Posted on 09/27/2011 4:53:56 PM PDT by mandaladon
For the only Detroit automaker that "didn't take the money" of the federal auto bailouts, Ford Motor Co. keeps paying a price for its comparative success and self-reliant turnaround...
As part of a campaign featuring "real people" explaining their decision to buy the Blue Oval, a guy named "Chris" says he "wasn't going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government," according the text of the ad, launched in early September.
"I was going to buy from a manufacturer that's standing on their own: win, lose, or draw. That's what America is about is taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you gotta' pick yourself up and go back to work."
That's what some of America is about, evidently. Because Ford pulled the ad after individuals inside the White House questioned whether the copy was publicly denigrating the controversial bailout policy CEO Alan Mulally repeatedly supported in the dark days of late 2008, in early '09 and again when the ad flap arose. And more.
With President Barack Obama tuning his re-election campaign amid dismal economic conditions and simmering antipathy toward his stimulus spending and associated bailouts, the Ford ad carried the makings of a political liability when Team Obama can least afford yet another one. Can't have that.
The ad, pulled in response to White House questions (and, presumably, carping from rival GM), threatened to rekindle the negative (if accurate) association just when the president wants credit for their positive results (GM and Chrysler are moving forward, making money and selling vehicles) and to distance himself from any public downside of his decision.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
Ford is probing Obama’s defenses.
Aren’t you glad your taxpayer money is being used to punish a company that is successful and self-relient and doesn’t try to sponge off the government?
Either fail and take government handouts or the government will punish you.
And the era of censorship continues.
First the politically correct censors, then the easily offended censors; now this.
His intellectuals processes aren't developed enough for any formally-derived ideology, no matter how deluded.
He is a corporatist.
He knows how to stick his hand into the pockets of large corporations.
He doesn't like small businesses and entrepreneurs and wants to tax them out of existence because they have no pockets he can pick and are therefore of no use to him.
Didn’t Whitaker make an ad bragging that GM had repaid its loan, even though that was far from the truth? That was a direct political contribution to Obama, it was supposed to make Obama look good.
“More proof that we have marxist in the WH.”
Come 2012, if one, I mean even ONE lazy Republican sits on his dead ass and doesn’t vote, GOD HELP US!!!!!
>>> More proof that we have marxist in the WH. >>>
.... and proof the ad was resonating......
Ford didn’t want to become the next Gibson Guitar.
No, they are not; no, they are not; and yes, they do.
Ford took less, but they still took.
And the upcoming UAW contract will open a LOT of eyes...Ford is gonna fold like a cheap suit.
“The ad, pulled in response to White House questions”
When a company as big as FoMoCo can be bullied into silence for their unforgivable sin of Embarrassing El Presidente, .....
“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton
This Govt needs to be downsized.
“Come 2012, if one, I mean even ONE lazy Republican sits on his dead ass and doesn’t vote, GOD HELP US!!!!!”
If I have to, I will vote for McCain AGAIN.
-——denigrating -——
They just can’t resist playing the race card and their skin is very thin
and if they do, my next vehicle will be a Toyota. We currently have 4 Fords and one very old Chevy PU.
WH to Ford; “Nice company youse got there. Be a shame if sumthin’ was to happen to it.”
The same White House that got MGM to permanently deep-six the new “Red Dawn”...
Local Ford dealer still playing it here in TX.
I agree with you. None of these auto companies can get on the wrong side of Obama They have to give in. I guess I was speaking more of the general conditions than any specific example.
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