Amazing that Democrats are simply missing such a good opportunity. McCain, responding to Democrats' charge that he's running for a Bush third term, is countering with a charge that Obama is running for Jimmy Carter's second term. Democrats seem to have forgotten that Jimmy Carter crusaded for developing alternative fuel sources. The Republicans ridiculed him and succeeded in derailing all efforts he'd made in that direction. When Reagan took office, he killed every initiative made my Carter to do that. There are obviously places you could find Reagan attacking him on that basis for a damning indictment of the present Republican attempt to distract people from the obvious. The Republicans are defending their latest obstruction of a profiteering tax on oil companies, and saying that it's a "gimmick". They claim all we need to do is destroy the ecology of the planet by drilling in the all our wildlife preserves. The truth is, we'd already have alternative fuel sources if Jimmy Carter's initiatives had been allowed to continue.