Foot-In-Mouth Disease Reigns: Biden Reveals Fisker’s Future Business Plans
Swine Flu’s got nothing on our Vice President’s case of Foot-in-Mouth disease.
If only there was a vaccine.
Joe Biden is well-known for his goofball status of saying exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time in, what we have to assume, is a genetic predisposition to unwittedness.
Take, for instance, yesterday’s announcement that Fisker Automotive would be purchasing a shuttered Delaware GM plant for the future production of Fisker’s upcoming Project Nina plug-in hybrid—the more reasonably priced sister car of Fisker’s flagship $80,000 Karma.
During that announcement Biden—who’s home state is Delaware—waxed on about how the plant will bring jobs back to the area and is exactly what we need to get our manufacturing sector back on line. But he just couldn’t hold himself back at the end of his speech, saying “imagine when this factory, when the floor we’re standing on right now is making 100,000 plug-in hybrid sedans, coupes and crossovers every single year.”
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The proclamation came as a shock to Henrik Fisker, co-founder and CEO of Fisker Automotive, who hadn’t yet announced any of the company’s plans to produce coupes or crossovers. Reporters for Fox News were able to corner Fisker after Biden’s gaffe and get him to confirm the company’s plans.
Granted, it’s no big shock that Fisker, who was recently awarded half a billion dollars in stimulus funds, has plans beyond the Karma and Project Nina. But a company’s business dealings and future plans are its alone to keep secret and defend.
You can watch a video of Fox’s interview with Fisker here.
Source: Auto Blog Green
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I think that your politics are showing!
Choralsinger,
Try and guess what my politics are. I bet you’d be surprised! Just because I call a certain politician out for being stupid, shouldn’t really be taken as any indication of my personal politics.
Joe Biden makes George Bush, Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin look like geniuses by comparison. He’s an embarassment.
Joe Biden may speak out of turn on occasion, but at least he is real and says what he thinks. Not like the snake-oil salesman he works for. Comparing Joe Biden’s limitations to Pelosi or Reid is like comparing a ripple to a tsunami.
People, people, please! Let’s leave the politics out of this discussion and keep it where it needs to stay - bars and gas station bathrooms.
I think your characterization of the VP’s remarks is inappropriate and goes beyond reporting, you should be working for Fox or The National Review.
Marc,
What makes it inappropriate? By nature, blogs go “beyond reporting.” Blogs are one part reporting and one part opinion. That’s just how it is. The VP did something stupid, and although I have my own politics that I think you’d be surprised at I’ve gotten sick of the Biden Blunders. He’s always saying inappropriate things.
Even if you are the staunchest liberal on the planet, you will be offended by this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG8RUP31oIY
It’s comments like that and so many others that make me cringe that he’s our VP. Out of so many people, why would Obama choose him? I’ll never understand it.
“Blogs are one part reporting and one part opinion. That’s just how it is.” Where exactly did you come up with such a self serving idea? Now you’re posting links to UTube, great. Fox News? More like Moonbattery.com. Time to write a brief note to management about Nick Chambers and his borderline wing nut articles as of late. I come here to read about new transportation tech, not Nick’s personal and arguably caustic opinions.
Yesterday there was a comment from someone that got deleted. That person was calling Nick out on the carpet. Looks like doing so here will get you deleted, so I don’t suspect my comment will last long.
Typical of a demon rat a big mouth. They engage mouth before thinking.
Nothing to do with politics. I voted for Obama. Biden is a moron, and I’m not saying that just because I envy his perfect teeth. This situation reminds me a lot of the plot of West Wing where the VP was a necessary evil and an unending pain.