Green Thursday: A Driving Decision

First it was his seven houses. Now, Sen. John McCain has to explain his fleet of 13 cars.
Newsweek published the report stating McCain and his wife, Cindy, own more than a dozen cars, including three electric bubble-shaped cars, called GEM's that are popular in retirement communities. Good so far on the Green Front.

But the ones getting him into trouble are the foreign-made cars. The McCains own a Honda sedan and a Volkswagen convertible, despite the candidate's claims to always buy American-made cars. (I have nothing against foreign cars, we own two, it's not telling the truth I'm against.)

McCain bragged that "I've bought American literally all my life and I'm proud." Bad lie on the Campaign Front.

That was after explaining that his daughter, Meghan, bought her own Toyota Prius. Good on the Green Front.

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger blasted McCain for not being truthful with voters. "When he's in the midwest, he tells voters he supports the industry. That's really a nice campaign line. But it turns out that John McCain wasn't being straight with the people of Detroit."

Gettelfinger cast McCain as an enemy of auto workers for supporting trade deals that he said would ship jobs overseas. "We need a president who's committed to rebuilding the auto industry in America, not a president who buys foreign cars and then falsifies the truth when he thinks auto workers aren't watching." Ouch!

The magazine reported that the only car in McCain's name is a Cadillac. The others are in Cindy McCain's name. Another Japanese car -- a Lexus that Cindy McCain drives with the plates 'Ms BUD' -- is registered to the beer distribution company that she heads.

The Obamas own a single car -a 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid. Campaign and Green Good.

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