McCain’s 13 Poor Quality American Cars

CNN’s political ticker reports that McCain has 13 cars and that Democrats are seizing on the opportunity to create much ado about nothing.  By no means construe that sentence to mean that the Republican offal of the world isn’t wont to do the same thing.

So the “facts” are allegedly that McCain:

  • Owns 13 cars.
  • 1 is a Honda
  • 1 is a Volkswagen
  • His wife drives a Lexus
  • His daughter drives a Prius
  • The last two aren’t “registered to the McCain’s”
  • The all-time master at duping hoardes of Americans into blindly consuming morsels of sound bites with no substance, Barak Obama has one car: a Ford Escape hybrid.

Beyond the wanton spin of the piece, I did find this amusing:

In a quickly-arranged conference call organized by the Democratic National Committee, United Auto Worker Union President Ron Gettelfinger — an Obama supporter — said the registration records show McCain is not being truthful with Americans and undermining autoworkers.

“The last thing we need is a presidential candidate who undermines autoworkers, and these days it seems that John McCain is doing just exactly that,” he said. “When he’s in the Midwest, he tells voters he supports the industry, when he is in other states he brags about buying a foreign car, as he did with the Prius.” (It is not clear if McCain or his daughter bought the Prius)

I’ve got one thing to say to Mr. Ron Gettelfinger:

If American auto companies stopped making over-priced, fuel inefficient, feature lacking pieces of crap maybe more of us would buy them.

If these “unions” would get their heads out of their asses and let their companies succeed rather than trying to leach pensions and healthcare for their families with 14 children, American auto companies might actually be able to innovate and compete with the likes of Honda and Toyota.

Me?  I’ll take the economic health of HMC and TM any day of the week.  And while I’m holding their stocks and reaping their dividends, I’ll buy their cars until we can make something better.

23,000 Big Macs in 36 years

It’s people like this guy that make me appreciate the dividend on MCD.