he is of a pda -- he was a very interesting man. he said how about these articles? said i would take what i could get. i like the articles. they are good. >> we like to make connections here. go back to claremount institute. what is that and who finds it? rex is a think tank in southern california. it was started by a bunch of graduate students. it still goes. we had the idea, we were studying at an exciting time in our lives. we were studying it was very great teachers. -- we were studying with very great teachers. we got into the american revolution through lincoln. he actually wrote a very good book. the implication in the book is that lincoln saved and corrected things in the american revolution. later, working backwards from lincoln, he came to see me. lincoln was right in what he said. jefferson -- an abstract truth to all men in all times to be a stumbling block. it is a paraphrase of what lincoln said. we thought, read this stuff. the united states of america had a beautiful beginning, and is being forgotten. so we had the idea that we would start a think ta

eliminate errors in hospital because right now nurses cannot read handwriting, but if it comes outonto a pda, they're more likely to be accurate. reducing paperwork, everyone agrees there is no reason why should have to fill out five, six, eight forms every time you see a doctor. everyone knows that. [applause] huge amounts of wasted money there. electronic billing and billing that you can understand. everyone understands that is something that needs to be done. there are things that can be done the republican, democrat, liberal cannot -- liberal, conservative everyone can agree. how can we deal with the 20 percent of the stuff where people disagree? the whole issue with the public plan is a good example. a number of my republican friends have said we cannot support anything with a public auction. it is not clear that it is based on any evidence as much as it is their thinking, their fear that somehow would have a public plan that government will take over the entire health-care system. i am trying to be fair in presenting what their basic concern is. that is going to be a significant debate

president to actually stir and mobilize the altar as a witch we have seen all in any church bakes a or any pda. it's out there in extraordinarily tough, impassioned sense of what it means to be part of an american community. so was an extraordinarily bad that obama took. he won the bet i think to me appealingly because he was prepared to embrace the power of language. part of the atwater rove assumption which went along with assuming that americans were just turned off by politics. and it turned out that there were 17 million people watched the first debate. but they were really to listen to different kind of language. obama came at them with a kind of extraordinary movement. on the one hand, the language of our grandchildren, the language, the grammar of the web. which circumnavigated around the old tried-and-true campaign machinery of span. and on the other hand, a brand-new contemporary street mobilizing the kids and the students and mobilizing $10 at the time was a staggering amount of money to the campaign. on the other hand of course what obama brought back into american public life was

right now, nurses cannot read the doctor's handwriting, but if it comes out on a pda they are reading, they are more likely to be accurate. everybody agrees there is no reason you should have to fill out five or six or eight forms every time you go to see a doctor. huge amounts of wasted money. electronic billing and billing that you can understand. everybody knows that is something that needs to be done. there are things that can be done that republican, democrat, liberal, conservative, we all know we need to have. the challenge will revolve around how we deal with the 20% of the stuff for people disagree. this whole issue of the public plan is a a good example. a number of my republican friends have said we cannot support anything with a public auction. it is not clear -- a public auction. it is not clear that is based on evidence as much as they are thinking, their fear that somehow once you have a public plan, that government will take over the entire health-care system. i am trying to be fair in presenting what their basic concern is. that is going to be a significant debate. wha