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1. Author: jpotts Date: 03/20/2009 02:55 PM Reply
Here’s a recent Obama quote:
"For decades we’ve avoided doing what we must do as a nation to turn -- turn challenge into opportunity. As a consequence we import more oil than we did on 9/11. The... The 1908 Model T -- think about this! The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than the typical SUV in 2008. Think about that, a hundred years later and we’re getting worse gas mileage, not better."
Ok, here’s a few facts about the Model T:
* uses leaded gasoline (and ethanol),
* has no catalytic converter,
* has a 20 HP engine,
* gets 21 MPG,
* rear-wheel drive only,
* has a TERRIBLE suspension,
* no power steering,
* no power brakes,
* no radio,
* no heater,
* no air conditioning,
* top speed of about 45 MPH,
* no safety features like airbags,
* no electronic ignition,
* no windows (with the exception of a windshield).
Now, for a Ford Explorer:
* Uses unleaded gasoline (while the Explorer does not use ethanol, many Ford vehicles do),
* has a catalytic converter,
* has a 210 HP engine,
* gets 20 MPG,
* is available in rear-wheel and four-wheel / all-wheel drive,
* has a superior suspension compared to a Model T,
* has power steering,
* has power brakes,
* comes with an AM/FM/CD stereo,
* comes with a heater,
* comes with air conditioning,
* top speed of over 100 MPH,
* comes with safety features like airbags,
* has an electronic ignition (meaning you don’t have to hand-crank your car to get it to start),
* comes with windows,
* POLLUTES LESS.
But the Model T gets better gas mileage (by about 1 MPG). What’s even funnier is that if you get the 2009 Ford Explorer with a V8 engine, you get as good, if not better, gas mileage as the Model T.
Mind you, this guy was educated in the Ivy League school system...
2. Author: Kingfisher Date: 03/20/2009 03:16 PM Reply
Uhhhh...(scratching head) so Obama was correct in stating that the Model T got better gas mileage, right? And that makes GWB look like a genius?
Ok, sure.
3. Author: JonR Date: 03/20/2009 03:29 PM Reply
"Mind you, this guy was educated in the Ivy League school system..."
Yes but cheesing obama only attended a few classes (he was a basketball player) and when he took tests he only had to write "present" for his answers.
JonR
4. Author: JadeRose Date: 03/20/2009 03:37 PM Reply
I picture Potts wandering around a tin-roofed shack wearing underwear, a filthy wife beater and black socks clutching a bottle of Kessler’s and mumbling to himself....."That sumbitch....that guddam muslim, towelhead sumbitch..I know he’s the devil..I just knows it."
Dude....get help
5. Author: Ram27 Date: 03/20/2009 03:39 PM Reply
^LMAO Good one Jade.............
6. Author: tailgater Date: 03/20/2009 03:43 PM Reply
government....is....the....solution...to....everything....
7. Author: jackconrad Date: 03/20/2009 03:45 PM Reply
http://obamaclock.org/
8. Author: engletl Date: 03/20/2009 03:45 PM Reply
I see the point...
whilst we have lost 1 mpg from the Model T to now we have gained far fewer greenhouse emisions
So if you think the Model T is the way to go you are no friend of Al Gore!
9. Author: tailgater Date: 03/20/2009 03:51 PM Reply
Let’s not forget, obama’s quote is exactly how ALL politicians, but especially the democrats, view things in life.
Obama doesn’t see that it’s an apples to oranges comparison.
He doesn’t care that it would be easy to make a 20HP engine that gets MUCH better MPG than the 45 that Ford achieved way back when.
All that is irrelevant.
Just like his "stimulus" plan:
He doesn’t care that he’s "fixing" a problem by making it worse.
That the Trillions being invested will yield less than a trillion in return.
Obama is simply the emperor without any clothes.
And by clothes, I mean substance.
And by emperor I mean chosen-one.
hope and change.
Peace out.
10. Author: DrMaddVibe Date: 03/20/2009 03:53 PM Reply
EMPTY SUIT
11. Author: jpotts Date: 03/20/2009 04:10 PM Reply
4. Author: JadeRose Date: 03/20/2009 03:37 PM Reply
I picture Potts wandering around a tin-roofed shack wearing underwear, a filthy wife beater and black socks clutching a bottle of Kessler’s and mumbling to himself....."That sumbitch....that guddam muslim, towelhead sumbitch..I know he’s the devil..I just knows it."
Dude....get help
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I might point out that this is the guy who is going to be in control of GM, and can’t figure out that what he’s asking for is a car with less power, less capability, less options, and pollutes far worse.
But hey, your apology is accepted.
Why do you hate Americans JadeRose?
12. Author: donutboy2000 Date: 03/20/2009 04:11 PM Reply
BUY YOUR CARBON OFFSETS NOW!!!!
13. Author: jpotts Date: 03/20/2009 04:12 PM Reply
2. Author: Kingfisher Date: 03/20/2009 03:16 PM Reply
Uhhhh...(scratching head) so Obama was correct in stating that the Model T got better gas mileage, right? And that makes GWB look like a genius?
Ok, sure.
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Great! If that’s the case, I recommend you try buing a Model T (yes, they still do exist), and use it as your everyday car.
And your apology is accepted.
14. Author: jpotts Date: 03/20/2009 04:24 PM Reply
By the way, whan in the hell is "Kessler’s"?
15. Author: burgess_b Date: 03/21/2009 06:45 AM Reply
but, if you look at the quote that YOU typed, he is merely talking mileage...and unless i failed math class, 21>20. right?
as for quality, safety, joy of driving--Obama never said anything, and i doubt he would, as it would be off-target. OIL!
16. Author: Gene363 Date: 03/21/2009 08:19 AM Reply
What mileage would that SUV get without all the government required anti-pollution and safety equipment? It would burn less fuel and kill off a lot of people more people so we could reduce our medical costs.
17. Author: neopuritan Date: 03/21/2009 08:29 AM Reply
I’d like to see a model-t fitted with the armor required for a presidential limo... NOW let’s see what mileage that gets.
18. Author: Charlie Date: 03/21/2009 12:48 PM Reply
He is a very, very empty suit to say the least...
where is my teleprompter?
Uh I bowl like a Special Olympics kid,
I did not say that, at least did not mean to say it that way.
earmarks? there will be no earmarks under my administration.
Uh, help me Joe...what do I do with that misquote?
OH, I misremembered that event and statement.
How are my NCAA brackets going, tell me before I have to meet with the Prime Minister....just tell him to reschedule that meeting, I am watching North Carolina play.
LOL, it is a hard job...
Charlie
19. Author: pablo Date: 03/21/2009 01:15 PM Reply
3. Author: JonR Date: 03/20/2009 03:29 PM Reply
"Mind you, this guy was educated in the Ivy League school system..."
"Yes but cheesing obama only attended a few classes (he was a basketball player) and when he took tests he only had to write "present" for his answers."
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...guess that’s all it takes to be the ruler of the free world
20. Author: beanasdad Date: 03/21/2009 01:28 PM Reply
We’ve missed the most important part of Obama’s statement: He’s paraphrasing some one else’s thoughts, from an article posted a month before the elections.
From
http://www.dietdetective.com/content/view/3493/198/
or
http://preview.tinyurl.com/baracksnotsooriginalthoughts
(Gee that kinda defeated the purpose of tiny url, huh?)
1908 Ford Model T vs. 2008 Ford Pick-Up
by Melissa Goldberg
Monday, 06 October 2008
"On October 1st, 2008, the Ford Model-T turned 100-years-old. Back in 1908, the year my grandmother was born, this "universal car" as Henry Ford called it, became the first mass-produced car and the symbol of low-cost reliable transportation. But more important than it’s centenial, the Model T got 13-21 MPG (max speed 45 MPH), and it was the first flexible-fuel vehicle, running on gas, ethanol or both. According to Model T collector Stu Chaney of the Model T Ford Club of America who appeared on the The CBS Satuday Early Show, "It will run on moonshine, gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel-- about anything you can put a match to. And, whatever it runs on, it would pass today’s very strict emission standards, because it burns the complete charge in the combustion."
Call me crazy but why are we no better off 100 years later?"
21. Author: DrMaddVibe Date: 03/21/2009 02:21 PM Reply
Shhhhhhh...Hoyodude is sleeping. Don’t wake him up from his slumber.
22. Author: RICKAMAVEN Date: 03/21/2009 02:55 PM Reply
PUTZYBOY
"Why do you hate Americans JadeRose?"
he doesn’t, it’s just you. i do not agree with the wife beater part,though.
your like job asking god why he has caused job so many calamities, and job hears a loud voice saying
"there’s just something about you that pisses me off"
23. Author: beanasdad Date: 03/21/2009 03:28 PM Reply
"there’s just something about you that pisses me off"
And I thought I had read all the red words. Who knew?
24. Author: donutboy2000 Date: 03/21/2009 03:38 PM Reply
#22
What about an apology for BHO?
25. Author: JonR Date: 03/21/2009 03:42 PM Reply
Re #22:
Once again the little atheist who has no need for God or Religion mocks the Bible. madalyn murray o’hara would be proud.
JonR
26. Author: donutboy2000 Date: 03/21/2009 05:07 PM Reply
Helicopter Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve is dropping trillions of fresh paper dollars on the world economy, the President of the United States is cracking jokes on late night comedy shows, his energy minister is threatening a trade war over carbon emissions, his treasury secretary is dithering over a banking reform program amid rising concerns over his competence and a monumentally dysfunctional U.S. Congress is launching another public jihad against corporations and bankers.
As an aghast world — from China to Chicago and Chihuahua — watches, the circus-like U.S. political system seems to be declining into near chaos. Through it all, stock and financial markets are paralyzed. The more the policy regime does, the worse the outlook gets. The multi-ringed spectacle raises a disturbing question in many minds: Is this the end of America?
FT
27. Author: Double D Date: 03/21/2009 05:20 PM Reply
How is that "buyers remorse" feeling right about now, all you leftie wingnut Hussein Obama apologists?
LOL!!
DD™
28. Author: Kingfisher Date: 03/21/2009 06:08 PM Reply
Here are the words directly from your "genius’" mouth jpotts:
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
"They misunderestimated me." —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
"There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
"I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2008
To quote the Guiness guys.. "BRILLIANT!" Just f’ing brilliant....
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So, what you're basically saying that His Excellency Barack (Idi Amin) Hussein (village idiot) Obama - since he's even more stupid than Bish - is even more pathetic than originally thought?
You might be on to something here...