Mind-Bending Political Slogan of the Moment

Political Tautology

I don’t know anything at all about Cesar Ascarrunz other than what I read right here, but his campaign slogan got my attention — because it made my brain hurt.

Follow along: “You Always Have a Choice to Decide.” So if I choose not to decide, is that a choice too? Are there other choices? And what should I choose when I decide to make my choice? Or do I decide to choose what to decide? And aren’t a choice and a decision kind of the same thing? So isn’t this a tautological statement? And is tautology good political strategy?

Cesar Ascarrunz has chosen a slogan that spins your brain like a rhetorical Mobius strip — which suggests to me that he may actually have what it takes to succeed as mayor of San Francisco.

10 thoughts on “Mind-Bending Political Slogan of the Moment

  1. I’d like to know who is managing his campaign. Maybe it’s Jillian Hasner (Campaign Operations Manager for Meg Whitman)

  2. I think Cesar (formerly of Cesar’s Latin Palace) has run for San Francisco mayor about 20 times. This poster is a vast improvement over his old campaign truck

  3. His campaign truck – with neon sign – is parked on Miguel Street. Like David said, he’s run for mayor countless times.

  4. His website is here: http://cesarascarrunz.org/

    His twitter feed (https://twitter.com/#!/cesarascarrunz) has no followers and the contact images on the bottom of the page are part of a jpg. I literally spent 17 minutes trying to click his twitter link before I realized what was going on. I found some random link from his website on google images of a nearly 4mb pic of him. http://cesarascarrunz.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/cesar.jpg I took the important part and made a desktop background from it in case you are looking for a new desktop background in case anyone is interested: http://i.imgur.com/xB2c1.jpg

    Oh, and he calls himself “an experienced candidate,” probably not a good sign.

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