Obama: Mission Accomplished | themichiganview.com | The Michigan View

Standing in front of a Jeep Grand Cherokee in Chrysler's Jefferson North Detroit assembly plant Friday afternoon, President Obama Friday declared that Chrysler "was building the fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow." Come again?

The visual non-sequitor was one of many jarring notes in his "Mission Accomplished" visit to Detroit automakers. At one point the president even compared Chrysler's bailout to winning the lottery -- hardly a model for planning long-term corporate security.

Eager to claim credit for charting a new course for Detroit with "targeted investments making new technologies," the president strangely chose as his backdrop the iconic Jeep SUV brand that first launched the small truck craze in the 1980s. This the same vehicle that Obama and his green allies condemn as having laid waste to the planet.

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"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

The Greenroom » Climate Anecdote

Whenever you do even the smallest amount of research, you discover that the most repetitive claims being touted as AGW/CC “science” are worse than junk science: they are like fairy tales for toddlers. The Bugs Bunny-Roadrunner Hour I used to watch as a kid offered more empiricism and integrity. Given the numerous holes and guesses infesting our current temperature databases, I assess that the best we can truthfully say is that it looks like there’s been a slight rise in the globally-averaged temperature in the past half-century, if we consider solely the numbers offered from those databases – but ultimately, we can’t be absolutely sure.

HughHewitt.com Blog : Hugh Hewitt : “You paid for this thing. Why not pay a little more?”

That's Allahpundit's suggested slogan for the Volt.

Watching the president chest thump about Government Cars telegraphs the Democrats' November campaign.

Believe it or not they are going to run on the takeover of GM --with the 50 billion tax infusion infusion for stock, followed by the complete screwing of the bond holders and thousands of dealers in order to save their UAW allies-- as an example of what can be done when the government picks winners and losers according to its political favorites.