You mind telling me why POTUS and co didn't have an event to mark GM's success?

[LeftyAndProud60]

And it should have been in Michigan.

[TygrBright]

1. Maybe because they've been accused of being wholly-owned subsidiaries of Corporate America...

...so many times and so loudly?

Doesn't matter, though. No matter WHAT POTUS and co do, they'll get plenty of shit for it from someone.

resignedly,
Bright

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. Their intervention in GM's collapse...

...and its resulting rebirth are part and parcel of the hated 'bailout'.

Liberals may love the jobs, but GM is still an Evil Corporation getting taxpayer's dollars.

Conservatives may like seeing a business receive billions, but hate the workers whose jobs were saved -- unless and until they work for no dollars an hour, and sing songs in praise of Sen. McConnell while they work.

And a lot -- not a majority, but a lot -- of the people whose jobs were saved don't care -- they'd rather be unemployed with a white man in the White House, than working with a colored President. Macomb County is the home of the original Reagan Democrats.

It's lose-lose. No good deed goes unpunished.

I'm not surprised there were no ceremonies.

[TexasProgresive]

3. Maybe b*sh

wouldn't turn loose of the banner.

[customerserviceguy]

4. What success?

They still owe billions and billions of dollars, and are still pretty much on life support. He's not going to get any closer to GM and Chrysler than he'd get to the bailed-out megabanks when they announce that they're profitable again, either.

[boppers]

5. What success? The IPO?

That's not a success. They opened at 33 bucks, and wound up still owing us 28 Billion dollars.

Actually being repaid would be a success.

[senseandsensibility]

6. They don't do politics , strategy, or any other unseemly

activities.:shrug: The repugs might not like it.

[craigmatic]

7. Because they're terrible at messaging and selling thir policies.

[grumgrum]

8. Repubs would get angry with them.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. heh. but also true.

[dionysus]

9. because you'd find a way to be upset no matter what he did?

:shrug:

[Pisces]

11. You must be left handed.

[DFab420]

16. I'm left handed

what does that mean?

Interesting aside. The word sinister was once a derogatory word for people who are left handed.

[old mark]

12. They seem to be completely incompetent in promoting anything

GOOD they actually do - I just read about the GM money being paid back, and wondered the same thing...it is just like the Obama tax cut - no one has ever heard of it.


mark

[FrenchieCat]

13. So are we......

So are we.

[Whisp]

14. that's our job. and we are doing pretty shitty with that around these parts, aren't we?

[Hawkowl]

15. Because they're tone deaf?

Incapable of learning? Too humble to win? Too ready to turn a silk purse into a sow's ear? Just plain fucking stupid?

[Lance_Boyle]

17. We already threw them at least a $10B party, without the party.

Fuck this sham IPO and the failure of a company ripping off taxpayers (again) through it.

[flpoljunkie]

18. The president will apparently speak about GM at 4:15PM.

davidcorndc Gibbs taking pre-victory lap on GM before Obama does the real thing at 4:15. #DCticker
30 minutes ago via TweetDeck

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23DCticker

[onenote]

19. Maybe because they felt it was appropriate to wait until the market closed first?