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Obama Orders Chevrolet and Dodge Out Of NASCAR - Car News
Car and Driver ^ | April 2009 | JARED GALL

Posted on 03/31/2009 8:41:17 PM PDT by Jim Hill

With their racing budgets deemed “unnecessary expenditures,” GM and Chrysler are ordered to cease racing operations at the end of the season.

(Excerpt) Read more at caranddriver.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Humor; Sports
KEYWORDS: 040109; aprilfools; aprilfoolsday; bailout; bho44; bhoeconomy; economy; nascar; obama; socialism
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To: Jim Hill

So far Car and Driver and another article from Autospies.com:

http://www.autospies.com/news/The-Socialist-Experiement-Continues-Obama-Orders-Chevrolet-and-Dodge-Out-Of-NASCAR-42514/


41 posted on 03/31/2009 8:56:27 PM PDT by sox_the_cat
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To: ilgipper

He might as well go ahead and ban all pro sports, NFL,MLB, NBA and everything else because almost all the states accepted the handouts! I hope he enjoys his 4 years!!


42 posted on 03/31/2009 8:56:51 PM PDT by mrsalty
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To: wolf24
Reality is putting the Onion out of business...

So very true! I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I have to go to work tomorrow while I still have a job, so perhaps I should just go to sleep instead...

43 posted on 03/31/2009 8:57:10 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Jim Hill

Sump’n funny going on. The link goes to article 7 of 210. If you push “next” you go to article 7 of 209. Hit “previous” and the NASCAR article is not there anymore. And there are still only 209 articles. Hmmm...


44 posted on 03/31/2009 8:57:13 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Jim Hill

I read a few of the comments after the artice and people were slamming NASCAR fans, saying things along the line of “It’s about time they outlawed this red-neck sport”.

Whether or not this story is true or not, it is scary that some folks would be HAPPY that the Government would dictate (or even care) what some of the American people consider sport.

NASCAR fan or not, we can not let this (or any) Government have this much control.

Sadder yet, some fools think that the Government should have that exact authority.

If Americans really feel this way about NASCAR (or any sport), they have the God-given right to vote with their very own pocket books (as long as the so-called U.S. Government hasn’t raided the pocket book too far).


45 posted on 03/31/2009 8:58:19 PM PDT by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: Jim Hill

This moron knows nothing about marketing, which makes sense because he knows nothing about business. His background is in socialism/marxism and goverment strong arming.


46 posted on 03/31/2009 8:58:30 PM PDT by piytar (Obama = Mugabe wannabe. Wake up America.)
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To: Jim Hill

I’ve seen it reported elsewhere, but I still suspect April 1 joke.


47 posted on 03/31/2009 8:58:58 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: BigSkyVic

Well, I’m on Eastern time, so it’s ALMOST April 1...but not quite. ;)

‘Night!


48 posted on 03/31/2009 8:59:11 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Jim Hill

Obama can’t kill NASCAR. . . he’s cruisin for a bruisin.
ADVERTISING is what NASCAR is all about. Obambi must think those are real Chevy’s out there off the showroom floor.
GM May not survive anyway, but NASCAR will. When Winston cup got canned, it was a minor ripple in NASCAR......and 2 years later all was normal again.


49 posted on 03/31/2009 8:59:11 PM PDT by 4Speed
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To: Red Steel

Yeah based on this text it is a joke. GM and Chrysler cars will continue to “exist” in races as long as the teams find sponsors. My guess is they just buy a block, add the other parts, pistons, cranks, etc and most of the stuff is not factory anyway.


50 posted on 03/31/2009 8:59:41 PM PDT by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: Carling

Yup, out here in deep-blue northern California the largest single sporting event is the Dodge/Save-Mart 350. The Bay Area isn’t exactly NASCAR country, but this move would upset a lot of businessfolk around here.


51 posted on 03/31/2009 8:59:52 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Common courtesy, like common sense, isn't.)
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To: Jim Hill

Does no one remember that during the campaign, possibly about a year ago, there was news that Obama was “flirting” with the idea of being a “sponsor” of a Nascar car? It was seen to be some kind of novel campaign move, fraught with dangerous possibilities though, so they scrapped it. Another thing that makes me believe it’s an April Fool’s joke..


52 posted on 03/31/2009 9:00:17 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("One was drawing funny faces, but his own was grave"--Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica)
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To: Jim Hill

April 1, xxxx


53 posted on 03/31/2009 9:01:30 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Jim Hill
Unbelievable.

Yes. A good joke.

54 posted on 03/31/2009 9:03:07 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Jim Hill

Someone Recruit some brothers from tha hood fer NASCAR drivers.

We uns gonna hafta play tha Race card on BHO If’n he don’t change his mind.


55 posted on 03/31/2009 9:05:42 PM PDT by 4Speed
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To: Gondring

Well, if so, the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, and Rocky Mountain News have all been taken in by it.


56 posted on 03/31/2009 9:09:58 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: steve86

As were many millions of Americans.

He is a complete joke.


57 posted on 03/31/2009 9:12:12 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: All

I considered the possibility that this was a joke, but except for the fact that it’s April 1st, is there any suggestion of artifice in the tone or tenor of the article? It reads like a fairly sober news article to me. Does real news stop just because it’s April Fools’ Day?


58 posted on 03/31/2009 9:13:03 PM PDT by Jim Hill
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To: steve86

Click next and previous on the story bars and the story isn’t there.


59 posted on 03/31/2009 9:13:44 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Chaguito; scan59

I don’t get that. It goes in numerical order for me and nothing’s missing. Every day there’s more CRAP we are supposed to put up with from this MF.
This is getting way past the ridiculous.


60 posted on 03/31/2009 9:15:40 PM PDT by babyfreep
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