Villages Kahuna I have to say that you are an optimist. Despite a pledge for transparceny Obama strong armed his Democratic majority behind closed doors to pass a bill that has been actively litigated found to be unconstitutional, along with better than half the population against it because they know it is cost prohbited, not to mention the medical communities concerns. We are not out of Iraq yet and I venture a guess that our policy will replicate our position in North Korea. There are better than 9.3% of the population whom might disagree that the economy is humming along. The corporate world is sitting on millions and millions of dollars fearful to invest. The auto industry bailout ignored the rights of stockholder snad bondholders and rewared the UAW whom was given a % of the corporation and demanded one year later for return of concessions they made during the bail out. The EPA is attempting to control an element that is contained in every can or bottle of soda, Obama, et al won't allow further exploration of oil or natural gas that would permanently eliminate our dependency on imports from countries that in actuality hate us. A policy by tbe way that is going to create high level inflation again which will have a direct affect on retirees like you and me. Finally we have a debt larger than all previous adminsitrations combined. We need to eliminate the Departments of Energy, Education, IRS, EPA and reorganize the SEC, FCC. I do agree with you on never voting for an incumbent and first on my list is Obama .