Obama likes to brag in speeches about how brave he was to go up to Michigan and tell the auto industry that they would have to raise fuel mileage standards, raising costs and costing Michigan jobs.
What he doesn’t mention, of course, was that he gave that brave speech after he’d seen the polling indicating he was going to lose Michigan to Clinton and pulled his name off the ballot.
If Obama is the Democratic nominee, Michigan wouldn’t just a tossup, it would lean toward McCain. As much as the Levin/Conyers mafia is in the bag for Obama, the UAW foot soldiers aren’t going to lay their bodies on the line for him, after he’s already told them to go relieve themselves up a rope.
IIRC, he told a pretty big whopper at that speech. Comparing the U.S. auto industry to Japan's, he said words to the effect that the U.S. fleet average was around 20 M.P.G., while Japan's was something like 32 M.P.G. The reality is that while the Jap auto makers do have a higher fleet average, they beat the U.S. fleet avg. by something like 1/2 M.P.G.
The man just CAN'T resist telling a lie...