Wonkette
America, meet your new presidential limousine, this scary-ass legoland 100-foot-long bumper boat. It is a General Motors Cadillac!
The vehicle, referred to by the Secret Service as “the beast,” will reportedly feature heavy armor that is at least 5 inches thick and comes complete with run-flat tires, bulletproof glass and a completely sealed interior to ward off a chemical attack, among many other high-tech security features.
That’s swell and all, but it better come with a Prius or something in the trunk, so President Obama can drive home after this monstrosity breaks down, probably somewhere on Pennsylvania Avenue, next Tuesday.
As weird as it sounds to actually buy a new Cadillac, Barack Obama isn’t really making a bold move to symbolically save the Detroit car industry. Presidential limos are always Caddies, and have been since Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration.
Still, what a great chance to market your gas-guzzling faux-luxury brand. America’s handsome young president rolls in a new Cadillac! You just know the whole Cadillac website would be all about the Obama limo, right? Right? Wait, there’s nothing? Nope. Because GM is all about the Fail.
Speaking of Detroit, Obama’s shitty old Chrysler is being sold on eBay. Buy It Now, for just $1 million dollars. What a steal.
Cadillac Unveils Images of New Presidential Limo [Fox News]
Cadillac Limo to drive Obama in style [Detroit Free Press]
Those windows are solar panels, right?
The nation is crying out for spinning rims, with diamond-encrusted presidential seals on them.
I’m so glad I am not the president, and can buy German cars. So much less geezerish than that Seinfeld Caddy.
How long before the FReeptards crack lame jokes about bling and Escalades?
Please tell me it has spinners.
I don’t have my glasses on, but that doesn’t look like a unicorn at all.
Although I can’t wait to see the hydraulics on that baby.
President Beeblebrox: Who you callin a freeptard?
bhosp
Mahousu
WagTehGod
President Beeblebrox: You’re outnumbered
At this rate, President Malia will have her very own Death Star.
bhosp: Spinnas, ftw.
bhosp: Took until the second comment for the spinners call-out. I was gonna go for curb feelers, but then I’m old school like that.
Well at least it looks like those 2.5, um, 3, um, 4 million green collar jobs won’t be created designing Obama’s ride.
I don’t get it. He could’ve just got an Escalade.
Nice. He pimped his ride. I am however a little disappointed it doesn’t sprout wings and mini-rocket boosters. I guess he’s got seven years to work on that.
Kennedy was assassinated in a Lincoln.
if the interior is completely sealed, how does it get air?
My Cadillac killin’ em, I’m Sprewell wheelin’ em
If they less than ten G’s, then the Boss ain’t feelin’ em
I’m keepin’ it real in the Caddy Deville
Turning corners wood wheel, with the Big Daddy grill
Looking like I’m worth a mil, backin’ out the garage
Rollin’ hard, for the competition on the ‘vard
comes with Secret Service TrunkMonkey? http://www.trunkmonkey.com/content/view/28/1/
It could use some flames on the side. Stickers, not the real thing. Cactus on the antenna? How is it in snow?
cyskokid: Thanks, that made me laugh, “out loud”.
pepe: what if Hopey farts?
mylesfromnowhere: … …
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shit! someone get the secret service on the line, renegade’s in trouble! DO IT NOW!
(cue scary music from 24)
11:34:21 … 11:34:22 … 11:34:23 … 11:34:24 …
cyskokid: And Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater. Oooooh!
If you can’t hear the bass from the stereo a block away it’s all been a waste of money.
Ha ha! Fox News calls it “sleek”. Like Karl Rove!
As an aside, neither story notes that among the limo’s features will be a couple
of pints of Barry’s own blood in the glove box. Seriously.
Where the fuck are the child safety seats?
cyskokid: Yes, but by who?
have Truck Nutz really not been mentioned yet?
They need to replace the flag finials with Jack-In-The-Box antenna balls.
Pop Socket: Niiice. And how about a vinyl top. Wire wheels. Oh, and the cool spare tire thing on the back. Sweeet.
A motor home would have been a better choice. You’ve got a kitchen for munchies, a shitter, stand-up room. Plus with the slide-out part of it it’s freakier than a low-rider. He’s just going to use it for short hops anyway. I give you:
http://www.marathoncoach.com/images2/1123%20em%20back%20to%20front.jpg
turboslut: Truck Nutz … yw
Purple low-rider lights and a steering knob on the wheel — it has to be 25 years since I’ve seen a steering knob, so it’s time they came back. A horn that broadcasts a cumbia arrangement of “Michelle, ma belle” completes the kit. Oh, and when the glass one-way rises between Barry and his driver, it has “Yes, I Can” etched on it.
Dildo Baggins: Ha! Seinfeld.
Pop Socket: Curb feelers? I want to see those razor sharp hubcap thingees that jab tires and passersby like in the car race in Grease.
I can’t believe Cadillac hasn’t put it on their website. I guess they’re enjoying the Fail as long as they’re still getting paid. Beyond stupid.
DangerousLiberal: that cool spare tire thing is called a Continental Kit. Kennedy’s Continental rolled sans the kit since Jackie was known to go trunk surfing unannounced and the kit would have been pretty hazardous.
Can the Blingee people make a Pimp My Presidential Limo game for us?
Jukesgrrl: Forget about the Blingee people; I want an [b]EcoDriving[/b] limo simulator. With spinners. Also.
As I was motavatin over the hill, I saw 44 in his Coupe de Ville.
Bumper sticker: “My other car is
MOTHERFUCKIN’ AIR FORCE ONE!!!!!!”
Kennedy’s Lincoln convertible wasn’t his ‘official’ limousine, it was a parade car. I didn’t know all prexies had Caddies since Wilson, however. Interesting (to a car buff), if true.
Ah a closer reading: The image of an American president greeting crowds from a Cadillac limousine dates to President Woodrow Wilson and the early days of the automobile…
Nowhere does it explicitly state or even imply that every presidential limo since Wilson has been a Cadillac. Just says that the incidence of Caddies-as-prexy-limos goes back that far.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5127174/inside-the-rocket+proof-obamamobile
Doesn’t show teh Truck Nutz or the Hennessy.
lawrenceofthedesert: Most people would’ve just gone for the lazy “playing reggaton” reference, but you went all out for the cumbia reference. Well played, Lawrence. Well played.
Oh and fuck this Caddy shit, Obama needs the Batmobile… with whistle tips.
Who would have thought it would be a Cadillac? GEE.
That pic you always use says Superman, but the car is pure Batman.
lawrenceofthedesert: Sammy sez “No” to steering knobs!
Appropriately, “The One” rides in the Beast, and he that has wisdom count the number of the Beast that is visible on the Hood, for it is the number of The One, and his number is 666.
Darehead: Furthermore on the front of the Beast there are 3 rows of squares, 6 squares each. 666.
Far be it from me to dicker over girth. But I heard the Unicorn limo doors are at least 18″ thick and can withstand a mortar attack. Do you really want me to look up 18 inches on the Obama limo on Google? I don’t have the time. Make someone else.
I love how in the pic the the thing is such a behemoth that one of the front wheels is on the grass instead of the pavement. You can’t just dock a Detroit land yacht like that in any harbor. And it’s not just granny who can’t park her Caddy straight. Also.
I found this tidbit on teh interwebz about black folks and Caddies. How very weird.http://www.speedace.info/automotive_directory/cadillac.htm
“1932- The year it could have ended
In 1932, after Cadillac suffered from record low sales and charges of discrimination against black customers, Alfred Sloan created a committee to consider the discontinuation of the Cadillac line. At a fateful board meeting, Cadillac president Nicholas Dreystadt heard that legendary boxer Joe Louis could not go into a dealership to buy a car, because he was black, and resorted to having a white friend make the purchase for him. Dreystadt gave the GM Board of Directors a 10 minute speech in which he advocated advertising to black consumers so as to increase sales. The Board agreed to give Dreystadt 18 months to produce results. By 1934, Cadillac had regained profitability. It is significant to note that after this decision, Cadillac was the only American automobile manufacturer to remain profitable during the Great Depression. By 1940, Cadillac sales had risen 1000% compared to 1934, thus saving Cadillac from extinction.”
Vanity Smurf: So true. And such as.
Keram2: I have deer whistles on my Sentra, dude. They are so high pitched that I can’t hear them, but they’re supposed to scare dogs and deer. So far, I have not had any altercations with domesticated animals and wildlife. Maybe they work? I say yes.
turboslut: Bulletproof Truck Nutz!
Making the Obamamobile would be a cool challenge for an episode of Top Gear.
Pimpin’.
They never tell you about the important stuff in the description. Is the Sound System Xtreme? Is the ride pimping? Wonketeers want to know!
I still think that Obama’s limo should have looked like this:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_71968-Cadillac-Fleetwood-1977.html
or this:
http://classiccars.com/Uploads/Classifieds/158579.jpg
http://classiccars.com/Uploads/Classifieds/158585.jpg
Or if they really want to strike fear into the hearts of George Will and the rest, this:
http://www.chinacarforums.com/forum/showpost.php?p=25243&postcount=15
http://picture.auto.sohu.com/@category_c58280_p1.html
or this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/world_the_zil_limousine0_fit_for_a_president/html/2.stm
Drove her to the pad and I’m coasting
Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion
I was glad everything had worked out
Dropped her ass off, then I chirped out
Today was like one of those fly dreams
Didn’t even see a berry flashing those high beams
No helicopter looking for a murder
Two in the morning got the Fatburger
Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
And it read Obama’s a pimp
Drunk as hell but no throwing up
Half way home and my pager still blowing up
Today I didn’t even have to use my A.K.
I got to say it was a good day.
Now this is what I’m talking about:
Myspace Glitter Graphics
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/81209203-Obama-s-Pimped-Out-Caddie
It’s a “donk” for POTUS Fo’tee Fo!
Balls to you, daddy, she ain’t never coming back
…I’m sure with a name like “the Beast” all those sweaty, bible thumping, inbreds who think Barry is the Anti-Christ will feel perfectly at rest. Why don’t they just have Barry sworn in with “666″ tattooed across his forehead!
Why didn’t he get the Wingnut Plow option?
What a shamefully ostentatious display to make during times as difficult as these. Next thing you’ll tell me is that he’s going to insist on living in some gigantic drafty 19th century mansion and having his own plane.
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/81209203-Obama-s-Pimped-Out-Caddie
Well, now we know where the rest of the bailout’s going. That thing looks like it gets -20 miles per gallon.
What can be more presidential than a Big Boy? Good for going tear-ass through the Bible belt.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=191464&nseq=25
pepe: Who needs air? Not Indonesianians!
Needs JATO.
This is just what dave chappelle said would happen!
WagTehGod: It’s the Cadillac of unicorns.
Not sure I’d call it “The Beast”. How about “ugly as shit”.
Looks like the “Family Truckster” from National Lampoon’s Vacation.
But can it park itself? Or did GM forget to give Barry this valuable new feature?
Here you go - the design inspiration for this Obama’s sleek new Detroit beauty:
http://www.ajga.org/newsletter/theajgalink/8-5-05/images/Truckster.jpg
They don’t always have a Caddy. Taft need a semi to haul his fat ass around.
They see me rollin’
They hatin’
Don’t look at all like the Caddies the “Daddies” used to cruise on the OLD Westside of Manhattan. They were always orange, green or red, with an appropriately clashing door-to-door shag.
This one looks kinda… I don’t know… uppity.
jimmy jazz indeed.
Needs more Killdozer.
I have it in good authority that under the hood, you will
find the Little Engine That Could. And it runs on Hope!
YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN…choo! choo!
Just think: Someday, this limo will will sit in the Henry Ford Museum with all of the other historical automobiles. It will be labeled “The last Cadillac ever sold.”
I drive a Honda Fit because I’m a hobo and socialist Canadian besides. But the Caddy STS is the sweetest, sweetest ride I can remember. East coast Yankee liberals can lease their overpriced BMWs, but for my money, Cadillac offers unbelievable value. Just my little plug.
The rest of GM, on the other hand….
NewAlgier:
I think the CTS is currently GM’s best vehicle.
This is sure as hell going to alienate the coloreds.
The least they could have done was added the gold package and some white walls.
GM? I hope they bought the extended warranty.
Can I play as Barry in Grand Theft Limo?
Pickem up, setem up, watch it all go down
Oh yeah
Driving in my cadillac rock box
Stickem up, getem up, drop it and throw down
Oh yeah
Hangin in my cadillac rock box
Pickem up, setem up, watch it all go down
Oh yeah
Driving in my cadillac rock box
Fillem up, shootem, sit before you fall down
Oh yeah
Bury me in my cadillac rock box
lumpenprole: Yes, The Stig taking a fast lap on their test track in this beast would be pretty cool. With Jeremy, the Hamster, Captain Slow and their immediate families, and several open magnums of Dom in the passenger compartment.
Whoa! Is that the Blackmobile?
If this were a real Detroit Caddy, it would have a fucking crown in the back, a gun under the seat and some purple lights underneath. God I miss Detroit.
Mojopo: Intro to Black American History: Keeping Amerikka Kool Long Past Her Prime
And there’s a video screen in the back, with a full library of “Girls Gone Wild” DVDs, and the complete works of Jenna Jameson.
joementum: Is that showing a remake of “Driving Miss Daisy”?
The Secret Service says that the limo will be parked always facing Mecca, Allah willing.
As all things American go-christ, it’s just SO ugly.
Vipper of Vipp: I’m glad someone else noticed that. Keeping your own blood stashed in your car is amazing. You can drop a bomb on that thing* and Barry will rise like a phoenix from its ashes.
*but don’t.
See, it’s already starting: they parked that Caddy on the *lawn*.
one step closer to the Maibatsu Monstrosity!
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/gtawiki/images//2/22/MonstrosityUS.jpg
also.
I cannot fackin’ believe nobody name-checked the coolest bladdy Caddytrack ever written - by two blokes from West London, Messrs. Strummer and Jones.
Driiiiiiiive!!!
Driiiiiiiive!!!
My baby drove up in a brand new Cadillac
Yes she did!
My baby drove up in a brand new Cadillac
She said, hey, come here, daddy!
I ain’t never comin back!
Baby, baby, wont you hear my plea?
Cmon, sugar, just come on back to me
She said, balls to you, big daddy.
She ain’t never coming back!
Baby, baby, wont you hear my plea?
Oh c’mon, just hear my plea
She said, balls to you, daddy
She ain.t coming back to me
My baby drove up in a brand-new Cadillac
I said, “Jesus Christ! Where’d you get that Cadillac?”
She said, balls to you, daddy.
She ain’t never coming back!
-The Clash
Blingeed:
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/81248591-Obama-Pimp-RIde
agitpropster: Great cover, but the Clash did not write “Brand New Cadillac.” Check it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_New_Cadillac
It was apparently one of the first British rock’n'roll records, from 1958, by Vince Taylor.
Come on…seriously, it should be Pink, with those Super Fly headlights.
Now that’s a bad ride..
Chet Kincaid: Chet - I am truly mortified. Joe was a good friend (he LOVED Austin) and I still meet with some of the old crew for a few fizzies down the Blind Beggar in Whitechapel when I’m in town. Thanks for the correction…and with as many copies of London Calling as I’ve bought over the years, there’s just no excuse. Cheers. ; (
Keram2: “..and whistle tips”
Transportation Secretary = Bubb Rubb & Lil Sis
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/154/
lawrenceofthedesert: “[A]nd when the glass one-way rises between Barry and his driver, it has “Yes, I Can” etched on it.” In Old English letters.
peorgietirebiter: Damn. I learn more here than I did getting my pee haitch dee. Big ups.
joementum: I’m thinking gin and juice. Laaaid back.