that BBC! at it again....
Sep. 19th, 2008 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadger"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
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
