Political Two Step: Obama Talks of Hybrids, But Drives A Hemi

All these politicians who talk green and campaign for earth, drive Suburbans and Excursions.

— LexusNumberOne4ever (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 9:53:52 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 10   

If he bought a Prius then everyone would moan that he doesn't support the US economy.

— ExigeOwner (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 11:21:48 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

Way to go Obama, buy us into your fuel efficiency plans and contradict it by driving a V8.

— Alec (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 11:23:39 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

Typical that suburban "nouveau rednecks" would harp on Obama's supposed hypocricy and ignore the brazen, deliberate, and in too many cases, criminal hypocricy of the current administration. Talking about hybrids and driving a 300 is one thing; talking about protecting the environment whlie you are eliminating emissions standards and enforcement and lining the pockets of your energy industry cronies is a whole order of magnitude more hypocritical. Kind of like the guy promoting abstinence at USAID seeing hookers on the side (but in this case the environment is the hooker).

Get a clue folks: over the next couple of years, as the onion gets peeled back on more and more criminal activity, you are about to look a whole lot more stupid and corrupt than Joseph McCarthy and Herbert Hoover supporters -- combined.

— powerbutton (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 11:24:37 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Autospies Agents:

Why do some comments get deleted? Is there censureship on autospies?

— w209w114 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 11:30:46 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

$5 bucks says nobody on this thread drives a car that gets 30MPG or better. Prove otherwise...please.

— r_driver04 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 12:01:13 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Absolutely their is censorship on autospies. My stories never get posted and comments are deleted. The administrators have an agenda!!! Control the message and the outcome will be what you want right.....

I was just quoting what others in the media had up there but Obama must be 001 and 009 favorite candidate!!

— jasongoudie (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 12:11:15 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

The LA times are the ones that called him that name 009. It had nothing to do with his ethnic background!!!!!!! It just goes to show you are an ignorant liberal just like the rest of them!!!

— jasongoudie (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 12:12:38 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Wow McCarthy and Hoover... Right out of the liberal talking points bible... Come up with some facts for you onion their. Prove it!!!!

— jasongoudie (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 12:14:46 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Opfreak, That's plain stupid. Most I know on the left--and since I am on the left, I know quite a few--drive relatively fuel-efficient cars, use fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent, recycle everything they can and do try to improve things. So save your cynicism for those deserving of it, rather than using an anecdote to try to prove a generality.

— mp2dtw (View Profile)

Posted on 5/12/2007 2:23:57 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

well in socialist circles it is not what you do it is how you feel. You don't have to change you have to force others to change

— IamEvilHomer (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2007 2:20:40 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

I will just say up front that I am not a liberal. I am more of a Goldwater conservative. What other people do on their property in their homes in none of my business and it most certainly isn’t the governments business. That is not even politics: that is simple manners, but for some reason both parties and the people who support them seem to think the concept of democracy gives them the right to dispense with etiquette- despite the fact that the United States has never been a democracy despite what politicians treasonously try to insinuate. Be glad it has never been.

Anyway, I was relatively ambivalent about Obama until recently when we gave a speech and state that 10,000 people died in the recent storms in Kansas. 10 people died not 10,000- three orders of magnitude off. That is a very large mistake. I don’t know if he has trying to sensationalize it or simply does not read the news, but either case I find unacceptable.

As far as his car: he's a politician what do you expect. My experience with politicans is that they,in particular career politicians, are smarmy slimy little bastards with absolutely no manners. I hate sychophants.

— cdoke (View Profile)

Posted on 5/11/2007 3:43:17 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

This proud liberal normally gets over 30 mpg and could do better too. We all could improve. What I don't understand is the halo so many Americans have put over Obama's head. If he get the nomination, of course I'll vote for him. He isn't any worse than anyone else running, but he certainly isn't all that great.

That doesn't mean we can get on the 'all politicians are hypocrites' bandwagon. The minute you start expecting as little of your politicians as you expect of yourself or your co-workers & neighbors is the minute you'll start understanding democracy. They're only people too.

— mp2dtw (View Profile)

Posted on 5/12/2007 1:38:31 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

how do they lower gas prices? "I command you to drop your prices" "I order you to not make any money"

Lower prices will come with greater supply and lower demand. Encourage refinaries and exploration, talk about alternitives like TDI, Bio-desiel, and reduce taxes on developers.

The easyest way to drop gas prices is to have a week economy. Give me $4.00 before a week economy.

— IamEvilHomer (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2007 2:31:36 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

We need to drive fuel efficient cars because it saves us from taking it as HARD as they're trying to give it to us.

— r_driver04 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2007 1:49:33 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

He's a Democrat, their strategy is tell ppl what they want to hear and worry about using the media to blame the Republicans later. If someone complains, say it's some redneck Texan that's the problem, or some BS race thing.

He's gonna need more than "I wanna be the first black President" as a platform. I have yet to hear anything that would make anyone want to vote for him.

He's such a hypocrite, he might as well drive a diesel while telling how we need to handover Iraq to China and the terrorists.

Knowing Bubba Clinton, he probably would've apologized to Al Qaeda for the US building the WTC too high.

To the know-nothing European cheap-ars diesel lovers, the TDI Jetta consumed 2x more oil than the Prius according to the EPA. Want me to prove it?

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2007 10:13:37 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

I'll do it anyway. Must've revised it already, it used to be 5.9 barrels. Oh well, still kills the diesel in mileage.

Prius 6.2 barrels
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm
Jetta TDI 10.3 barrels
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm

Obama could be worse though, he could drive a German car and complain about how we shouldn't buy Japanese inorder to support foreign made American/German cars.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2007 10:26:28 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Typical democrat.

— 993Turbo (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 9:20:21 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0