Obama initiates Car Wars
Barack Obama wants to talk about the Issues That Matter.
Issues like John McCain’s inability to send e-mail.
And issues like…the McCain family’s cars:
Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign hit Republican John McCain today over his family’s ownership of foreign cars, saying it would air a TV ad in Michigan highlighting McCain’s statements on buying American.
But the ad, which accuses McCain of misleading Michigan voters by saying he’s bought American vehicles “literally all my life,” doesn’t say that of the 13 vehicles owned by the McCain family, only one is registered to McCain himself – a 2004 Cadillac CTS built in Lansing.
The 12 other vehicles include a 2005 Volkswagen convertible, a 2001 Honda sedan, a 2007 Ford half-ton pickup and three Gem neighborhood electric vehicles – essentially road-worthy golf carts built by a Chrysler subsidiary.
All part of Obama’s laughable “Buy American” posturing.
The Democrats will spread the word about this Issue That Matters with two events in Michigan today to “highlight the McCain’s family vehicles, as well as events in Missouri and Wisconsin.”
Just a reminder of what Obama was driving before he was hoisted by his enviro-sanctimonious petard. From May 2008:
There he goes again. Barack Obama is lambasting Detroit’s Big 3 automakers again for manufacturing SUVs. He attacked the car companies over the weekend for making the “mistake” of investing in SUVs and large trucks instead of producing more fuel-efficient vehicles. Obama also bragged about his Big 3- bashing speech a year ago that delivered “the kind of truth-telling we need from the next president.”
A truth-telling reminder of the gas-guzzling car Obama himself was driving before eco-hypocrisy caught up with him:
Chrysler 300C
Output: 340 hp, 390 lb-ft
EPA fuel economy, city/highway: 17/25 (17/24 AWD)His fancy wheels got less than the standard 27 mpg that he now whines is too low.
After his do-as-i-say-ism was exposed, he traded in his beast for a Ford Escape Hybrid.
But on the campaign trail, to this day, it’s still the bigger the better.
Obama’s eco-hypocrisy emission standard: High.
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nanner nanner boo boo!
It’s just four years after 2004, and suddenly Military experience doesn’t matter and now financial status does.
Democrats and their enablers in the media are such tools.
Oh, and doesn’t he use a limo to drop off his kids at school?
The Liberal Mantra: “Do as I say not as I do.” I didn’t like it when my father said it either.
Didn’t Kerry try this tactic in 2004?
Well, you can look at it this way. He and his wife have purchased 11 American cars — to one from Obama.
At least McCain’s helping out the American car makers by buying more cars, right?
McCain was pictured in a ‘58 Corvette convertible, with a CIGAR in his mouth!
OMFG!! What will this news mean for the polls?
And Obama is driven around by the secret service SUV’s as pictured above. I doubt that Obama’s Ford hybrid’s odometer has broken into the triple digits since he purchased it.
Like his senate seat, it’s hardly ever used.
Now all they need is Bill Murray singing the ‘theme’ song as his character Nick the Lounge Singer…
“Car Wars/nothin’ but Car Wars..”
All I can say is this: they can have the keys to my pick-em-up when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
I don’t really give rat’s backside what kind of car either candidate has or doesn’t have. As an American, I reserve the right to own whatever kind of car I want. That’s the kind of freedom I’m into. I’m weird like that.
Heh! Picking on Obama’s car hurts his feeling.
The truth is only one of the automobiles is registered to John McCain. All of the others are registered to his wife, Cindy, and some are connected to her through her father’s business which she inherited and her other interests.
End of “Car-Gate” story!
Them ain’t no twenties…
Why would ANYONE drive a Chrysler 300 C when they could have had a bright yellow Dodge Charger Daytona — essentially built on the same frame? (10 MPG or bust!)
My collie says:
One private jet creates more pollution then a fleet of vehicles, eh Obama?
Sadly, some of those Ford, GM, Chrysler workers will believe the ad….
They can’t see past their Union Mandate paycheck to see their Union is killing the golden goose.
Laughable indeed — if he were so “All-American,” why does he draw his biggest crowds in Europe?
That was awesome, wighttrasch. I tried to imagine Bill Murray singing that, and now it’s stuck in my mind. Grr.
Hey, speaking about idiot democrats who are obsessed with McCain cars, check this out.
Seven houses is nothing, McCain owns 13 cars – By Obama supporter Chris Shunk at Autoblog.
The commenters are tearing this moonbat a new one.
McCain created this phony issue by criticizing Obama as rich and out of touch. McCain ads showed Obama’s million dollar home. Well, McCain is far wealthier than Obama, his home costs far more (homes cost far more), and so on.
McCain is out of touch. He doesn’t know the price of gas because he never pumps his own. He doesn’t have to use a computer (don’t give the war disability line — if he can write, he can type) because his secretary takes dictation.
It’s fitting that the mud McCain threw at Obama is hitting McCain in the face. Do you have a problem with that?
lgm – was it my “nanner nanna boo boo” comment that got your attention?
Oh, look, The Idiot decided to show up and blame a Republican.
:YAAAAWWWWWNNNNNNNNN
Your point? Your an Idiot and can use a computer.
News flash!!!
An Idiot can use a computer. Obama can use a computer. Obama is an Idiot.
Film at 11:00
Keep trying, lgm. Maybe some day you’ll find a salient point.
Ol’ Hopenchange is your run-of-the-mill hypocritical “limousine liberal.”
You can take my fully loaded, leather interior, 17 MPG SUV from my cold dead hands!
Auto industry and other highly unionized workers can thank the greed at the top of their respective unions for the loss of many of those jobs …
The proof of this is simple to see … most of the job losses in many of these affected industries, whether through local closings or off shore job movement, were implemented to cut various labor and other costs in an effort to keep the companies afloat …
I am certain there will be those among you that will disagree with me on this, but, unfortunately, it’s verifiable …
I see you’ve taken the “get in their
cyberfaces” and are running with it. I ain’t afraid of no ghost.I haven’t seriously contemplated whether reincarnation is real, but there are some people who make a persuasive case that at least parrots have a chance of coming back as humans.
“Vote for Hopenchange — he can type!” — Coming soon to a bumper sticker near you…
lgm is just upset folks. He now realizes that he too could have been driving a 300C if he was selling crack instead of hauling port-a-potties around.
PS Do Cindy’s 3 golf carts really count as automobiles? How about their children’s and grand-children’s trikes and bikes? Wonder if they have any Go-Carts and wagons? Scooters? Match-box cars?
Obama’s campaign has scrapped the bottom of the barrel to “deflect attention away” from his and Biden’s sheer incompetence to be VP & POTUSA!
Has anyone asked Bill Ayers which models work best as car bombs?
Just curious.
I had a Luumina that was made in Canada. I now have a Camry that was made in Tennessee. So, when was I being unAmerican?
This kind of class envy crap works with dimwitted ne’er-do-wells who are motivated mostly by envy and resentment.
So among his 13 vehicles are an ‘05 VW and a 7 year old Honda?
Oh no… what will we do?
I should point out that the Honda was likely built in the USA…. Marysville, Ohio or maybe East Liberty, Ohio. Depending on which model it is.
Obam-idiots….
LOL. I would have to go with a Pacer – a real bomb.
My last attempt to buy American:
Saturn; built in Mexico
Honda; built in the USA
We bought the Honda.
Bill Clinton had dicktation too. What a great POTUS he turned out to be.
Laugh if you must. But that is the closest he comes to acting American!
Oh yeah.. accord to a report in February.. Honda employs 13,000 people in Ohio.
I have a VW…cold.hands. and all that jazz – I love it.
…according to…
argh…
Don’t tell Obama that or he’ll accuse the people of the Buckeye state of “clinging to their Honda’s” also.
Talking about cars??? I wish they would talk about this HORRIBLE BAILOUT, or maybe the TERRORIST ATTACK in Pakistan this past weekend, or the problem with ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION in this country… These are SERIOUS PROBLEMS for our NATION, not what kind, or how many cars one candidate or another has!!!
As I commented elsewhere, the McCains have 7 children so 13 cars for 9 people isn’t that unreasonable. My motorhead son has 3 cars himself and he is anything but rich.
I’m one of 5 siblings. Our house looked like a parking garage when we were teenagers.
Obama is practicing class warfare of a different sort – large families vs small families.
Don’t be silly. The maid uses it all the time.
Buy American??? Since when has BO cared about anything American? He was King of the world until Sarah reminded him that he was running for POTUS only. This is just a ploy to connect to those bitter people with religion and guns. Right now BO’s prefered vehicle is a private plane followed by a string of limos.
Ford Pinto.
I might be wrong but I remember reading that McCain was superstitious? I’m sure I read that, so he better go out and buy another car just to be safe.
Obama should change the slogan to “Buy American, Just Don’t Buy Too Much American”
I’m going out on a limb here, but I bet he only drives one at a time.
Brian72, please…the best time for an “F” to precede a “G” is when reciting the alphabet, but surely not in this context.
I find it facinating that lgm comes here to clean his gun, by always looking down the barrel first to see if it’s loaded.
Next up? McCain used to fly a fuel guzzling jet for pleasure during a time of war.
4Runner and he’s all mine. What? I’m reaching for my keys. Zoom, zoom, zoom.
Hey Obummer: here’s a newsflash- many Americans don’t buy American anymore. Why? Because they SUCK. Do you understand there’s even an alternative acronym for FORD:
Found On the Road Dead
The freaking labor unions sucked the auto companies dry and now that giant sucking sound you hear are the jobs leaving Michigan. Perhaps, if labor unions weren’t so greedy and actually had worked with the auto companies to get them ready for the future and make them more competitive and affordable there would be no repercussions.
My husband and I have a Nissan and Saturn. I actually encouraged my husband to get an American car but he said: Nah…. I’m really getting sick of the repair bills.
How many foreign suits does Barry wear/own?
Sorry for those in Michigan but they got just what they deserved. Unions kill productivity. How many union organizers lost their jobs when the plants closed? How many just moved to other shops?
How many workers learned their lesson?
My Ford F150 is sweet. I do not know, nor do I care where it was built. I know where I bought it.
When SNL was actually funny!
My husband got me a Cadillac Broughham a few years back. It has a 5.7 litre V-8. It is around 400hp. It doesn’t get good mileage, but what a vehicle!
It’s paid for. I don’t mind putting gas in it. I don’t understand why someone feels the need to tell me how to spend my money.
Funny.. good joke.
Fix or repair daily
I used to have an escort GT in high school/college. POS it was!
My Honda Odyssey was a great van, but I have a VW Jetta now.
Individual freedom is not the strong suit of Marxists.
emjem24 …
originally FORD meant Fix Or Repair Daily …
McCain has a long history with Corvettes – THE American car if I may say so. Obama has a history with Metro-vettes I believe…
Seriously. How many houses do the McCains have? Mabye rather than TRANSPORT the cars between houses, they’re saving money by having a car or two at each. And the golf carts? WTBLEEP are they doing on the list?
OK, McCain has a car actually built in Michigan, while Obama has a hybrid built in Kansas City but is in Michigan complaining that McCain doesn’t have an American car. Teleprompter on the Fritz again?
Unless we are talking NASCAR
First On Race Day
Sounds like the McCain family has been stimulating the economy, isn’t that a good thing?
Is lgm Geraldo?
Pintos and Fieras.
American Auto Industry:
Driven to Japan by the UAW, GreenWeenies and Friends in Washington.
The workers of the UAW had a great ride for four generations but it is endings–too bad- the dummies milked it dry.
Only people I’ve seen in the Chrysler 300c have been gangsta wannabe types. The car is the latest replacement for the Escalade.
Any proof of any of this? BTW, Cindy and one of the sons race cars. She took auto mechanics in high school and can fix cars. McCain used to drive Vettes and now has a car actually made in Michigan. Please up your game.
I understand that some of those cars are part of Cindy’s Drift Racing stable. A first lady with her own auto racing team — yeah that’s going to turn off a lot of blue collar voters. Here’s another longer video.
oops, lgm spews back into his usual perch as idiot of the day.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Image: lgm, the human suppository.
I thought FORD meant Found On Road Dead
Don’t tell it to JJ and the Chevey’s!
Excellent point.
Remember the 1992 election, which also involved “buy American” trade sentiment? There was a stink made about a company that bought earth-moving equipment from Kubota instead of Caterpillar, until it was pointed out that the Kubota products were made in the USA and the Caterpillar products were built overseas.
In a global economy, “Buy American” is an argument that often swallows its own tail — especially these days, when it seems that all we make in America is Americans – and we import a lot of them, too.
What Obama’s plan when he gets to North Carolina? Lighting a Marlboro?
Oh, good grief. Now lgm is a doctor!
In how many disciplines are you totally illiterate? I have nerve damage in my right hand. One of the oddest things is that I can type and mouse all day but if I pick up a pencil or pen my hand is completely cramped up after writing two or three lines of text.
Isn’t it just remotely possible that John McCain’s fingers, hands and arms are damaged in a different way than mine? Or is there only one kind of disability?
Please stop demonstrating your incredible breadth of ignorance. I am beginning to suspect you are algore….
Obama can type really fast.
McCain can win the war and protect our country from terrorists.
Ok lgm, I see why you’d pick Obama.
A 300C on the south side? You don’t say. Now I wonder who pushed the family to make that purchase? Perhaps the same person that twisted Barack’s elbow into buying their “look at what we got” home?
This is really stupid. I mean c’mon! I love American cars (mostly classic ones), but if I had the money that Barry O or the McCains have I probably would buy an Aston Martin DB9.
That is simply the most beautiful car I’ve ever seen, and it packs a mean 6.0 liter V-12.
Does that mean I’m not a real American or something? No. It means I love great cars. Period.
If I could afford the Aston, then I could afford a few cars and trucks, most of which would be American made.
When it comes to everyday utility type vehicles, I’m not much on the Japanese cars. Mostly a style thing.
However, I have some land to take care of that I inherited from my grandmother. My diesel powered 4-wheel drive mowing tractor with a 6ft. wide deck is not a John Deere, but a Kubota, made in Japan. I just happen to like it better than a similar Deere. Different hydrostatic drive pedal arrangement, more user friendly. Totally practical.
I still love America plenty.
Let’s get Obama on more substantive things, like taxes, or Marxist community organizing corruption, shall we please?
Thank me!
Hmmmm… according to Regulus, my Kubota tractor may have in fact been built here in the USA after all. It is a Japanese brand though. See this even more pointless of a conversation now!
Oh no! Does the First Dude Todd Palin race on Japanese snowmachines? Oh the horror! Call Winner&Associates, we need a viral video NOW!
Would Obama have a stiff enough wrist for the shifter – or would MichelleO have to drive?
Good one AlohaGuy!
By the way, has anyone noticed sometimes Michelle Obama looks like Ice Cube’s twin sister?
She got the foul scowl, IYKWIMAITYD.
I bet you all don’t want to know what we used to say PONTIAC stood for!!!:D
http://www.americanarmed.blogsot.com
Don’t go there with PONTIAC, dude! Don’t do it!
If it’s what I’m thinking, I completely agree. Don’t even go there.
Cindy McCain is far wealthier. John is a humble public servant and retired Navy pilot.
And Obama’s home DO cost less… because Obama got that wicked cool Deal from Rezko, his friend and felon.
Ahh…. you are confusing John McCain with Nancy Pelosi. A common error among liberals because they can’t accept that a Jackass like Pelosi is their Queen.
Hehe… now it sounds like you’re talking in your sleep… you’re not making any sense.
Allow me to help you.
Obama lies whenever he opens his mouth.
Just remember that and you’ll be fine.
If anyone cares, the photos and these stats are why I love the Aston Martin:
Engine- 6.0 liter aluminum V-12, 4 valves per cylinder, DOHC
Power- 470hp @6000rpm
0-60mph- 4.6 seconds
Torque- 443 lb-ft
Top Speed- 190mph
That is one sweet ride. All body panels are aluminum, also. Made in UK.
I won’t. But I will say that I said it in my police academy classroom one time and even the instructor cracked up. Of course back in the mid-eighties it was still a relatively new joke. Still one of my crowning moments during my academy days.
http://www.americanarmed.blogsot.com
The Aston can be had for around $140,000.
We’re just trying to warn you that a ban-hammer is hanging over your head with stuff like that here. Michelle won’t like that very much. You pulled back from the brink though, so that’s all good.
Dropping a lot of hints, aren’t you?
It’s not just MM that wouldn’t like it. I don’t either. Harmless as it might be, it’s still offensive.
Well, I got that special acronym from a couple of guys (including my husband) in the military. One of our military friends, who had just purchased a Ford Explorer, took it on a drive with his wife and family and the thing just shut down. Needless to say he was very peeved.
I’m sure everybody has their favorite acronym for Ford.
Based on your GREAT comeback and the fact I laughed, shows we are both way too old!!
Up Next for Team Obama:
Questioning Cindy McCain’s love of ozone-destroying Aqua Net hairspray.
That’s a lot of tuneups and repairs. And the crashes….ouch! Perhaps, Ford can learn from NASCAR’s best mechanics, right?
Thanks Flyoverman!