Shucky Darns.. Just One Spark Away From President Pelosi !!!

[WillyT]

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Business Insider

Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President

The Detroit News

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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?"

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

If he just hadn't followed those damned protocols...

:evilgrin:

[yourout]

1. The problem is it would have Martyred him to a degree.

I don't want him Martyred.....I want him Incarcerated.

[mike_c]

4. I'd settle for incinerated....

:nuke:

[Monkeyman]

2. One Problem President Cheney

[WillyT]

5. Um... Take A Look At That Bald Guy In The Background...

Woulda been a twofer I tell ya!!!

:shrug:

[mike_c]

7. he was well within the blast zone, right beside his puppet boosh....

Ka-boom! :nuke:

[Monkeyman]

8. Hard To Kill A Robot

[mike_c]

11. true enough-- and in Cheney's case I believe a wooden stake is necessary...

...in any event.

[sutz12]

3. Olbermann debunked this one, big time...

Bush never got close to having the power cord and sticking it in the "hydrogen input." Mullaly probably knows less about the car that Chimpy.

From an Engineering standpoint, if it was that easy to blow the vehicle up, even Detroit wouldn't build it.

[WillyT]

10. KillJoy...

:P

[karlrschneider]

6. Funny story but it never happened. Olbermann covered it tonight.

Had video of the whole thing...Mulally made it all up.

[mike_c]

9. but a guy can dream, can't he...?

:rofl:

[illinoisprogressive]

12. That crossed my mind, too.

[Cleita]

13. Hmmm. I'm glad it didn't happen. Too easy.

I want him and Cheney to spend months in courts, on trial for all their criminal acts, which they will have to admit to under oath.

[Orrex]

14. The story I got...

Was that Bush knew that it was a hybrid car, and the photo shows him trying to siphon electricity out of the tank.