Obamateurism of the Day

BO doesn’t give a damn about red states. That’s obvious in his handling of the oil spill.

It’s evident in other ways although there hasn’t been much discussion about it.

July 22, 2010
Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures
By William Tate
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The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most unlikely source: one of the administration’s own inspectors general.

Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto industry bailout — closures the Obama administration forced on General Motors and Chrysler — were based in part on race and gender, according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

[D]ealerships were retained because they were recently appointed, were key wholesale parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned dealerships. [Emphasis added.]

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As has been widely reported, the Inspector General’s study skewered the Obama Gang for strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000 dealerships, costing an estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a recession.

But the news media has ignored key elements of Barofsky’s report — elements that are far more damaging, if possible, to Obama. As we reported earlier in the week, a top Obama official, manufacturing czar and “Auto Team” leader Ron Bloom admitted that the dealerships could have been kept open, saving those jobs, “but that doing so would have been inconsistent with the President’s mandate for ‘shared sacrifice.’”
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Nevertheless, as Barofsky notes, “ultimately close to half of all of the GM dealerships identified for termination were in rural areas.”

That is where raw, hard, sewage-filled Chicago politics came into play.

Records indicate that in 2008, Obama lost the vote totals in the nation’s 1,300 rural counties by nearly 80%.

The Obama administration’s insistence on radical numbers of closures ended up shuttering dealerships in those rural areas disproportionately, while dealerships and jobs in metro areas — Obama’s geographical base — were left open.
experts said that while metro areas were oversaturated with GM and Chrysler dealerships and reductions were needed in these areas, this was not the case in rural areas where GM and Chrysler had an advantage over their import competitors. [...]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/race_played_role_in_obama_car.html

Is anyone surprised?

Cody1991 on July 23, 2010 at 8:44 AM

So………. millions of people who want jobs hope that unemployment benefits will sustain them while their lives are put on hold. Want a job? Go get a gub’mint check says Zippy.

Meanwhile, the Obies party on:

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Life Is A Cabaret, Old Chum

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2010/07/life-is-cabaret-old-chum.html

All on the taxpayer’s dime. Recession? Depression? Say what”! Life is good for the ruling class. And they don’t mind throwing it in your face. In fact, they’re doing it purposely. Oh… and it’s time for yet another vacation.

Cody1991 on July 23, 2010 at 9:27 AM