Curbside Classic Outtake: The Capitalist And The Communist

by Paul Niedermeyer

Published: April 18th, 2010

curbside classic outtake the capitalist and the communist

Since one of the the themes today seems to be around old Ford trucks, with a minor in Communism, I present to you the living proof that Ford and Lenin did meet.

If politics is not your thing this beautiful Sunday morning, then maybe a more random curbside shot is:

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Stewart Dean on Apr 19, 2010

Ah c'mon General Malaise...you can say all kinds of poisonous things about the Current Occupant or you *could* give him the respect of his office while making some clean-cut valid rational arguments. So Obama plays golf and basketball, much as Bush rode a mountain bike and cleared brush on his ranch. So what? More to the point, Bush spent 879 days on his ranch, breaking even Reagan's record for vacationing and he was at the ranch: a) at the tail end of a month-long vacation when Katrina roared ashore in New Orleans. He was told the levies might not hold and did nothing. Then, when *everything* came unglued, he....did next to nothing ("Hell of a job, Brownie!"). He did indeed prove that government was the problem (incompetent gov't) but it wasn't the government that got drowned in the bathtub(ala Norquist) but the city of New Orleans b) in the August before 9/11, when the CIA director Tenet and Richard Clarke (the chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council) had their pants on fire about intelligence on a major planned assault on America by terrorist, Bush couldn't be bothered. Flat out, Bush was incompetent and disengaged except for his enthusiasms like the War in Iraq (no WMDs found and the Middle East is *much* more unstable now). I have issues with Obama, too: like the continued warrentless surveillance of America phone and Internet traffic. He like unlimited power too. As for Obama not going to the Polish President's funeral, GM...you might have noticed that flights across the Atlantic and Europe have been suspended due to atmospheric volcanic dust. That was the reason Obama gave for not going to funeral when he called Poland's acting President. Could we stick to the facts and reason and leave the mud-slinging out? And I have to say (dragging us back to TTAC territory)....I don't care much for the Cadillac limos Obama travels in...think Bush's Suburbans had more class.

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- Psarhjinian on Apr 19, 2010
  
  Tangential point: why not sell something like Land Force One (or whatever they call the Prezmobile) to the general public? I'm surprised we haven't seem more trucks dropped and converted into sedans.
  
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- GeneralMalaise on Apr 19, 2010
  
  I made the point about golf in response to the nitwit comment you made about vacation time, Stewie. Anyone who sincerely believes that ANY occupant of the Oval Office is really "on vacation" when away from DC is an outright moron. And your selective memory about who could have reacted a little better to Hurricane Katrina conveniently overlooks the decidedly inept mayor of NO and the weeping, hand-wringer of a governor... both Democrats. And the Clinton administration's pathetic anti-terror policies for the 8 years of his administration. But that's all behind us. As for the current occupant, he's a supremely arrogant, unaccomplished, though eloquent, individual who is presiding over the largest expansion of the federal government the U.S. has ever undergone. He can't help but condescend to someone nearly every time he opens his mouth, he's sold out allies like Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, Great Britain and emboldened adversaries like Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and - last but not least - Iran. Centrist, my ass. Anyone with children or grandchildren who is not fearful of the future and debt they will inherit is asleep at the wheel. Agree about the Suburbans over the Caddies, however.
  
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GeneralMalaise on Apr 20, 2010

Strike the term "moron", should have left it at "seriously mistaken"... my apologies.

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