Are Hummer Owners Idiots?

SF Chronicle ^ | 1/15/03 | By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

[randita]

Just in time for America's latest murderous war for oil, just in time to be reminded of exactly why our foreign policy is so horribly mangled and debilitating and Saudi enslaved and terrorist ready ...

Just in time to crush a few thousand smaller cars and kill a bunch of pedestrians and poison the environment and still be able to traverse six feet of standing floodwater in order to make it in time for Timmy's soccer game, it's the rollout of the new Hummer H2, the biggest joke of the entire SUV world, representing, well, just exactly everything that's wrong with America's view of the world.

[randita]

At first, I thought this was a hilarious parody piece, but it's for real!

As reported in a superlative Washington Monthly article that quotes extensively from Bradsher's book, SUV owners tend to be, in part, more selfish, self-centered, narcissistic, insecure and vain than their car-driving brethren. Oh yes they do. And the research backs it up.

They are frequently "nervous about their marriages and uncomfortable about parenthood. They often lack confidence in their driving skills. Above all, they are apt to be self-centered and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbors and communities. They are more restless, more sybaritic and less social than most Americans are."

And if it was reported in the Washington Monthly, it must be true!

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[Tijeras_Slim]

to glow-in-the-dark vibrators that can run off the power in your phone line

Who would'a thunk it?

[cdefreese]

My wife and I have decided that in about a year when our car is paid off, we will look into getting one of the Hummer H2s. Personally I like the H1s better, but the H2s do have a sporty look to them.

People like this just make me laugh. This is exactly what the world needs: more comedy.

[philman_36]

Now you've done it, my eyes are bleeding from the reading.
Covet not thy neighbors Hummer...covet not thy neighbors Hummer

[Arkie2]

This spew makes me want to run out and buy an H2! Unfortunately we just bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee. Oh well, I'll just have to make do with the second best 4 wheel drive vehicle on earth!

[Blood of Tyrants]

What is worse is that there are MANY people out there who believe this hors$hit!

[End Times Sentinel]

Isn't there enough evidence of these land tanks' utter uselessness and danger and cultural detriment? How much proof do we need? And aren't we ready for some sort of momentous change?

Admittedly, I only skimmed the article, but why are you mean, brutish conservatives making this person by an H2?

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[SBprone]

Yes they're idiots.

But unlike the author of this rant they're happy idiots!

[MadIvan]

My wife and I have decided that in about a year when our car is paid off, we will look into getting one of the Hummer H2s. Personally I like the H1s better, but the H2s do have a sporty look to them.

I've thought for a while that if I lived in America, that I would buy a Cadillac SUV. The Hummer sounds even better.

I would buy it for the comfort, the security in terms of bad weather driving, and the "in your face" statement it makes to whingeing lefties in their Volvos.

Regards, Ivan

[dighton]

"I am a typical SF liberal jackass no one listens to."

[netmilsmom]

Anyone who feels that tinge of guilt about owning a Hummer, H2 or any SUV for that matter can pass them off to me. Please E-Mail me privately. I have no heat in my 9 year old mini-van and my babies are freezing. We will take your guilt away and be warm. (It is 14 degrees right now and my girls had to get in the car for the ride to school!).

[Chancellor Palpatine]

As a big sedan driver and devotee, I'll take the sedan any day over an SUV. The drive like, well, trucks over the open road - I prefer a smoother ride.

[MadIvan]

As the SUV has become an object of hatred and derision of the Left, my enjoyment of one would be that much greater. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[William McKinley]

The liberal ones are.

[strela]

If there were definitions in the dictionary for "class warfare" and "envy," the author of this pathetic little rant would finally get his or her picture in print.

[from occupied ga]

DARN, If they weren't so expensive I'd go out and get one today! This is the sort of thing that makes you realize just what idiotic losers

1. Work for newspapers
2. live on the left coast
3. liberals are

[krodriguesdc]

hey I'd love to own a Hummer!

go ahead call me an idiot!

[Hatteras]

"I prefer a smoother ride."

You haven't driven some of these large SUVs lately, have you?

[mg39]

Hummers get 12-15 miles per gallon. That's incredibly wasteful -- the exact opposite of what being a conservative is all about.