Obama fills the role of clueless aristocrat by telling a man who explains that he can’t afford to fill his gas tank at current prices that he should instead buy a new car. If the press reported it, the retort would prove rather embarrassing — which may be why the Associated Press scrubbed it from their coverage of the event. . .
“a man who explains that he can’t afford to fill his gas tank at current prices that he should instead buy a new car…”
Is there a more perfect metaphor for Obama’s national economic policy than that?
But make sure you buy the car at Government Motors(GM)!
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
My wife’s cousin in Boston has a slightly used GM Potus she’ll be trading in when the lease is up, around November 2012. Bought it from some clean-looking, well spoken salesman from Chicago. Runs well but oddly never arrives anywhere close to your desired destination.
It does come with a heavily-used set of golf clubs in the trunk. And by a real duffer, too — the drivers are totally chewed up. How many divots can you carve off the tee? And no balls left in the bag — every one got shanked into a water hazard.
betcha we’ll never see ANY occupant of the white house doing this:
ca.news.yahoo.com/british-pm-wife-low-cost-flight-spain-20110407-092534-226.html
Obama is America’s Marie Antoinette.
…Meanwhile in Quebec Lalaland:
-Jean Charest proudly declared today that he’ll make sure 1 out of 4 cars by 2020 will be electric.
-Layton’s NDP are gaining in a poll the fastest in Quebec
-Liz May campaigning there today, promised a tax on carbon in the tune of several billions…To immense cheers from the crowd.
If only Barry was a Quebecer (Maybe he his…just a forgery away); he could run and win…Then they could separate and join Cuba for their winter holidays…As long as the electric airplane is invented by then of course…Liz May could become “Ti-Castor”, the beaver maskot sidekick of Bohomme Carnaval…The possibilities are endless.
Good thing he didn’t get sick. With Health care costs going nuts, ZeroBama would advise him to to buy a new body.
He is the “Car Salesman in Chief”, is he not?
I guess because he’s black, Democrats figured he must be from the projects.
Somewhat related
Suzuki and his wife are crying but he says it’s not too late:
http://tcktcktck.org/2011/04/partner-spotlight-dr-david-suzuki-co-founder-david-suzuki-foundation/
The President manages to ignore the fact that most US imported oil comes from Canada, and that Canada has oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia. Second, the President’s statement about oil reserves ignores all of those reserves which are artificially placed off limits by government action, such as ANWAR. Third, the President ignores the fact that the US has huge reserves of shale gas.
Oh-Zero’s not too worried about the price of gas since he’s not paying for it now and after he’s jobless in 2012 he’s planning on stopping back at the south side Chicago bus depot locker to pick up that length of garden hose he left there in 2008.
I love when the Obamites suggest a ‘tune up’…. cars haven’t required tune ups for 25 years. That’s how out of it those fools are.
But … invest in a tire guage and if you can find anyplace in town that still has an air compressor you can use … well … hey get a bus pass, that’s what they want you to do anyway.
That way you can be more easily mugged by the poor and thereby spread the wealth around a little.
potato @ 2:45, you beat me to it.
Charest is just as big a dip stick as Obama.
I think the President has forgotten that the man does not have other people’s money to spend on that new car.
Maybe Barry just meant if you can’t afford the gas, steal a car that can. Wealth transference.
See That makes better sense.
Canada just loves I and I’s o’Harvard buddy.
I and o’s epitaph:
“Back From Socialism”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/files/2011/04/napoleon_retreat_moscow.jpg
H/T:
“The Attack of the Cash Register”
“If prices start rising across the board the winter of 2011 could very well be the equivalent of Napoleon’s terrible winter of 1812, when the Grand Armee froze on its overextended advance. In President Obama’s case — with his simultaneous attempts at socialized medicine, cap and trade, and Mideast foreign policy — we may have seen the high-water market of his left-wing ideology. That may still be popular among the intellectuals, but it has been in practice disastrous for the poor. It has been especially catastrophic for blacks and Hispanics.
Just as Napoleon found he could not feed the Grand Armee in burned-out, desolate Moscow, will Barack Obama discover that he can’t sustain Hope and Change on itself? “We are the people we’ve been waiting for!” Yes. But you need the people you haven’t been waiting for to pay the bill.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/04/07/the-attack-of-the-cash-register/2/
“a man who explains that he can’t afford to fill his gas tank at current prices that he should instead buy a new car…”
This from someone whose preferred transportation is a 747 and one for his dog….. oh and one for the wife and kids…… don’t forget the ‘Beast’….
ten suburbans for golf outings and basketball pickup games…. the helicopter
“We are the people we’ve been waiting for!” Yes. But you need the people you haven’t been waiting for to pay the bill.”
by maz2 at April 7, 2011 7:20 PM
Very nicely said maz.
potato:
Actually, it’s Fed chair Ben Bernanke who deserves to be called “Marie”.
Last week, he told a crowd that there wasn’t any inflation overall; “yes”, he said (approx) “Some prices are going up, but others are going down. Look at the iPad”.
To which an ordinary citizen piped up “I can’t eat an iPad”.