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Obama’s President’s Day Car Sale

The boys and girls at the Daily Show nailed this. If you were afraid that the Obama White House would not provide comedy gold, fear not:

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Obama, a used car salesman? Who would of thought it possible? Within the humor is a serious message–Obama, for better or worse, has now taken responsibility for the domestic automobile industry. Layoffs and plant closures will be on him. No place to hide.

  • diane

    http://www.poorrichardsalmanac.biz
    OUTRAGEOUS!
    chris matthews calls sarah palin a mail-order bride!

  • Docelder

    Obama is probably right that Iraq is probably the least of his problems now. He just practically took responsibility for putting bread on the table in the rust belt states. Talk about ambition.

  • truthorconsequences

    L Johnson, how do you think this will set with UAW heads?

  • I’m a Linda too

    But, instead, we get an ignorant Puppet as president. Where’s the news stories on THAT?!?

    Where is that Curious George Puppet when you need it. There is no better look a like and now you too can pull Weary Barry Obama’s STRINGS!

    No wonder Weary Barry has 200 Secret Service travling with him. He’s making enemies faster than any other presideNOT. Only his Wall Street Hedge Funders are happy with him, they and their money have been protected. Silling Michigan for thinking their promotion of the Empty One would benefit them. But then again, maybe it’s the Unions that will be no more when Barry recommends filing bankruptcy and all them and their pensions and health care are gone. hmmmmm

  • politicalidentitycrisis

    Well, I was never afraid that Obama wouldn’t be comedy gold. As a matter of fact, I sometimes questioned if that wasn’t why these dickheads like Stewart pushed him so hard. Do you have any idea how boring a Hillary Clinton or John McCain Presidency would have been? Yep, they’d have tried to fixed our Country’s problems as best they could, but would they make us laugh? That is the important thing, (yes, sarcasm intended, gotta spell it out for bots).

    Hell, if I’d have known all Barrakula really wanted was to own a car company, I’d have taken up a colletion and bought him one. Rather he tank one of those than this great nation of ours.

    Stewart is redeeming himself in my eyes, but I fear I won’t be watching him ever again. Why start, when soon I will need to give up Cable TV or worse, electricity to afford to buy food for my children?!

  • Patrick Henry

    Larry….where is that picture of Obamas new Car I sent you…Obamas new version of the “Volkswagon”…that he is going to Lovingly call the “AXEL ROD COUP..” for poor people…

  • Ani

    Stewart will NEVER redeem himself.

    He knew all this about Obama a year ago — the time to smack talk was back then, when we still could have gotten Hillary. All it would have taken was a bit of starch — and some balls — on his part.

    Stewart is whip smart — you will never convince me that any of this is coming as a surprise to him now.

  • JohnnyB

    Fired by a President?
    I think the shareholders should
    sue the President for this firing.
    Now a big severance package goes to
    the CEO. What gives? I think that
    all the banks CEO’s should be fired
    to show some consistency. How about
    firing a few Generals that still think
    more troops are the answer to the escalating
    “wars” in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

    Using Drones to kill people on the ground in
    Pakistan is called ASSASINATION, and also is
    against the Geneva Convention as the target(s)
    and collateral damage can not be positively
    identified. Hire some Peacekeepers.

  • I’m a Linda too

    LJ, yes, you are correct. Funny and if what Obama has been doing weren’t so tragic it all would be funny.

  • no kidding

    This whole thing about putting in a new CEO at GM is just a sham. GM will declare bankrupcy in 3 months.

  • no kidding

    Obama is giving Union Leaders big jobs on the GM Titanic. Maybe when GM folds he can blame them.

  • FLDemFem

    At least a mail order bride arrives knowing the job, which is more than you can say for Tweety’s sweetie, Obummer.

  • FLDemFem

    So when it comes time to negotiate with management for the workers, the union leaders will be talking to themselves??? Sounds like a major conflict of interest to me. Just sayin’…..to myself. Heh.

  • NoTrollZone

    I’d say Stewart is “wimp smart”.

  • beachnan

    LOL, great comment Fldem!!!!

  • barry bums a ciggie

    Doesn’t FIAT stand for Fix It Again Tony? No worries though, the gub’ment is behind the warranties.

  • QUEENIE

    ahhh this ought to warm a few cockles of the hearts of US Union workers!!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7428952.stm

    Ford to open new plant in Mexico

    US giant Ford is to invest $3bn (£1.5bn) in a new car plant in Mexico, the biggest investment in the country’s manufacturing sector.

    The move is a blow to American car workers who had hoped the factory would be built in the United States.

    Ford has lost more than $15bn (£7.5bn) over the past two years and says the new facility is crucial to its future.

    Mexican President Felipe Calderon hailed the announcement as a “turning point” for his country.

    The new factory, and other changes to Ford’s Mexican operations, are likely to create an estimated 4,500 jobs in Mexico, where car workers earn substantially less than their American counterparts.

    Mr Calderon made the announcement with Ford president Alan Mullaly at the presidential compound in Mexico City on Friday. [b]“We want Mexico to be an automotive country, one that is competitive and with the most advantages so that the worldwide automotive industry will establish itself here,” Mr Calderon said. [/b]Mr Mullaly said: “We are convinced the geographic location [b]as well as Mexico’s highly qualified labour force and economic stability[/b] make this decision the right one for our business.”

    …………………………………..

    ahhhh yeah..screw the Highly qualified American Labour force…and economic stability in Mexico???..who the heck do these people think they are kidding????????????

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    now look into the background of our Secretary of the Treasury..shall we??

    Biography

    [edit] Early life and education
    Geithner was born in Brooklyn, New York.[2] He spent most of his childhood living outside the United States, including present-day Zimbabwe, Zambia, India and Thailand, where he completed high school at International School Bangkok.[3] He then attended Dartmouth College, graduating with a B.A. in government and Asian studies in 1983.[4] He earned an M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1985.[4][5] He has studied Chinese[4] and Japanese.[6]

    Geithner’s paternal grandfather, Paul Herman Geithner (1902–1972), emigrated with his parents from the German town of Zeulenroda to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1908.[7] His father, Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York. During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation’s microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by S. Ann Dunham-Soetoro, President Barack Obama’s mother, and they met in person at least once.[8] Timothy Geithner’s mother, Deborah Moore Geithner, is a pianist and piano teacher in Larchmont, New York where his parents currently reside. Geithner’s maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company.

    Early career
    After completing his studies, Geithner worked for Kissinger and Associates in Washington, D.C., for three years and then joined the International Affairs division of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1988. He went on to serve as an attaché at the US Embassy in Tokyo. He was deputy assistant secretary for international monetary and financial policy (1995–1996), senior deputy assistant secretary for international affairs (1996-1997), assistant secretary for international affairs (1997–1998).[5]

    He was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (1998–2001) under Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.[5] Summers was his mentor,[10][11] but other sources call him a Rubin protégé.[11][12][13]

    In 2002 he left the Treasury to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in the International Economics department.14] He was director of the Policy Development and Review Department (2001-2003) at the International Monetary Fund.[5]

    In October 2003, he was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.[15] His salary in 2007 was $398,200.[16] Once at the New York Fed, he became Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee component. In 2006, he also became a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.[17]

  • I’m a Linda too

    lol

  • QUEENIE

    I saw an AA UAW union Man holding a meeting on Tv last night, and he said UAW members were out in the parking lot scraping the Obama stickers off their cars at the time he was convening the meeting!!!! seriously!!

  • QUEENIE

    my question is..would that be the warranties world wide that we the people will be paying for?????? Even for cars built out of the country with foreign labor???????

  • Ani

    I buy that.

  • Ani

    Tell us more…

  • I’m a Linda too

    That sounds right.

  • I’m a Linda too

    I wonder how well the new Double Barrel EManual Chryliat will sell?

  • KmX

    Fix it Again Timmy. lol

  • Docelder

    Well Mexican auto workers start at $1.50 an hour and are now as cheap as China. They cut them down from $1.95 to remain “competitive”.

  • Ashy1

    “Obama, a used car salesman?” Thank goodness he’s finally found a job for which he is well suited–this, plus his consulting work at the lemonade stand.

  • brodie

    Bloody funny!

  • http://noquarter foxyladi14

    LOL..THATS FUNNY…

  • brodie

    That’s priceless!

  • athena

    That’s because when the rage of the masees moves on from the dumbass malfience of the congress and Obama – WE who did not vote for this dipwad are going to start looking at the kool-aid drinkers who voted for this guy. They don’t want to be indetifiable – It’s kind of like that whole a “here’s your sign” We will be able to spot them easier. Seriously, who here when passing a car with AT LEAST ONE (cause there is usually 2 or more) Obama stickers on their cars don’t just shake your head in disgust and think ‘this your your fault’?

  • athena

    that should say ***indentifiable.

  • I’m a Linda too

    that should have been “Double Barrel EManual Chrysliat”

  • http://firefox AnnieCollier

    Exactly what I think of the Prius (nothing against Toyota) with the 0 sticker in the parking garage. I have to restrain myself as there are security cameras…

  • Diana

    Apparently over at Hot Air they think we took only the sexism directed at Hillary serious. Not all women. They have an article that basically says that this was less likely to get an ire out of the PUMAS. Ed must be doing some serious drugs if he thinks we only have ire for the way Hillary was treated. It’s not about party ED! We feel the same way about “ALL” women and this misogyny BS! In case he forgot many of us voted for McCain and Palin. We were just as angry over the way Palin and her daughter were treated as we were over the way Hillary and Chelsea were treated. Sorry I can’t holler over there. I’m not a member.

    And ditto it’s time for MSNBC to take this sexist crap coming from these men’s mouths and do something about it.

  • Diana

    John is hilarious, I just wish he’d woken up from the kool-aid long ago. It’s amazing to me how many will as long as (they think)it doesn’t affect them will have no problems, or in fact will go above and beyond to promote something/someone. Without any worry as to the consequences of their actions. The very minute it affects them or their family it’s wait a minute now. Now is too late. All because they refuse to step back and look at the bigger picture.

  • I’mFedUp

    Queenie, you made my day! Bless you.

  • mary

    Ani

    TINA FEY on Saturday Night Live was the only real source of hope offered to HIllary. And it worked!
    Tina was dynamite. And so was Hillary and Amy who appeared with her that week when Tina urged “Texas and Ohio….” to get out the vote for Hillary! And Hillary looked really happy n the show. Radiant is the word. No one worked as hard as that woman. And the assholObamarama had to steal the nomination from her.
    Thank you George Soros–hope the fillings of the gold teeth from the Jewish victims of the holocaudst you sold will make you happy in yhour billionaire’s cell.
    No wonder Oblowbla is spending billins in Afganistan to guard the proposed Soros oil pipelines from Caspian basin (Afgan)to Pakistan. Soros’ boy was elected to protect the billionaires club/oil pipelines….

  • mary

    Johny B

    OBAMA IS A WAR CRIMINAL. Flying over these 21,000 trooops and shooting innocent civilians is not what he promised. Can this ventriloquist Dummy for the pipeline intersts understand that spending billions of taxpayer money to fight another Financiers’ War is as criminal act as Dubya’s Fraudulent War in Iraq.
    \
    Obama = War Criminal-Puppet – Wanted in Afganistan
    Karzai = Corrupt Leader-Puppet
    G.Dubbya bush = other side of Obama Coin of Stupid

    NOW WE KNOW FOREST GUMP HAD A TWIN: OBAMA!

  • Concerned Citizen

    The Obamobile….

  • mary

    Annie Collier

    PleaSE! Don’t restrain yourself next time. One less 0 won’t make a difference. We should remove all the damn zeros…

  • mary

    Ashley

    You are soooo WRONG! How dare you say “Obama is well-suited…”???

    He’s just an Empty Suit.

    So you can only say “empty suited”

  • Ashy1

    Now, Mary, he did say that the warranties will be backed up by the government. Isn’t that great! We get to foot the bill for that, too. So, under those circumstances, wouldn’t you buy a car from him? I rest my case….On the other hand, that’s this week. He hasn’t said anything about next week. Hmmmm.

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