Summarize each candidate's central message in one sentence:

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Copy and paste the text below, then type in your interpretation of each one's core message.

Biden: ""
Clinton: ""
Dodd: ""
Edwards: ""
Giuliani: ""
Gravel: ""
Huckabee: ""
Hunter: ""
Keyes: ""
Kucinich: ""
McCain: ""
Obama: ""
Paul: ""
Richardson: ""
Romney: ""
Thompson: ""

[hobbit709]

1. "I'm the one" repeat ad finitum

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Kucinich

Respect the Constitution and use diplomacy not war to find global solutions to problems.

[Johonny]

3. here goes

Biden: "I'm not running!"
Clinton: "I'm for what your for"
Dodd: "Chris, Chris, Chris, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Chris, Chris, Chris..."
Edwards: "I was poor, your poor so you see how that's a connection"
Giuliani: "It be a shame if something happen to your mother"
Gravel: "I'm better than somebody else!"
Huckabee: "Jesus says you shouldn't have to pay income tax"
Hunter: "I'm not better than somebody else!"
Keyes: "I hate my gay daughter"
Kucinich: "I saw a UFO, what that's crazier than talking to Jesus?"
McCain: "I'm old, been around a long time, it's my turn damnit!"
Obama: "I know Oprah and John Edwards doesn't"
Paul: "I don't like blacks, gays, women, taxes or the war"
Richardson: "I've got experience but no personality"
Romney: "I'm the CEO president just like Bush!"
Thompson: "Zzzzz.... what, er, Zzzzzz...."

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4. LOL - thanks

although I think Richardson does have a sense of humor

[HamdenRice]

6. Giuliani: "It be a shame if something happen to your mother"

Priceless!

:rofl:

[Phillycat]

8. PERFECT!

:thumbsup:

[HamdenRice]

5. Just a few words

Obama: Change, hope, new people, new ideas
Edwards: Restore the middle and working classes
Clinton: It's inevitable, you have no choice

[cynatnite]

7. I took the ones out who aren't running

Clinton: Experience
Edwards: Middle class
Giuliani: Terra
Huckabee: Christian
Kucinich: Realistic
McCain: Iraq
Obama: Change
Paul: Iraq
Richardson: Better
Romney: Governor
Thompson: I really have no idea what his message is. :shrug:

[Phillycat]

9. Thompson: "naps are good"?

[treestar]

10. ...

Giuliani: "911, 911, 911"

[jakem]

11. too easy, except for Hunter. who is he again?!

Biden: "see ya!"
Clinton: "abandon hope!"
Dodd: "look at me! look at me!"
Edwards: "fight!"
Giuliani: "911"
Gravel: "grumble grumble"
Huckabee: "rock the vote for jeebus!"
Hunter: "..."
Keyes: "(crickets chirping)"
Kucinich: "embrace the elf!"
McCain: "i have crazy eyes!"
Obama: "hope"
Paul: "gold standard"
Richardson: "no, really. i would be a good president."
Romney: "i look sooo presidential"
Thompson: "wake me when im president"

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13. He's the guy who spent $63 million of our money on a plane that won't fly and the Navy doesn't want

See this page:

http://video.nbcsandiego.com/player/?id=202326

To watch reports about it, click on the links "Video: Committee To Decide Plane's Fate" and "Video: 10News/ABC News Investigation Of Defense Contractor"

[goodgd_yall]

12. What they are saying:

Biden: "I'm experienced."
Clinton: "I'm the experienced one."
Dodd: "I'm experienced."
Edwards: "F--- the corporations."
Giuliani: "I'm your daddy."
Gravel: "You're all pathetic."
Huckabee: "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."
Hunter: "'Kill the Mex'" (A quote from The Oxbow Incident)
Keyes: "sdjfsdjfsjfdkjd"
Kucinich: "I'm the real liberal."
McCain: "The surge is working."
Obama: "Audacity."
Paul: "We don't need no stinking government."
Richardson: "I'm the governor of New Mexico."
Romney: "Tell me what you want to hear and I'll tell it back to you."
Thompson: "*Snore*"

[goodgd_yall]

14. This is a fun post

Too bad not many DUers are participating. :-(

[rucky]

15. Change n/t

[antigop]

16. Guiliani

Pick a noun, followed by a verb, and then "9/11".

(thanks to Joe Biden for that)

[UTUSN]

17. I'm gonna change change, using change as a change agent, for the greater change of change!1

Heck, did'em ALL in one sentence!1

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21. Is that a change from your previous position?

[MethuenProgressive]

18. I'm not Clinton

Biden: "I'm not Clinton"
Clinton: "I'm not who the RW and MSM has conviced you I am."
Dodd: "I'm not Clinton"
Edwards: "I'm not Clinton"
Giuliani: "I'm not Clinton"
Gravel: "I'm not Clinton"
Huckabee: "I'm not Clinton"
Hunter: "I'm not Clinton"
Keyes: "I'm not Clinton"
Kucinich: "I'm not Clinton"
McCain: "I'm not Clinton"
Obama: "I'm not Clinton"
Paul: "I'm not Clinton"
Richardson: "I wish experince and qualifications mattered as much as six pack abs."
Romney: "I'm not Clinton"
Thompson: "I'm not Clinton"

[LiberalHeart]

19. Okay....

Biden: "That VP mansion looks pretty good."
Clinton: "I'm the candidate of change in the polls."
Dodd: "Edwards and I would make a great team."
Edwards: "Let everyone else duke it out while I go ahead and move my stuff into the White House."
Giuliani: "Hey, sweetie, do you fool around?"
Gravel: "At least I'm the president of YouTube views."
Huckabee: "The name's Huckabee, not Huckleberry -- but yes, I am a fictional character."
Hunter: "Folks got me confused with that other hunter -- Cheney -- so I'm outta here."
Keyes: "Running for President is my hobby."
Kucinich: "Give Peace a chance but expect some unrest when you toss your votes to Obama."
McCain: "I'm just here to mess with Romney's head."
Obama: "Dreams for sale -- stock up now before you wake up to reality."
Paul: "Republicans' heads will explode if I get the nomination."
Richardson: "I'd like to change my answer to the Supreme Court Justice question, please."
Romney: "My hair's nicer than John's."
Thompson: "No comment (because of the writer's strike)."

[Redbear]

20. My contribution

Clinton: Im just a girl in the world and that's all that you'll let me be.

Edwards: Fight the Power!

Giuliani: To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.

Huckabee: Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war.

Hunter: Im going off the rails on a crazy train

Keyes: I was drunk the day my momma got out of prison

Kucinich: You say you want a revolution?

McCain: Rocky Raccoon fell back to his room; only to find Gideon's Bible.

Obama: I am everything you want. I am everything you need. I see everything inside you that you wish you could be.

Paul: You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just may be a lunatic your looking for.

Richardson: When will I be loved?

Romney: Here in my car (with a dog on the roof) I feel safest of all

Thompson: Wake me up when September ends.

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22. That inspires me to start a new thread!