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Hey Joe Biden! The GM Volt is dead and Al Quaeda is alive

Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 01:27 PM

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Joe Bidens premature victory cry of “GM is alive and Bin Laden is dead,” rings pretty hollow these days. If that’s all he and President Obama have to hang their hat on after 4 years of “hope and change,” it is a pitiful campaign slogan.

A Similar, premature proclamation hung around George Bush’s neck when he declared “victory” in Iraq, when in reality there were still bloody years ahead.

Heralded by the 2009 Obama apology tour speech in Cairo, this week was a shock to Joe and his boss Barack Obama, as their naive “re-set” of foreign policy shattered in violence. Our Ambassador in Libya was killed and our embassies all over the Islamic world were under siege by angry mobs.

The knee jerk reaction from the shocked Obama administration was to blame the violence on spontaneous reaction to a cheesy video on the internet that poked fun of the Islamic religion. But facts lead to the conclusion that at least the Libyan embassy attack was pre-planned and under the influence of Al Quaeda…Ominously for the Obama/Biden narrative, killing Osama Bin Laden, didn't mean the end of Al Quaeda and the huge wave of anti American violence showed the last 4 years of Obama diplomacy hadn't changed hearts and minds in the Islamic world.

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But buried under the blizzard of foreign policy failure, another tassled shoe was about to drop. It was learned the heavily govt. subsidized Chevy Volt, built by the heavily govt. subsidized General Motors has had disastrous sales. In spite of huge tax credits and the Obama administration trying to artificially inflate sales by forcing the defense Dept to buy Volts…few in the general public are buying them. Forbes Magazine said there are enough scams here to satisfy a Chicago politician.

The Volt was the poster child of the Obama administration, an example of “how to” in leading the way for billions of govt dollars doled out to “renewable energy” schemes. Almost all of these green energy schemes, including subsidizing, solar companies and electric car manufacturing, have proven to be an utter failure.

Last week General Motors stated they wanted the Obama administration to sell its share of stock it owns in their company, the image of being known as Government Motors is hurting business.

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Monsoonman | Oct 04, 2012, 12:05 PM EDT

Cheers Lad!

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seanomelb | Oct 03, 2012, 08:53 PM EDT

Having our warmest day in Melbourne for many a month. Summer just around the corner,the dams are full(29% in '10 and now at 75%)The earth maybe warming up but the rain keeps on coming. Hope the dry spell in Cali did not affect the golf Mman,Cheers.

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Monsoonman | Oct 03, 2012, 08:47 PM EDT

LOL Lad...Waxing poetic again I see...How are thing in Oz?

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seanomelb | Oct 02, 2012, 07:03 PM EDT

Poor old Ed!! I can hear the desperation in his voice.Maybe you should drive your chevvy to the levy and dump your right wing bullsh@@t over the side.

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McNamara31 | Sep 28, 2012, 11:43 AM EDT

Time to move with "Forward" thinking.

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Monsoonman | Sep 26, 2012, 10:14 AM EDT

True---I should have prefaced it with: At current technological development wind-solar-renewables will NEVER supply the power needs of our country....There is always a miracle. So let me ask you: Why mass produce with govt $ and force hugely expensive and inept energy upon us, if it isn't refined and fully developed and costing 22 cents per kilowat hr when carbon based energy costs 4 cents per kilowatt hr? Does that make sense to you?

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McNamara31 | Sep 26, 2012, 08:30 AM EDT

Monsoonman "will never supply the power needs" When you start off with "never" you take away any potential for new possibilities.

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Monsoonman | Sep 25, 2012, 05:49 PM EDT

It's all well and good, commendable in fact. But you still need ignorant, brute force power to make the "smart grid" work. Unicorn dust/solar/wind/green/"renewable" will never supply the power needs of this modern country, unless we go back to being an agrarian society...

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McNamara31 | Sep 25, 2012, 03:19 PM EDT

Monsoonman You need a better understanding of "Smart Grid" technology. Any energy source can feed a smart grid. The technology is more efficient at utilizing, and level loading the energy that flows through the grid and enables the home owner to use appliances (or charge cars)at off peak times at lower rates to all. So your statement about leftist talking points is extremely narrow minded as are the rest of your comments in your post below.Anyone interested in Smart Grid technology can look up Excels Smart Grid City in Boulder Colorado to see its potential.

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Monsoonman | Sep 23, 2012, 06:35 PM EDT

Furthermore China is aggressively buying up and developing oil and gas reserves around the world, even bough up a large quamtity of the oil Canada was going to ship to us through the Keystone Pipeline, which your Marxist, "green" leader obama, blocked from becoming reality...geesh, "you people" don't have a clue what it take to turn on that lightbulb you take for granted. One of these days under your stupid policies, that lightbulb will only work during the day, when solar power functions.

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Monsoonman | Sep 23, 2012, 06:18 PM EDT

Just going to poop that on the blog and trot off like my neighbors dog does on my lawn? Anything china is doing, we are paying for through the debt your entitlement society is chocking us on. Chinas Premiere stated he was not pursuing wind/solar for power, they don't work. China is pursuing more hydro electric/nukes/coal to bring their grid into the 20th century. Get yr leftist talking point, "facts" straight.

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McNamara31 | Sep 23, 2012, 04:26 PM EDT

China is investing 2 trillion in smart grid technology to power the country and plan to have half of their vehicles, hybrids fed by the grid by 2020.Back in the U.S. the GOP blocks any real plan towards clean energy and still keep us dependent on fossil fuels. Our present grid and infrastructure is crumbling and the GOP is stuck in Dinosaur type thinking just like the fossil fuels they protect.

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jerrydonovan | Sep 23, 2012, 11:28 AM EDT

FOUR MORE YEARS!Oh yeah. 'nough said.

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