Everyone has a personal philosophy, even those who are oblivious to what it might be. The more fortunate are able to sculpt their personal philosophies by education and conscious effort, but even then, the choice of philosophy is often only a matter creating a sophisticated justification for what already exists in primal form.

Wired recently published a long article on "How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong". "Wrong" in this case, simply means different for how everybody else in Silicon Valley operates. At the heart of "wrongness" of Apple is Steve Jobs.

All this plays to Steve Jobs' strengths. No other company has proven as adept at giving customers what they want before they know they want it. Undoubtedly, this is due to Jobs' unique creative vision. But it's also a function of his management practices. By exerting unrelenting control over his employees, his image, and even his customers, Jobs exerts unrelenting control over his products and how they're used. And in a consumer-focused tech industry, the products are what matter. "Everything that's happening is playing to his values," says Geoffrey Moore, author of the marketing tome Crossing the Chasm. "He's at the absolute epicenter of the digitization of life. He's totally in the zone."

Its not like Jobs sat down an actually created his management style as a matter of contemplation--its simply an extension of his own peculiarities, like taking not one, but two handicap parking spaces for his Mercedes when all the regular spaces near the door are occupied and he's running late. Apple's legendary secrecy, its relentless perfectionism were first part of Job's personality before they became corporate culture.

The irony of the left's criticism of the debate as frivolous, is that it has long been completely obvious that it is in fact the debate on the so-called issues that is the real irrelevancy. Obama's now famous back alley assurances to the Canadian ambassador make a mockery of his so-called positions on trade policy. No one seriously believes that either Clinton or Obama are going to pull out the troops out of Iraq any time soon in spite of their vigorous assurances that such are their intentions.

In the end, the clear facts about either candidates character and personal philosophy are perhaps the best information we have about how a new president might govern the administration.