In
The West Wing, the president's adviseres fret about '10 word answers' that manage to sum up a candidates position succinctly in a neat little sound-bite for the morning's papers. I noticed that Barak Obama, when asked at a
black media members convention about his position with regard to reparations, used a beautifully crafted exaple of the species:
“The best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed.”*
Undoubtedly pre-packaged and re-heated, but I think it works.
*If anyone mentions that it's actually 20 words, I'm going to thump them...
you've been warned!
