We should probably all remember that a Presidential election is coming up next year, and at least one side has a lot to gain by wringing their hands and talking down the economy.

Remember the "we have to burn down this village to save it"? We haven't learned a lot since then. I expect we will be seeing lots and lots of Chicken Little's who will be telling us the sky is falling (and of course, it's all BHO's fault), so get used to it. We're about to head into Silly Season, regardless of any REAL difficulties with the economy, so fasten your seatbelts, because it's going to be a bumpy ride.

The Republicans seem perfectly prepared to run the country back into the ditch.......anything, to regain power. And if we forget who drove it into the ditch in the first place, then more fools us. Hint......it wasn't President Obama.

Does this mean that our country doesn't face a lot of serious problems? Of course not. But.......I realize that President Obama is a superman, but he WAS handed a country on the brink of a total financial collapse, a huge deficit and two wars (at least one of which was unnecessary) sucking hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars, not to mention a banking/financial system that had to be shored up, like it or not. Now, he's managed to stabilize those situations, get the economy moving again, however sluggishly, AND get Osama bin Laden, but............ ;-)