How rough can the debate over health policy get?

The debate got personal against me, and that hurt.

While the peace camp may have won, a true debate on peace never really got going in the campaign.

But the running debate over how the nation got there nags at this image.

Yet when the debate gets out of control, as it has in recent weeks, it burns both sides.

"The debate never got beyond whether this piece of work merited critical preservation."

Within the Government, a top-secret debate got under way.

At this point, the debate gets both nuanced and nasty.

Still, the debate, with campaign officials serving as stand-ins for their candidates, did get animated at times.

You can be sure of this much: The debate will get louder before it gets better.