300 words are great to start a good discussion. Those 300 words don't have to be from the top of the article, they can be 300 words you found interesting from the article.
Of course excepting all the uhs, buts, and ands from an 0bama speech won't give you 300 words.
If O gave a 10,000 word speach and you took out all the uhs, buts, ands, I, ME Myselfs from it fyou would have about ten words.