Posted on 03/01/2012 2:48:04 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama: I’ll Buy A Chevy Volt After My Presidency Ends March 1, 2012 5:32 PM
Ever since Barack Obama became president in 2008, he hasn’t been given much chance to drive a car, let alone own one.
But when his presidency ends, Mr. Obama knows exactly what car he wants to buy as his post-presidential ride — a plug-in Chevrolet Volt.
“Five years from now when I’m not president anymore, I’ll buy one and drive it myself,” Obama promised 1,600 auto workers at a United Auto Workers union event in Detroit on Tuesday.
“Yes, that’s right,” he reiterated, accompanied by deafening applause.
Back in July 2010, President Obama visited the Compact Power battery plant in Holland, Michigan, where he was given his first real Volt experience.
A few weeks later, Obama visited General Motor’s Detroit Hamtramck Facility where the Volt is built. He even got a chance to sit behind the wheel of a pre-production Volt and drive it 10 feet — but due to security concerns, didn’t get much further.
“The Secret Service wouldn’t let me drive it. But I liked sitting in it,” The President told the assembled audience. “It was nice. I’ll bet it drives real good.”
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That was quite a switch of direction.
RL.....My direction has always been USA FIRST and always. I’ve served, and I’ve seen the best of the USA as well as the worst after 9-11. Politics have become the least of my priorities.
We have a nation that has been corrupted and stolen by the lobbyists and the few. I support accountability and responsibility and the ethics of the golden rule and the rest and Parties be damned. God Bless the USA and XXXX the pols that would shaft us.
I think where you and I might disagree is on what is “American”, both in values and in form.
This article was about Barack Obama and his love of the GM made Volt.
Barack Obama no more shares the values of America than Hugo Chavez does, and neither does GM in the same way Citgo doesn’t.
What is it about dictators and their pet cars?
So he’ll be driving one of these fire hazards around Chicago this time next year?
By the way, that last post was with respect to where I thought we disagreed was this article, not in general terms. I don’t know you or your posting history well enough to come to that conclusion.
So, it wasn’t meant as disrespect.
Who gives a shit?
I’ll bet it drives real good.
The smartest man in the universe sounds illiterate.
It should be on order already so it will be ready in November.
Why not just buy it now and put it in your garage in Chicagotown?
Next January.
You don’t remember. Barack Insane Obama Sorento’s presiduncy ends with the 2012 election.
Remember that whole “Office of the President Elect” bullsh**?
Obama is not planning for that day to happen. In truth; Obama plans to be in charge far beyond the lifespan of a Chevy Volt. (It is not what he says; but what he means. . .)
Obama is not planning for that day to happen. In truth; Obama plans to be in charge far beyond the lifespan of a Chevy Volt. (It is not what he says; but what he means. . .)
““Five years from now when I’m not president anymore, I’ll buy one and drive it myself,” Obama promised 1,600 auto workers at a United Auto Workers union event in Detroit on Tuesday.”
Yeah, because he knows the union will have stocked it with dollars instead of batteries.
Do Ex-Presidents ever drive themselves? Obama is gonna be chauffeured around in gas-guzzling limos and towncars on the taxpayer dime for the rest of his miserable life.
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