“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”Abraham Lincoln
Springfield, Illinois, 1858
"One of the things that simply spending time with 20-30 people does is it breaks down some of the caricatures that people may have...so you learn that you can disagree with people without being disagreeable."
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform
"We've wandered into a political region in which partisan conflict has become more intense than in almost any other period in American history. The transpartisan movement is beginning to foster so much communication across the partisan boundaries that the boundaries themselves are beginning to be much more porous."
Al Gore, Former Vice President
1) ISSUE: Health Care - Both Hillary and Obama have run on the platform of universal health care. The first Clinton administration failed in this endeavor. What is the likelihood of this becoming in a reality in our lifetime, and who among the 3 candidates has the ability to "get 'er done?"
COMMENT: I think the big issue is to modernize the system, and NEITHER the market NOR the government is doing much to 'get 'er done.'
