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What do you like?

I heard the question, I think, in one of the presidential debates in '04 and I thought it was a fabulous question. And although I didn't get a chance to hear the segment tonight in which it appeared again, Bob Reha reminded me it existed...

What one thing about your opponent do you like?

Gets to be at this time of the campaign, you get pretty tired of hearing the same old answers (can we please retire the "I've even got campaign contributions from ex-boyfriends and my husband says it's not a growth industry," NOW?), and if you spend a lot of time reading partisan blogs -- I do -- you begin to wonder whether anybody has anything nice to say about anybody else.

It's a great question.

But then again, my favorite part of a football game is after it ends and the players get together with players on the other team.