Obama pauses NATO ,Too sell car, he pats himself on back

[Tommyt]

SO should we be thrilled we have a salesman potus or do we need a Commander in Chief
I know one thing He sure is selling us out 
But stops to pat himself for bailing GM out

Tommyt

Obama pauses at NATO summit to tout new GM hybrid

LISBON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama took time out from a NATO summit in Lisbon on Saturday to tout a new hybrid electric car which General Motors plans to roll out in Europe next year.

Obama found himself acting as salesman-in-chief for GM Opel's Ampera model just days after he declared in Washington that U.S. taxpayers would get their money back for saving GM in a bailout that was broadly unpopular.

Calling the Ampera an "example of GM technology," Obama said: "This is the future."

"This is a car made in America," he said after inspecting an Ampera at the convention center where he was wrapping up a two-day NATO summit. "We're going to start selling it in Europe."

GM last week was refloated as a public company amid heavy investor demand, and the White House sought to take credit for what it saw as a successful turnaround.

Public anger over the bailout, along with rescue packages for Wall Street banks, contributed to heavy losses for Obama's Democrats in the November 2 congressional election.

But the stock sale capped GM's recovery from near-collapse, thanks to a $50 billion government rescue.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101120/ts_nm/us_obama_gm

[billy_56081]

ANyone who has a background in electronics knows that until the superconductor is perfected the electrical vehicle is a pipedream. Now hybrids are a different thing, they are more economical than a straight gas only combustion engine, but are more complex therefore more prone to breakdown. A truly evolutionary idea in fuel savings would be a camshaft free gasoline engine, with computer controled solinoids as valves, this engine would be able to ajust the valve timing to make it perform better at different RPM levels. A camshaft is wasted energy.

[Conan The Librarian]

I think they're trying to sell us a crank shaft free gasoline engine.

[SwampThing762]

Well,

We know what Ole' Stinker is going to do when he gets out office...be a car salesman.

ST762