’s problems that can’t work even under the best of circumstances. Add pandering each hot topic d’jour to us like we are children with no education as to how the company runs. Finally, no experience as an executive, no fiscal background, no international experience, no defense or security background and a light resume in the government with no articulate workable strategy to run the company.

Would you hire this person to run your company? Would you be led by the nose and buy into branding, hype and rhetoric focused on making you believe whatever is fed to you? How about strategic advice like taxing successful companies, cutting 1000 dollar checks back to shareholder with no way to actually make it happen, delivering your covert strategies and proprietary information to your enemies and throwing the current President and Presidential contender under the bus in front of the whole world. There is so much more. I ask you, would you vote to have this person run your company?

I am appalled at best to hear politicians, especially Obama, come out time and time again with absolute garbage and frankly ideas that I believe worsen our already fragile economy. But many Americans just eat it up and ask for seconds. Well I am not buying one piece of the BS being thrown out about oil, deficit, war, politics, china, mortgages and what is “GOOD” for your family and this country. Asking career public servants or politicians and people with absolutely no experience to solve an energy crisis, bank failures and international problems is like throwing rocks at the sun.

We need to wake up and recognize that if politicians want your opinion they are happy to spend a few hundred million dollars per campaign cycle to give it to you so they can have your vote. Well here is my opinion. We should all write in and vote for Tide, yes a box of soap – or soap box if you like or the Obama brand of detergent. Hey at least Tide is a brand we trust. I bet if Americans were queried overwhelmingly they would say they don’t trust government or the politicians just see Congress’ approval rating. Also, Tide cleans really good and I think we all agree that not only the politicians’ mouths should be washed out with soap but DC should be too. And Tide gets the stains out! Wow sounds like a great leader, so let’s elect that to run our country and to lead the free world.

Unfortunately, the population is swayed by branding and excited about its newest brand, a rock star candidate that has done one of the best branding jobs I’ve ever seen. Whether it’s the “Where’s the beef” actor, Barney, Barack the Builder or a box of Tide, we have been reduced to consumers of Political Products and fascinated by the entertainment value of the Political TV we eat up every night.

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