FrumForum's Summer Contest

We'd like to open a contest to you, our brilliant readers. If you wanted to impress everyone while offending nobody, what would you say?

Let me follow the high-minded request to readers to help define our blog mission with a much lower piece of foolery.

My friends Eli Lake and Noah Pollak some weeks ago returned from a conference with a new game: the object was to say something utterly obvious with the grave portentous of a deep and original thought.

"When we invest in education, we're investing in the future."

"This McChrystal business is a Mess with a capital 'M.'"

"You can't shoot your way out of an insurgency."

"The Internet is changing the way we connect with one another."

"Presidential elections are fought between the 40 yard lines."

"One thing is for sure: American democracy is a work in progress."

Now we'd like to open the contest to you, our brilliant readers. If you were on the stage at Davos and wanted to impress everyone while offending nobody, what would you say?

We'll post the best entries next weekend.

Eli and Noah will join the FrumForum team on the jury.

First prize ought to be the presidency of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, but since that's not in our gift, we'll settle for awarding the 3 best entries a year's subscription to Foreign Affairs and a FrumForum coffee mug. Please email entries to editor@frumforum.com