But would you want Princess Diana running the US Treasury?

I ask the question because President Obama has offered up some cove called Jack Lew to be his next Secretary of the Treasury.  I know nothing about Mr. Lew other than two things.  First, he cannot manage joined-up writing, it is quite beyond him, as his signature indicates:

 

Now, I am not unsympathetic to Mr. Lew's plight because in this age of electronic typing and the fact that signing cheques has almost disappeared, I, too, have to pause and think before I sign anything.  However, Mr. Lew, as Secretary to the Treasury, has to sign every single dollar bill that is produced - well, he doesn't sign each and every one, of course, but his signature is reproduced, and frankly, the signature above might confirm to the world what it has suspected for some time that the kids have taken over the financial nursery in Washington!  The only good thing about it is that you might be able to check the validity of your dollar bills by counting the whorls and loops which are likely to fool your average counterfeiter.

The second problem with Mr. Lew's infantile scribble is that according to RT.com, a handwriting expert has analysed it and come to the conclusion that:

Jack Lew might be the cuddly type.

“Such  strokes are common among those who prefer a   ‘softer’ approach to  problem-solving,” the newspaper quotes Kathi   McKnight as saying. She  also concluded that the signature is similar in   style to the  handwriting of Princess Diana.

My advice?  Short the dollar - quick!

 

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Comments

[Hank]

David

I took one of the hand writing personality analysis things once.

I turned the paper 90 degrees half way through.

The tester was confused, the first half showed one personality, the second half showed a very different personality.

I would think that fact Mr. Lew is nominated by President Obama tells us all we want to know about him without resorting to psychobabble.

http://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/
Hank’s Eclectic Meanderings

[JK]

Oh I dunno - Mr. Lew's looping a few zeroes together seems to make perfect sense. In a metaphorical way.

That zeroes would appear on our tenders is kinda like NASA letting the rest of the world in on the secret.

Shines a little light on the subject, I say.

[Whyaxye]

My theory is that it says "We got Bin Laden, and we'll get you too if you mess around" in demotic Arabic.

[Jimmy Glesga]

David. I thought off Mr Woo what can we do from Tinker T.

[David Duff]

So, Hank, which of your two personalities writes to D&N?!

JK, if he added a few more zero-like whorls it would look like the American national debt!