pauleckler:

Let's hope that good guys on both sides of the aisle can come together and resolve some of these issues rather than reducing them to shouting matches.

We can agree on that!

I get so SICK and TIRED of everything theses days being somehow interpreted by extremists on either "side" as simply the views of one political party or another. Let a Republican come up with an idea, and it's deemed "bad" by certain Democrats -- and vice versa.

If this country suffers from anything these days, it is the polarization that we see everywhere around us. If someone happens to come up with a view or thought that one side or another can somehow associate with a political party, BANG -- that person is a (fill in the blank).

How I wish that a third party candidate of some means and intelligence could arise. I know in my heart that millions of Americans yearn to see people elected who honestly want the best for our citizens -- all citizens, not just the very rich or the very poor, but all of us.

Vermonter