As the loggerhead battle of partisan squabbling continues unabated in Washington, D.C., it might behoove our national leaders to look to Georgia for an example of how leaders can come together to solve problems. Georgia’s governor and Atlanta’s mayor would seem, on the surface, to be the oddest of political couples. One a seasoned, white, conservative North Georgian with years of experience as a congressman and prosecutor; the other an African-American Democrat born in New Jersey and educated in the more liberal environment of the Northeast academic and legal world.