As I see it there are rights and wrongs on both sides of that fence. Yah the Prez should be more pro-american auto industry but some of what his advisors say is spot on. Amerian auto makers always has their head in the sand and it is not so much as building what the American people want it is building something that WORKS .. good quality, high value for the money and fuel efficient. They have never been very good at any of that .. and some of it can be laid directly at the CEOs feet and some of it can be laid driectly at the feet of the friggin unions ...
I think he's trying to say that in every market, a domestic manufacturer has a version that is at or near the head of the pack, or at least at or near the equivalent foreign counterpart.