08 Jan 2004 | Darrel said...

I liked the bush in 30 seconds idea, but felt the finalists were a bit weak. A lot of them were the same ol' 'bash the other side with slander' type of ads...the very thing I thought something like this would try to avoid.

Oh well. That's politics, I guess.

09 Jan 2004 | Don Schenck said...

The "Child's Pay" and "In My Country" are great.

The rest are typical dreck lies, half-truths and scare tactics.

09 Jan 2004 | Darrel said...

Child's Pay was perhaps my favorite in terms of just being a succesful, polished ad. It stuck to one issue, was creative, had style, and, well, had cute kids.

That one issue is an important one too...not one of the Red Herring issues (like the 'he lied!' one.)

I did like the Mac one just in terms of being overly cute.

I was hoping to see one that really focused on the environment better. I think the dems should be focusing more on that than Bush's Iraq policy. I think most people have already made up their minds re: if Iraq was a good thing or not, but so many people aren't aware of the damage the current Administration is doing to our environmental laws.

09 Jan 2004 | pek said...

What both parties should be looking into is why we are standing around while all of our manufacturing jobs are going overseas. As of today, Levi's are no longer American made - 800 jobs in the toilet.

10 Jan 2004 | ek said...

As of today, Levis aren't even made by Levis (Levis no longer owns any of its own manufacturing facilities -- it's all contracted out to third parties).

I wonder if this ongoing "jobless recovery" will wake people up to this phenomenon. At what point does the never ending quest for increased profitability become self defeating?

Henry Ford realized pretty early on that, unless there are people out there who can afford to buy your product, you're not going to be in very good shape as a corporation.

We can only defy gravity for so long.

10 Jan 2004 | Kristoffer Bohmann said...

Looks like the 37signals crew is more interested in promoting socialism than usability. Do you also compare Bush to Hitler as MoveOn.org does?

Hallelujah!

11 Jan 2004 | Confutatis said...

Actually 37signals blog is not meant only to talk about usability. Maybe next time you should make your case a little more concrete. And actually come to think about it, some of the 37signals crew seems to be conservative like you. By the way capitalism and Microsoft are as related as is bug-free and Microsoft.

Das Boot

13 Jan 2004 | Kristoffer Bohmann said...

Dr. Confutatis is right. I completely misread Matthew Linderman's entry. I apologize for this, Matthew Linderman and 37signals crew.

Could you please delete my two comments on this page. Thanks.

PS: Confutatis, capitalism and capitalists are not opposites. How can a market be free if the most successful player in the market is restrained by goverment action? This hard core capitalist quiz will illustrate my viewpoints.

Das Boot

13 Jan 2004 | RS said...

How can a market be free if...

Lakoff has interesting thoughts in "The 'free market' doesn't exist".

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