After having spent a leisurely week of vacation in Hawaii, Obama looked reinvigorated and was back on the campaign trail today with the hopes of defeating his GOP rival: the economy.

Obama held a town hall meeting, which was his first session with the voters since returning to the mainland on Friday night, where he made use of every opportunity to criticize McCain on his tax policy, health care and energy, hitting the Republican presidential nominee for running negative ads and repeatedly saying that he had not been truthful about issues like dealing with high fuel costs and his support for alternative energy.

“John McCain and I fundamentally disagree on how we are gonna move this country forward. He ran a negative ad -- which is most of the ads he runs -- he ran a negative ad that claimed all my economic plan was higher taxes and that it would lead to economic disaster,” Obama said, before he went on to explain the audience how his tax policy would benefit the middle class more than McCain’s. “I’ve got news for John McCain: My plan’s not gonna bring about economic disaster. We already have economic disaster from John McCain’s president George W. Bush, and we can’t afford another four years or eight years of George W. Bush policies and that’s why we’re gonna beat John McCain in this election to put America on a new path.”