However that will not stop Conservatives everywhere from blaming Barak Obama, shold he be elected, for every aspect ofthe economy that is less than perfect, starting five minutes after he is sworn in. And the Mainstream media will echo those charges, unquestioned.

On the other hand, shoud John McCain be elected President, we can fully expect these articles to be published every eight to ten weeks, throughout his term in office, just to remind Americans that Republicans cannot be held accountable for anything, ever.

Because the media was so careful to seperate the fact that companies like Enron and Worldcom were running rampant in the 1990s while the Clinton admin was taking responsibility for the invention of the internet and all of the wealth (albeit largely temporary) it created. And, the MSM was very careful to point out that the recession that we probably weren't in at the beginning of the Bush administration started, if it existed at all, before Bush was even in office.

The fact is, Gross is wrong. Obama could have a great effect on the economic health of the country, but he won't. He'll choose, instead, to buy votes by inflating the currency even further. Of course, McCain will do the same. So, vote for whomever is better looking to you.

If Obama were to enact most of the policies he advocated in the primaries, it'd bring about for-real stagflation.

If history is any indicator, a "windfall profits tax" on oil companies will do more to hinder exploration efforts than anything the environmental lobby could dream about (just like it did in 1978), and cutting off free trade at a time when most economists figure foreign trade is the only thing keeping the U.S. out of recession would cripple any hopes for recovery, especially when the loss of the U.S. market throws much of the rest of the world into recession as well (and just maybe kicks in a downward spiral leading to a full-on global depression). At least he's had it explained to hime the inverse historcal relationship between dividend/cap gains tax rates and revenues generated by those taxes so he wouldn't be likely to make the necessary tax increases/spending cuts even more crippling to the government's ability to do anything at all.