bought off eBay what looked to be a sweet looking '59 Ford with a 352 FE. He'd gotten into a costly long drawn out Bid-war with an older obviously more experienced car guy so it cost Obama a bunch more then he planned but he's happy - he got the ride of his dreams!
Just today while his own Gal went to see the old Mrs of the leased garage that comes with the '59, Obama met with the guy that just said call me "W" who's been running the '59 for nearly eight years.
"W" by the way because he grew up with a familly that owned a gas station never thought about it so all the 59's lube and fuel levils are nearly empty. All in all the old Fords in worse condition then when "W" got it as mentioned eight years ago.
A few days back to Obams's surprise he was advised by a few local plan clothed detectives that showed up and advised him about numerous low-life Chevy and Mopar guys that they said are endlessly planning schemes to mess his newly purchased '59 Ford up so he has to be extra carefull with it.

Obama being pretty smart, after just one look at the "59 has already figured they had a bunch of untrained mechanics that each did their own half-assed "unique" repairs on top of shoddy repairs. Obviously repairs were not done according to the '59 Ford shop manual. On top of that there are many other maintenance items that were neglected, she's got plenty of worn out parts, some rusty and rotten metal and Obama's not even gotten to get behind the wheel and take it for a spin yet, let alone take his women for a ride in it. That date comes in about two months when the paperworks all done.
Oddly Obama had grand intentions of souping it up like he's dreamed about for twenty years, putting on a new fancy paint job, more powerfull 428 Stroker, all new interior etc but now it kind of looks like Obama will have to devote way to much time and money into just keeping it running...
To make matters worse the Economy is all messed up, banks are in trouble and loans are hard to come by..Obama has a four year lease with an option of doubling that. Ought to be a wild ride!

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He just mixed up his meds.

of restoration,someone like Jay Leno that old 59 can turn out to be one sweet ride and keep it's beautful place in the world.

metaphors than mixed meds. I think BB is trying to say Obama has inherited a huge mess and it will be difficult to implemment many of the policies he would like to see. Mike

drinks to me. Way too many of them.



1912 Model T Ford touring Salmon (ugh!)
1913 Model T Ford Touring original Black paint
1915 Model T Ford Roadster Black
1915 Model T Ford touring Black of course!
1967 Cougar GT 390 Cardinal Red / Black
1968 Cougar GTE 427 Augusta Green / Saddle
http://www.supermotors.net/vehicles/registry/15029/50071-2

You know, after a few badly typed words or nonsensical sentences, the keyboard shuts off?

Obama worked and paid dearly to get his ass in the drivers seat of the USA. McCain was the older more experienced guy/other bidder that ran against Obama. Unfortunately the USA now days is not exactly in the shape of a new car but more like the neglected 59 Ford you'd find on eBay. Of course as with most Car Guys the car always looks better til you get it and then it's worse when you get behind the wheel and Obama's no doubt going to be finding out running/fixing up the USA might not be as sweet as he had dreamed.



As with any used car/USA it's had more then its share of previous owners that each Jerry-rigged it and skimped on repairs. Like Congressmen and Senators that each Jerry-rigged it and skimped on taking care of it properly and in our case they SOLD a lot of the rare parts/Banking Mess. The last guy behind the wheel (driving the USA for two terms/eight years) was "W" George Bush who ran it into the ground. George Bush happened to come from oil money and correspondingly he failed to address the USA's dependency on oil--the cars low on oil and fuel

Yesterday in the news Obama met at the White House with George Bush "W" while Obama's wife got the tour of the White house with Laura Bush... Ever go look at a car while your wife cries she got stuck with the sellers wife for an hour or two?

Obama's in for four years and if he's good he can get another four years, then like a old car the presidents/drivers seat of the 59 Ford/USA gets passed on to the next guy/President Elect with a gleam in his eyes that just knows he can easily fix it up and effortlessly be cruising along in no time.

Obama has great dreams/plans to fix up and change the USA unfortunately but with the state of the nation he's going to be short on $$ to achieve his goal just as the average Car Guy that dreams of stuffing in a stroker 428, paint job etc., the car that looked so good on eBay turns into a Major Project



Like I said = Ought to be a wild ride!

Money should be no problem for him. He should be able to get plenty more from the same place he got the BILLIONS to buy the car in the first place. That's what's scary. Who, where?

Talk nicely to the two guys in the stall on either side of him. One's got a slammed/hydraulic'ed '63 Impala but he's not talking to Obama because the cars previous owner kept accusing him of sweeping all his dirt into the '59's stall when he wasn't looking. In the other stall is a pimped out Ski-doo but he's not real civil either because the '59's previous owner wanted him to help break some skulls across the shop floor. He went the first time but but when he asked again he said no way.

Maybe the three of them could work together so the rest of the shop doesn't end up buying all three rides and then they'll just be riding on the bus that the rest of the shop owns.

Metaphorically speaking of course.


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All I think the old 59 will get is a new sound system with big speakers thumping down the road to drown out the squeaks and rattles. The smoke screen supplied by using free oil from the "Media" will hide the dents and rust. Windows will be tinted real dark to hide who is driving. Front end alignment and tire stagger will cause it to pull real hard to the left. After 40 miles it comes to a stop because the batteries are flat, fuel system is clogged with E-85 crud so as luck would have it it doesn't get too far off course. No maps or other aids to navigation were included. The only thing I know it was headed out for a place called change. Maybe the Ohare Towing company can haul it back to the south side of Chicago where it can be a lawn ornament.
Kam

after it's parked and left to rust further, twenty families of illeagles move into the ols 59, hot wire it and put in some free gas they stoled, drive to Micky D's/local Gov.office, for a meal/welfare and social security that the car owner is more then prepaired to give them.

Other then that BB, that was very unique.

dedom

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Sure its damaged a little (that's just normal wear 'n tear), and the brakes don't work (that's just a service item) - I'll admit that I took it into some wild backcountry a couple of times (sometimes you just can't take the high road) - ran it at WOT as much and as often as possible (sometimes you just have to see what its capable of, kind'a blow the carbon out). No harm no foul.

But, a new brake job, a valve job and a couple of mechanics tweaking the igniton ...it'll startup and run good as new. And don't worry about the body and paint - It'll Buff out.

But the big question is - when can I expect my security deposit back?

...he is going to do what he promised - part it out by giving little chunks to his "friends in need." If he has his way in a few years there will be no car - just a shattered pile of useless parts.

that might get his hands dirty and he's an intellectual. Nice article about this:

Among the many wonders to be expected from an Obama administration, if Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times is to be believed, is ending "the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life."

He cited Adlai Stevenson, the suave and debonair governor of Illinois, who twice ran for president against Eisenhower in the 1950s, as an example of an intellectual in politics.

Intellectuals, according to Mr. Kristof, are people who are "interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity," people who "read the classics."

It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry.

Adlai Stevenson was certainly regarded as an intellectual by intellectuals in the 1950s. But, half a century later, facts paint a very different picture.

Historian Michael Beschloss, among others, has noted that Stevenson "could go quite happily for months or years without picking up a book." But Stevenson had the airs of an intellectual -- the form, rather than the substance.

What is more telling, form was enough to impress the intellectuals, not only then but even now, years after the facts have been revealed, though apparently not to Mr. Kristof.

That is one of many reasons why intellectuals are not taken as seriously by others as they take themselves.

As for reading the classics, President Harry Truman, whom no one thought of as an intellectual, was a voracious reader of heavyweight stuff like Thucydides and read Cicero in the original Latin. When Chief Justice Carl Vinson quoted in Latin, Truman was able to correct him.

Yet intellectuals tended to think of the unpretentious and plain-spoken Truman as little more than a country bumpkin.

Similarly, no one ever thought of President Calvin Coolidge as an intellectual. Yet Coolidge also read the classics in the White House. He read both Latin and Greek, and read Dante in the original Italian, since he spoke several languages. It was said that the taciturn Coolidge could be silent in five different languages.

The intellectual levels of politicians are just one of the many things that intellectuals have grossly misjudged for years on end.

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model-- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.

New York Times Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for telling the intelligentsia what they wanted to hear-- that claims of starvation in the Ukraine were false.

After British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge reported from the Ukraine on the massive deaths from starvation there, he was ostracized after returning to England and unable to find a job.

More than half a century later, when the archives of the Soviet Union were finally opened up under Mikhail Gorbachev, it turned out that about six million people had died in that famine-- about the same number as the people killed in Hitler's Holocaust.

In the 1930s, it was the intellectuals who pooh-poohed the dangers from the rise of Hitler and urged Western disarmament.

It would be no feat to fill a big book with all the things on which intellectuals were grossly mistaken, just in the 20th century-- far more so than ordinary people.

History fully vindicates the late William F. Buckley's view that he would rather be ruled by people represented by the first 100 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.

How have intellectuals managed to be so wrong, so often? By thinking that because they are knowledgeable-- or even expert-- within some narrow band out of the vast spectrum of human concerns, that makes them wise guides to the masses and to the rulers of the nation.

But the ignorance of Ph.D.s is still ignorance and high-IQ groupthink is still groupthink, which is the antithesis of real thinking.

Have you ever seen a lawyer that could run a sucessful business? Look what Obama did after he had a confidential meeting with Bush, told the world what the conversation was. We are in so much trouble its unbelieveable, RWJ

This is non-partisan. And seems real:



http://fhu.com/kgb-brainwashing-video.html

LOL!!! That would make me an excellent choice to run "something". Thanks for the reality check.

That he can't get liability insurance on the 59 Ford/USA.

David

1970 Dark Ivy Green Metallic Mach 1, 428CJ, Close Ratio 4 Speed, 3.25 Gears. In family since new.