Sunday, May 11, 2008

The exterior package meaning more than what's inside...

Following on the theme of us expecting perfection in our candidates that at times borders on unrealistic expectations, the judgemental nature of how we critique the dress and appearance of candidates has also made me ponder how superficial we are as a nation. Rather than focus on what the candidates plans are or their qualifications, we critique their dress, their showing of clevage, their haircuts making them focus on running to get acne treatment at the first sign of an inopportune pimple as opposed to communicating what they can do to make this country better.

Perhaps in some ways the days before television did have it's purpose, since there was not the ability to show the same clip repeatedly of one moment and people actually read the whole speeches in print, or the audio only so that the decision was based on the actual content as opposed to how it was packaged...

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