Kirk, At Home Depot, Hammers Home A Political Point
Even Obama backer Ron Kirk, whose ambition these days is to be “the [new] president’s best friend,” has to do weekend chores around the house. So there he was Sunday at the Skillman/Abrams Home Depot, fresh off the campaign trail, shopping basket in hand. I knew the former Dallas mayor is a car aficionado, so we jawboned about his recent appearance on CNN, where he’d commented that the Democrats had the luxury of choosing this year between “a BMW and a Mercedes” (Obama and Hillary). Whereupon another Democrat on the program, mindful of blue-collar protectionist sentiment, had quickly corrected, “Maybe we’d better make that an American car, Ron.” Kirk laughed about the exchange Sunday, adding: Hey, why shouldn’t we be able to say that–”we’re New Democrats!”
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So a BMW and Mercedes…two car manufacturers with big, flash names…known for high performance but suffer from rampant quality issues. They are losing quite a bit of ground to less flashy, but very reliable, companies.
I’ll keep my Honda or Toyota instead…built and assembled in America, but spent some considerable times “trapped” overseas in an Asian country.