President bush in an American made pickup truck.
NY Post columnist Deborah Orin reported Saturday, "KERRY GETS AUDI-TED," that Kerry reluctantly admitted on Earth Day that his family owns a gas-guzzling Chevrolet Suburban SUV but blamed it on his wife, saying: "The family has it. I don't have it."
This came one day after John Kerry stressed the importance of buying American cars to keep American jobs, when records show that his wife owns a pricey imported German Audi.
The green 2001 Audi Quattro is registered to Teresa Heinz Kerry at their townhouse in Boston's posh Beacon Hill, according to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. Her registration is good through February 2005, Orin wrote.
On Earth Day, Kerry asserted that it's important for his family to buy American and vowed to protect American autoworkers' jobs. Next week, he's launching a "jobs tour" that will take him through the industrial heartland, home to many autoworkers, the Post reported.
It was also reported that Kerry left out the pricey Audi import two months ago when he detailed the cars that his family owns to the Michigan paper, Detroit News.
Talking to the Detroit paper, Kerry said: "We have some SUVs. We have a Jeep. We have a couple of Chrysler minivans. We have a PT Cruiser up in Boston. I have an old Dodge 600 that I keep in the Senate . . . We also have a Chevy, a big Suburban," the Post reported.
Kerry's hometown paper, Saturday's Boston Herald editorial put it this way. At last count, there were eight "family" cars and SUVs, including:
the 1995 Suburban (15 mpg highway, 12 mpg city), a 1993 Land Rover Defender (12 mpg highway, 10 mpg city), a 1989 Jeep Cherokee (20 mpg highway, 16 mpg city), a 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee (20 mpg highway, 15 mpg city), a 2001 Audi Allroad (21 mpg highway, 15 mpg city), a 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser (25 mpg highway, 20 mpg city), a 1985 Dodge 600 Convertible (26 mpg highway, 23 mpg city), and a 2002 Chrysler 300M (26 mpg highway, 18 mpg city).
Kerry, however, only owns up to the latter two.
DCX (Daimler Chrysler Corp) is owned by Daimler Benz (Mercedes) which also owns Freightliner (mfg of big trucks and bus/rv chassis).
Expert observers say Kerry seems to own a disproportionate mumber of DCX products of which Jeep is also part.
Not only is the foreign-made Audi Quattro made in Wolfsburg, Germany, it's the factory of the Hitler era ---Volkeswagon.
Kerry's Land Rover is made in the UK.
Teresa's private jet---Gulfstream GV--- that is made available to John Kerry, is a $50 million dollar aircraft that can carry and burn over 3 tons of fuel and gets maybe 5 centimeters per gallon.
There's also a 45 foot custom Hinkley yacht; 1 Harley (until recently an Italian made Ducati); and 5-6 large estates throughout the country that must be energy effecient (snicker).
Buying an imported car can be politically disastrous for a presidential candidate in swing industrial states like Michigan - where buying American is a big deal - particularly when candidates like Kerry are vowing to protect American jobs.
President bush in an American made pickup truck.
Isn't that normally reserved for republican hit pieces only?
Expert observers say Kerry seems to own a disproportionate mumber of DCX products of which Jeep is also part.Amateur observers say Kerry seems to say a disproportionate number of stupid things.
"It's not mine...it's Don Clinteone's."
"Expert observers?"
Expert observers. . .wondering what separates the 'expert' observer. . .from say the casual observer? . . .credentials; experience(?); a diploma from the School of 'Observing'?
This sentence seems like it could be a little flag - though maybe not; but then . . .a 'disproportionate number of DCX products'? (and the very mention of the forbidden name Hitler) Maybe this written in such a way as to just to add some weight; or. . .
Maybe HEINZ/kerry have been invested in Daimler-Benz - before it joined Chrysler; of course. . .but no real problem there (though why not now, automobiles mfg. made-in-Michigan exclusively).
And of course, evil dictators-terrorist's, around the world like to have good cars and Saddam had Mercedes shipped regularly into Iraq. Beyond that, there were the additional 'sales' that were mentioned in the oil-for-food UN scandal.
I don't know - might just be some innocent tie-in somewhere. . .We do know, of course that Saddam loved his Benzes; every one of them.
Just wonder if there is a quircky/innocent, but less than attractive, German connection somewhere.
OR. . .perhaps I just need another cup of coffee. . .
I don't understand this remark. How many people are in the current Kerry family? One... two. If it's not his, it must be... Teresa's. Or are there other family members I'm not aware of? It's not like they have several kids and he forgot one of them had an SUV.