lol Gwyn, the older i'm getting baya the more my views reflects as that of a Republican. However, i could be swayed back to being a Democrat depending on who is at office. Right now, we have Arnold Schwarzenegger in office but he is not a favorite among us government workers so for me, dili tanan nga issues sa Republicans in favor ko there are some that also clashes with my belief system and same thing when i was a Democrat there were questionable issues for me. There will be other ways to bridge the economic downturn it might be slow but steady. For every action there is a reaction and that is what we are seeing now - terrorism, 911, unemployment rate, everything taken into account not to mention the oil situation. But we are not 100% dependent on oil from foreign shores. We have our own reserves coming from the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska and we only take in about 20% of that coming from the mid-east. So all these is just temporary. I favored his handling of the Iraq war. We need to protect our own homeland. Terrorism was the root cause of of how it all got started. We dont want another 911 happening here. No President has ever been beset with so much problems other than Bush especially happening during his first term in office and I believe under the most trying of times, he handled it well.