Thursday, November 29, 2007

Speaking of deconstruction...

Procrastinating once again, this time not wanting to prepare a presentation on Derrida and Foucault. Ack.

So I'm reading the "Issues" statements of certain presidential primary candidates, and comparing them.

One funny thing I'm noticing: under bolded headers, often on the same page, some campaigns haven't decided to go with the first or third-person narrative. It's a funny schizophrenic detail. Under "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" a candidate might write "I believe in the American Dream." But seven lines later, under "Health Care," is written "Smith believes everyone should have quality affordable care." Even on the more in-depth pages where all the headers are points about the same issue! I doubt it's intentional, but who knows? Disassociation with certain issues? Different staffers? No clear communication memo? Hmmm....

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