Instead of screaming at each other and calling each other murders, why can't we discuss where we can actually agree? What I like about Obama is that he doesn't just leave it with no common ground. There is common ground if you look for it and understand your opponent.

If you refuse to understand you will only gain victory through destruction. That is where we are now. Each side generally is out to destroy the other on this issue. Obama understands that it isn't necessary and that even on the most divisive issue of our time, we can find something. Others refuse to even look.

yeah, that's what annoys me most about the repubs in the u.s. and our conservatives; they refuse to look at the 'other' side, and have such a narrow view of things in general, I find. Narrow ideas are by definition exclusive to a few who want everything 'their way' or the highway. yech i say..not good.