that BBC! at it again....

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"In a rare move for a political unknown, Palin made it personal between the man running for president, Obama, and herself. They are of the same generation: she is 44 to his 47, and represent bipolar extremes."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7624074.stm

As a general reader, I'm accustomed to seeing to very different things referred to as 'polar opposites'.

As a political scientist, I'm familiar with references to a bipolar world.

And of course one is acquainted with the diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

But I think referring to two candidates, or two positions, as being bipolar extremes is rather over-egging the rhetorical pudding.

Jan Spoor

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Bipolar extremes, in that she is very bipolar, and he isn't?

(Hmmm... would that mean she's a HotBiBabe?)