Sep 20, 2007

Modern Madlibs
Audience participation: what would not work in the below?

In Goldsmith's view, the Bush administration went about answering __noun__ questions in the wrong way. Instead of reaching out to __noun__ and __noun__ for support, which would have strengthened its __adjective__ hand, the administration asserted what Goldsmith considers an unnecessarily broad, "go-it-alone" view of __noun__ . As Goldsmith sees it, this strategy has backfired. "They embraced this vision," he says, "because they wanted to leave __noun__ stronger than when they assumed office, but the approach they took achieved exactly the opposite effect. The central irony is that people whose explicit goal was to expand __noun__ have diminished it."