Obama: Automakers inspire in face of 'headwinds'

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JIM KUHNHENN

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says recent economic "headwinds" at home resulted from high gasoline prices, the Japanese earthquake and Europe's financial crisis.

As inspiration for a broader recovery, he's citing the American auto industry's resurgence.

"We're a people who don't give up, who do big things, who shape our own destiny," the president said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday.

The message, taped Friday during Obama's visit to a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, was hardly different than the remarks he offered to about 350 Chrysler workers.


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President Barack Obama speaks at Chrysler Group's Toledo Assembly complex in front of a Jeep Wrangler, Friday, June 3, 2011, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

[Citizen Worker]

1. All the inspiration in the world won't increase auto production one whit. It's going to take jobs

and disposable income and I just don't see that happening any time soon.

[Kurmudgeon]

2. I'm sure right wing Oil Corps. wouldn't want that to happen.

[Citizen Worker]

3. Oil is fungible and as such can be sold anywhere around the globe. There are more than a billion

oil thirsty consumers in China.

[MrTriumph]

4. The pres. is ridiculous. Give others a bailout and they will be just as "inspiring".

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[Corruption Winz]

5. You know.... people need to stop saying America does big things..

until America does something big and legitimately great on a current or recent level. A company being given money they don't truly deserve showing some signs of life isn't exactly the most impressive thing I've ever heard of. Not even out of the things I've read today.

[JJW]

6. During campaign he promised to....

renegotiate NAFTA.