Bush almost blows himself (and Cheney) up

[rolfboy]

Source: Huffington Post, Detroit News

Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.

Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Ford wanted to give the Commander-in-Chief an actual demonstration of the innovative vehicle, so the automaker arranged for an electrical outlet to be installed on the South Lawn and ran a charging cord to the hybrid. However, as Mulally followed Bush out to the car, he noticed someone had left the cord lying at the rear of the vehicle, near the fuel tank.

"I just thought, 'Oh my goodness!' So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front," Mulally said. "I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen This is all off the record, right?"



Read more: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/AUTO01/704070338/1148

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We could've had Pelosi for Prez sooner than any of us anticipated!

I'll never buy a Ford again :)))

robert

[youngdem]

1. Good design.

All cars should be prone to hyper-explosiveness if the owner accidentally approaches the wrong filling door with the wrong cable.

Can someone tell my why Ford is in the shitter again?

[jobycom]

3. LOL! Yeah, I wondered that, too. Hope they change THAT design before market.

:rofl:

[JPZenger]

4. Great Photo on this Link

http://www.alfrankenweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35381

[Lisa]

13. the perfect job for Bush once he leaves office -- consumer safety tester

If a company needs to come up with an "idiot-proof" design that couldn't possibly hurt anyone no matter how inept or klutzy the operator, they could use Dubya as a guinea-pig. If he can't screw it up somehow (pretzel, Segway, hydrogen-powered car), it must be safe!

[rcdean]

2. Where's the news? Bush blows himself all the time.

Oh, well, maybe blowing Cheney would be news...
:)

[AnneD]

5. If it weren't for

bad luck I'd have no luck at all. I thought this was an Onion headline.

[EFerrari]

6. The Leader of the Western World needs a babysitter.

Ah, geeze.

:(

[BeFree]

7. Close, too close

We almost lost our fearfull leaders.

Lets hope bush and cheney never go hunting together.

[ContraBass Black]

8. This is bullshit like the neutron bomb story. Why does it keep coming back today?

[JackRiddler]

14. Why is it bullshit?

Did the Detroit News make it up? Is the Ford CEO lying?

[Orsino]

9. Typical defeatist attitude.

The hydrogen would have greeted the electricity as a liberator! Mulally wouldn't give the President's plan a chance to work!

[Cabcere]

20. LOL!

:spray: You owe me a new keyboard. That was brilliant! :hi: :rofl:

[GreenTea]

10. Damn, why is it always 'almost"?

[dysfunctional press]

11. i didn't even know that he was double-jointed...

:evilgrin:

[Catherine Vincent]

16. LOL!

:spank:

[Javaman]

12. Is it just me or has it finally come to this. the WH is one step away from being

an episode of Jackass.

[Catherine Vincent]

15. I read about that over the weekend.

And I felt guilty for smiling about it, though it would have been horrible if he did blow up himself and everyone near him. I was having a conversation with a friend today and he started in about how Bush almost blew up his cabinet or something like that. It was quite funny when he was telling the story.

[meldroc]

17. Sigh... That Ford executive was far too quick on his feet.

It's an imperfect world...

[greenbriar]

18. wish he had let the dufus do his thing

gawd what a dumbazz

[Jim Warren]

19. Haha, from the Rude Pundit

It's hard to suss out the multiple layers of irony in the fact that President George W. Bush almost car bombed himself, Dick Cheney, and (still ironic, but for another reason) Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford. See, Bush was about to plug an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of a hybrid auto when Mulally dodged in front of the Commander-in-Chief to stop him from causing the car to explode, the searing, sharp metal and large flames immediately tearing the Leader of the Free World and the Vice-Leader into barbecued chunks and bits. Let's see which way we could go: Bush fucking up on how the whole thing works and causing shit to blow up? Two oil guys being taken out by a car that might mark the beginning of the end of their industry? This is not to mention that a pretty large part of the White House would have been destroyed. And the crater in the lawn. Yep, endless symbolism, even in the fact that a private citizen stopped Bush from wreaking death and destruction at the nation's home.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/