Jeep workers protest when Obama underestimates Wrangler
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/06/obama-gaffe-chrysler-jeep-wrangler-uaw-toledo-economy-jobs/1?csp=34President Obama learned an important political lesson today: Don't ever go to a Chrysler Group plant that makes Jeeps and imply that there is someplace that a Wrangler can't go.
To the men and women who make them, Wranglers are tough enough to roll through cities, highways, trails, up the faces of sheer cliffs or through walls. Moon craters? Shift into four-wheel low.
Obama went to the Jeep plant in Toledo to take credit for his administration's role in saving Chrysler and turning around the auto industry, as you can see from the video clip above. He focused on trying to explain Friday's disappointing jobs report. But when he made the analogy about the bumps along the way to recovery being a path so tortuous that even a Wrangler can't get through, he got a hearty round of objections. Wrangler is, of course, Jeep's little go-anywhere, do-anything vehicle, the closest descendant to the hardy vehicle that helped win World War II.
Being a seasoned politician, however, he was quick to recover and call out his own gaffe. "A Wrangler can go over anything, huh?" he said, getting a few laughs.
