The writer is clueless. I am boycotting GM forever because of the corrupt bailout in which centuries of common law, contract law, and bankruptcy law were ignored to give GM assets to well-connected liberal groups, such as the UAW, at the expense of the bondholders who were legally and morally entitled to be paid far more than they received. This was a disgusting crime, and I find the idea of benefiting from such an act repulsive. All decent people should be outraged and should avoid all GM products forever.
As for the Volt in particular, it's such a terrible imitation of a real vehicle that in an honest world it would have stayed as a concept car until the engineers made it practical. None of this has anything to do with Obama personally. While I despise Obama and see signs of national socialism rather than his usual soviet socialism in his dealings with the auto industry, my objection to GM and to the Volt is moral rather than political.