You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Home Front: Politix
Kerry Says His ’Family’ Owns SUV, Not He
2004-04-23
EFL - ?You can’t make this up.
Hat tip -> Drudge (Original source: The Guardian)
Does John Kerry, who supports higher automobile fuel economy standards, own a gas-guzzling SUV? He does, but says it belongs to the family, not to him.
Did Bill Clinton die? Kerry seems to be channeling Bill "it depends on what the meaning of ’is’ is" Clinton.
Or Al Sharpton, whose suits are owned by his corporation...
During a conference call Thursday with reporters to discuss his upcoming jobs tour through West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, the Democratic presidential candidate was asked whether he owned a Chevrolet Suburban. ``I don’t own an SUV,’’ said Kerry, who supports increasing existing fuel economy standards to 36 miles per gallon by 2015 in order to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil supplies. Kerry also has made rising gasoline prices an issue in the campaign against President Bush. In Houston on Thursday, Kerry said the president broke a 2000 campaign pledge to ``jawbone’’ oil-producing nations by pressuring them to increase their output.
Of course Sept 11th never happened.....
Kerry thought for a second when asked whether his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, had a Suburban at their Ketchum, Idaho, home. Kerry said he owns and drives a Dodge 600 and recently bought a Chrysler 300M. He said his wife owns the Chevrolet SUV. ``The family has it. I don’t have it,’’ he said.
Should be easy to verify - who is it registered to?
Posted by:CrazyFool

#16  I just have to add this:

Chevy Suburbans are currently made in Janesville Wisconsin. Depending on the vintage, the 'family owned' vehicle could have been manufactured in Silao Mexico.

All Chrysler 300Ms are manufactured in Bramalea, Ontario, CANADA.
Posted by: john   2004-04-23 11:34:23 PM  

#15  I guess the whole man-separate-from-his-family angle has been played already. So I'm going to try figure out his statement regarding cars built by the UAW in Michigan.

Is he intending to leave out cars built in Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama and South Carolina? How about Illinois? Or did he just happen to be in Michigan at the time?
Posted by: eLarson   2004-04-23 8:07:06 PM  

#14  

another from DRUDGE :


Here is another non-Kerry Kerry SUV

hidden partially. . . .he he he

Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-23 6:31:45 PM  

#13  Kerry Says His ’Family’ Owns SUV, Not He

"Quick Theresa, put it in YOUR garage, I can't be seen driving this. FOX News has long range cameras on the property here. . ."
Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-23 5:38:05 PM  

#12  Surely you left off the "Scrappleface" tag? No? The Onion?

Unbelievable.
Posted by: VAMark   2004-04-23 5:35:50 PM  

#11  What's up with the bald dude flashing Kerry?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-04-23 4:42:12 PM  

#10  

Hey, Is anybody watching me get out of this?

Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-23 3:32:19 PM  

#9  Kerry is such a smarmy piece of crap. I'll be glad when he fades into obscurity with his boy Dukakis.
Posted by: Chris W.   2004-04-23 3:23:22 PM  

#8  "I swear I never had sex with that woman SUV."
Posted by: JFM   2004-04-23 3:01:45 PM  

#7  Stillwondering?

'04 Chrysler 300 M Special (would ketchup girl take it any other way?)

EPA MPG 18/27

'04 Chevy Trailblazer

EPA MPG 16/21
Posted by: TomAnon   2004-04-23 1:58:40 PM  

#6  "Kerry said he owns and drives a Dodge 600"

Hold on a second here.... I believe the Dodge 600 was made back in the early to mid eighties. A really dark time for th US auto industry. A real POS. I guarantee that if "he owns and drives a Dodge 600" is guzzles more gas than a new Chevy Suburban and produces ten times the pollution of a Chevy Suburban.
Posted by: TomAnon   2004-04-23 1:43:55 PM  

#5  Kerry drop out of the race? Nah, ain't gonna happen.

"JFK" is certainly starting to look like a complete fool, but he's far from being in enough trouble yet to cause any "dump Kerry" movement to prevail.

I'm betting he's in it til the end.
Posted by: Dave D.   2004-04-23 1:16:42 PM  

#4  List of US Made Cars

Note on the above list from the UAW, there is an asterisk by the name "Chevrolet Suburban". This means it may or may not have been made in the US.

He needs to provide documentation to be consistent on this one.
Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-23 12:55:33 PM  

#3  What can you expect from a swiss educated son of a foreign service officer?

Anyone got a dictionary? Look up "stiff" and see if theres a picture of John 'F'ing' Kerry there.

Kids it's time to start the Rantburg "Kerry Goes Torricelli" Pool:


1) Date that Kerry drops out of the race.
2) Pathetic excuse given for leaving his party in a lurch.

Send your 2 dollars for each entry to Freds Paypal account. Winnings to go to Lt. Smash at "spirit of america".

My entry is :
1) June 1st
2) "Unforseen health issue"
Posted by: Frank Martin   2004-04-23 12:53:46 PM  

#2  Kerry's nowhere in the class of Al Sharpton. Everything the 'Rev' has, including his suits, is owned by one group or another.
Posted by: Pappy   2004-04-23 12:15:34 PM  

#1  My wife is the foreign born communist, not me!
Posted by: Lou   2004-04-23 12:10:04 PM  

00:00