Obama forgets the Dot Com Bust: We're a start-up, Clinton is Microsoft

[rinsd]

"Obama also dismissed doubts that he lacks experience as a chief executive, saying launching his candidacy was akin to launching a $100 million start-up against the "Microsoft of Democratic politics" -- the Clinton campaign -- and raising more money than his main rival and creating a better on-the-ground organization.

Much of the longer experience that other candidates claim, he said, is not in actually governing, but more in campaigning on the national stage."

That's a fascinating metaphor. He's the nimble start-up with the big new idea backed by venture capital money. She's the entrenched and dominant market leader with the monopolistic tendencies who presumably uses her power to stifle the competition.

Of course, this is a metaphor that cuts both ways. The Clinton people, for instance, could run with it and accuse him of peddling vaporware like so many dotcoms of the late 1990s Internet bubble.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/obama_were_a_startup_clinton_i.html

:evilgrin:

[Renew Deal]

1. Obama needs to become Google

[NYCGirl]

2. He is:

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9818268-7.html?tag=nefd.only

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama made an impressive showing at the Googleplex on Wednesday, joking about the casual attire of the audience and correctly answering a standard Google engineering interview question.

Asked by Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt what the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers is, Obama said the wrong way would be the "bubble sort method," which is a basic but inefficient method for sorting numbers. "You answered the question correctly," Schmidt said.

"He's fresh, he's new, there's something about him that's Google-like," Nicole Resz, a 26-year-old who works in Google's advertising department, gushed to Reuters.

"I've never seen so many people at a Google event. We've had everybody, we've had Mikhail Gorbachev," she said.

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[Maven]

3. Oh, Barack, you're such a *rebel*

Oh, wait, no you're not.

Phony.

[HughBeaumont]

4. Clinton is Microsoft -

A bloated near-monopoly who loves free trade and does business with Indian offshoring companies.

Yeah, sounds about right.

[quinnox]

5. Well damn I like microsoft

And I also like Apple Ipod.

So both companies are good to me.

[madrchsod]

6. he`s more like open source and linux...

are the hillary people jealous of his ability to organize and develop a base from the bottom up?

[Maven]

7. You mean high expectations with little mainstream success?

Hmm.

[rinsd]

11. !!!!

Double :spray:

[Fredda Weinberg]

12. From one of those who organized themselves to elect HRC to the Senate

Nope.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

8. This metaphor suggests that Hillary will just buy him out a week before Iowa

[rinsd]

9. !!!

:spray:

[Gman]

10. Obama has a P/E of

maybe 10,000, like the other dot coms that went bust. Lots of vaporware driving up the price.