Posted on 12/11/2008 11:08:22 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Back when Barack Obama was still vying for the official Democratic presidential nod, the now President-elect made a well-publicized switch from a HEMI-powered Chrysler 300C to a Ford Escape Hybrid. The issue, of course, was that the HEMI is seen as a gas swiller (15 mpg city / 23 highway) and an obvious target for those looking to point a finger at the junior senator's green credentials. So, out went the 300C and in came the defacto mode of transportation for image conscious politicians: a Ford Escape Hybrid. The trade made headlines a while before everybody moved on to more important issues. Or have they? Obama's old 300C is back in the news and currently up for auction on eBay Motors.
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I can’t believe he would drive such as “white-person’s” car.
Now there’s a car under the bus too.
Maybe Rezko can buy it and put it up on blocks on his lot next to 0be’s house in Chitown.
Definitive proof that Barry is a Poser.
Also the first American automobile to be designed by a black man. So it fits Obama's racial divisiveness pretty well.
Yep....I spotted that deodorant Christmas Tree thingie hanging from the rear view mirror...dead giveaway.
I would check the owners manual and see if it was owned by John Voight.
No the 300C can be pimped out and made into a great black car (’great’ being great by pimped out standards, not mine). See them driving around all the time.
LOL, here I was thinking it was something like Adam Sandler’s Piece of [Junk] Car.
Shift knob’s a little loose. Have you been picking at it? /seinfeld
Can we get an Obamabot to shell out $49.95 for a Chrysler lug-nut? YES, WE CAN!
Ashtray must have been full.....
LOL....Looks like a Pimps car!
That was just wrong! I loved it! LOL
Whole lotta Obama “auction” highest bidder stuff goin’ on these days....
If he actually had real concerns, why wouldn’t he have the car destroyed?
According to DOE, it would take 150,000 miles in a hybrid, with gas at $2.79/gallon, for the extra cost of the hybrid to break-even with the extra gas use of the Chrysler. Only a moron or Leftists would push hybrids. LOL!
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A hemi-powered Chrylser 300C eh. File this under Obama’s “do as I say and not as I do” file along with his admonition Americans should speak a foreign language.
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