Chris Goodrich

All of these new Microsoft Ads are beginning to cause an epic internal struggle for me.

Most recently, Microsoft released an ad that proclaims by many different types of people that “I’m a PC.”  These ads are in direct response to Apple’s brilliant ads that proclaim “Hi, I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC…”

You may be asking yourself why this might be causing an internal struggle for me?  Well, like our Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, I don’t come from a single side of this segregation.  I am both a Mac and a PC.  Can this even be true?

Why must we constantly attempt to segregate our society and try to classify people by any type of characteristic?  Please don’t judge me for my platform preference, I am just as human as you are.  Can’t I just be Chris, Chris who is not defined by his platform preferences?

In the (slightly modified) words of Sen. Barack Obama during the 2004 Democratic National Convention:

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us — the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of “anything goes.” Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America. There is not a Mac America and a PC America — there’s the United States of America.

And in the (slightly modified) words of our forefathers:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty the pursuit of their favorite platform.

Therefore I must vote YES on Prop 546841:  The constitutional ban on divisive operating system advertisements.

Let us be who we are; whether that be a Mac, a PC, or what about Linux?  Can you please not judge me for my platform preference.