THE PLANK JULY 2, 2009
-
Read Later
READ LATERAvailable only to subscribers. SUBSCRIBE TODAY
-
Listen
ARTICLE AUDIO
- Font Size
By all accounts Mitt Romney's 2012 bid for the presidency is moving full speed ahead. Last month, he gave a major address in which he laid out his view of international politics--and boy was it convoluted. Channeling the business jargon common at places like Bain Capital, the management consulting firm he founded, Romney tried to break down world politics as if he were giving a PowerPoint strategy presentation to a corporate board.
Which got me thinking, what would Romney's foreign-policy worldview look like if it were depicted visually as a PowerPoint slide? I asked a consultant friend to put together a mock-up. (Click here to read the article, and here to download a full-sized image.)
--Barron YoungSmith
6 comments
Wow, when you render it graphically, you can easily see how LITTLE SENSE IT MAKES.
- dmorehous
July 2, 2009 at 3:31pm
Mitt Romney's explanations of global power gradients are to presidential politics what an account statement from Madoff Investment Securities is to investing.
- csmiller
July 2, 2009 at 4:01pm
I'm waiting for parodies to start showing up on GraphJam.
In the meantime, I think I'll put "Has Freedom?" on a t-shirt.
- bcbaird
July 2, 2009 at 6:08pm
Or get a goofy-looking picture of a cat and give it the caption "can I haz freedom?" It would make at least as much sense.
Obviously this would need to be a whole series of slides. Not that it would make any more sense, mind you.
- cspencef
July 2, 2009 at 6:20pm
According to Mitt's graph, the jihadists are not "malevolent" as only PRNK is blue -- wonder how that's going to go down with the base . . .
- ironyroad
July 2, 2009 at 8:52pm
This looks like something that one of those "Corporate Bullshit Generator" websites would come up with. Another one of those cases where it's hard to distinguish parody from reality.
- gwcross
July 3, 2009 at 4:30pm