Bush nearly blew himself up at the WH

[tocqueville]

Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President

The 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?"

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

mmm, maybe Dubya was trying to join the terrorist business, what else is left ? or was it Cheney that told him "err Mr President, there is a cord lying there..."

[DesertRat]

1. So close...

there's a discussion about it here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=600520

[uppityperson]

2. Mulally is lucky he didn't get shot by SS. Luck all around.

[malaise]

3. It would have been quite a tragedy to lose the White House

in that manner

[wicket]

4. Just wow

:popcorn: :wow:

[earth mom]

5. And this is the same guy who has his finger next to the nuke button...

:nuke:

:scared:

[originalpckelly]

6. "I'm Brian Williams, join me tonight from a bomb shelter to report on the President's...

launching of an accidental nukular war, remember that's on what's left of your local NBC affiliate."

[liberal renegade]

7. hydrogen bomb......

lucky bastard......

[jakem]

8. And why is Ford making a hydrogen tank that can take an electrical plug??

I am confused.

They need to dumb down their designs to the level of a president apparently.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Better luck next time? nt