Imagine you only have 1 sentence with which to convince an independent to vote for your candidate. Don’t waste your sentence stating why not to vote for the candidate that you dislike, use it to sell your candidate as best as possible.
This is stupid. The issues facing this country are incredibly complex. If you’re the kind of person who can’t deal with an argument more than one sentence long, you probably shouldn’t vote at all.
I could work on a 600 word run-on sentence, with lots of commas and conjunctions. 
Limiting it to a sentence is silly. What are your issues?
The reason that I limited it to a sentence is that I want to know what everyone thinks is the best thing about their candidate. What do you think is your candidate’s key attribute that makes them the right person for the job?
I don’t want to hear the negative reasons for the other side, because that always resorts into a mudslinging mess.
But I will say that the more important piece to me is not the brevity of the answer, but the reasons why you think your candidate is great. So that being said - scratch the one sentence rule, but really, I don’t want a 3 page response.
Obama is the best choice for President this year has he has the best handle on cleaning up the environment and fighting to reduce AGW while creating jobs from the process and he will rebuild are relations with the world.
I don’t like either VP, but Biden is on Obama’s ticket.
Expanded version: Obama will get us out of Iraq sooner and bring more troops to Afghanistan to finsih up that sad job.
He will restore our positive relations with Europe and is better suited to diplomatic activities than other candidates.
He has a reasonable plan to get health care for everyone, not a great plan, but slightly better than others I have seen.
He has been talking about helping returning vets with health care and educational benefits for his entire very long campaign.
He is a great speaker and after Bush, this is most welcomed.
Thank you for your response. And many kudos for your ability to be concise.
(edited because I thought “great kudos” sounded off)
1.He’s not a republican
2.He’s not a republican
Barack Obama will replace aging moderate & liberal members of the Supreme Court with qualified justices whose opinions and philosophy will be similarly liberal-to-moderate, as opposed to (for example) having an activist conservative agenda in the Antonin Scalia mode.
Joe Biden, who was my favorite Dem protocandidate in 1988, holds and has always held a range of admirable political positions, and would make a decent Prez if necessary.
I’d ask you why, but you’ve already used up your one sentence.
I did this back in January for all the candidates I was at all considering. This is what put me in Obama’s camp over Hillary. Energy & Environment and the Economy. Do yourself a favor and read the rest of it. Then do the same for McCain and make a fully informed decision. By the way, something I will praise McCain for, he had his website up and running with real info before any of the other major candidates.
John McCain has a proven record of trying to do the right thing in Washington, from fighting corruptions, putting an end to earmarks, speaking against his own party when he thinks they’re wrong and reaching across the aisle—not to mention that he understands that Islamic terrorists want to kill us and that we have to stop them before they do.
Sarah Palin embodies our founding father’s idea of a regular citizen rising to serve her community, her state, and her nation, and she has done what I wish more public servants would do: put an end to corruption. I see her much in the form of Teddy Roosevelt, who as NYC Police Commissioner walked the streets at night rounding up ruffians and neer-do-wells. He, too, was a governor who was not held to be up to the job of VP, but when McKinley was shot and he took the helm, he performed admirably.
(Okay, so that one isn’t just one sentence. Sue me.)
That’s seven sentences, including your first. Also, there are links, which I’m assuming are banned under the game’s rules.
If you had some commas and ands there you might have won, though they would have been ugly sentences.
I already gave my answer and expanded answer to the op. I was specifically addressing your post instead.
I was serious, I compared McCain, Rudy, Romney, Hillary, Obama, Paul and Edwards in January. I knew I would never vote for Paul or Edwards, but I wanted the extremes. (Oh, I also checked that leprechaun guy, what was his name again ;))
I reviewed all of them and I knew I was leaning towards a democrat to get the Republicans out of power for a while. I like and admire both Rudy and John McCain. I predicted that they were the only 2 that stood a chance against the Dems this time around. That predication goes back to 2005. Obama’s issues convinced me he was the best choice and I left the Republican party right after voting for McCain in the NJ Primary*. I am now an independent for the first time in my life.
Jim
::Ack:: ::Splutter::
Man, once in awhile a perfect target presents itself in GD begging to be harpooned…and of course it has to be in a thread in which it would constitute a hijack. Try that in a debate thread!
Oh my…
Must…not…flame…
1)The three biggest problems facing our nation - global warming, energy independence, and Islamic terrorism - can only be solved by inspiring
people to work together.
He’s probably going to die pretty soon, giving serious contenders a better chance in 2012 instead of just putting up the incumbent.
She hunts, and everyone knows chicks with guns are hot.
Again, give me some of your issues. I’ll try to stick to a sentence or two, but I need to know what’s important to you.
LOUNE, I think you missed one point. Thorium Indium Potassium would like to know what issue is most important to you in picking your candidate.