I agree. There are major challenges with the economy but because taxes have been lowered, we are reaping the benefits of that no matter what the lefties say. It's so unbelievable how much news organizations like CNN try to talk about doom and gloom when they never said a peep during the last couple Clinton years. You will see if Obama is president, they will talk about bunnies and flowers and cooking recipies if the economy goes south under his leadership. If we are in such a recession, why do I see major three story malls still going up, lines for the I Phone and for Batman if we are truly in a recession. The doom and gloomers disappear when things turn out ok. As bad as Bush is, many of his economic policies have worked and he has governed over a very good economy. Energy HAS to be dealt with and now that we have this window, we should take it. The left has to show that we are at the end of times to get Obama in office. We have so many fundamental problems like immigration, black obsessed culture that leads to crime and stupidity, poor education due to disruptive and truant blacks and hispanics and the white people who love them and copy them. If we became energy independent and rejected ghetto/gangster culture and took on and destroyed the gangs and criminal practices of the third world immigrants, America would be unstoppable.