Opinion By: Kenny Clarke Design: Ashley McGarry
We'd love to have written a highly enlightened political piece on the 2012 election and the promising (or not so promising) term of our newly elect. We could have analyzed the pros and cons of having our chosen president for the next four years, broken down the goals of the new administration and continued arguing about our poor fiscal policy or shook our fingers at the ne'er-do-wells who didn't even take the time to vote. Unfortunately, the logistics of making a magazine didn't allow it. So instead we realized that you probably had heard enough about politics from someone else throughout this election race and decided you might have some opinions of your own to express with a political mad-lib. And to make a statement, the only thing not debated in politics is their controversial nature so, instead of telling you what you should think about some highly debated topic or another, we have a few key rules of thumb to keep in mind for when politics take over.
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ADJECTIVE Now that the ______________ presidential election is over with, we PRESENT VERB with our_____________ ADJECTIVE can finally start _______________ lives. Mitt NOUN(S) Romney and Barack Obama fought like ___________________ and it’s ADJECTIVE/ NOUN safe to say the winner is ______________________. This was an imporADJECTIVE tant election because the __________________ people of America will PAST VERB by the outcome. The campaign strategies of the be _____________ ADJECTIVE two parties sure were ___________________. They showed us how ADJECTIVE ________________ the candidates can be. The debates were VERB ADJECTIVE ________________ to watch too. Mitt and Barack _____________ a
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ADJECTIVE lot. The first debate was _______________. Jim Lehrer, the moderator, PAST VERB ADJECTIVE was pretty _______________. He ______________ and PAST VERB ADJECTIVE _______________ like he was _________________. The Vice PresidenADJECTIVE tial Debate was ________________. Everyone loved to watch PERSON __________________ make a fool out of himself. Don’t they know that ADJECTIVE the VP debates are ___________________? Paul Ryan is a(n) NOUN NOUN _____________ and Joe Biden is a(n) __________. I would’ve liked to PERSON PRONOUN see ________________ run for president. ________________ would ADJECTIVE ADJECTIVE have given _______________ Romney and _________________ Obama a run for their money. Regardless, whoever wins is definitely (a) ADJECTIVE/ NOUN It must be __________________ ADJECTIVE ________________. to say “I’m the NOUN/ TITLE NOUN/ COUNTRY ______________ of the _________________.” gandbmagazine.com