CEO SAVES BUSH FROM SELF-IMMOLATION

[kpete]

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?"


more -plus picture -at:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/AUTO01/704070338/1148

[shadowknows69]

1. Anything I could say

would only get me a visit from Agent Mike. I plead the fifth.

[mconvente]

8. Hi Agent Mike!

:hi: lol - for his impending visit

[Skidmore]

2. He'll either get

the Medal of Freedom or an ambassadorship in the near future.

[Joanne98]

3. K&R!

[diane in sf]

4. We wouldn't want to set the progress of hydrogen cars back.

[shain from kane]

5. "You've been living like a little boy

in the middle of your little world.
and your mind
your tiny mind
you know you've really been so blind.
Now's your time burn your mind
you're falling far too far behind."

[rasputin1952]

6. These things just write themselves...

Kind of nice to know that someone out there was thinking...you know it was't bush...:eyes:

[Jack Rabbit]

9. True, but that it was an auto corp CEO is just as surprising

That aren't known for sound decisions, either.

[rasputin1952]

12. LOL...That's what makes it even more interesting...

:P

[GainesT1958]

7. Hmmm...maybe THAT"S why hydrogen vehicles...

Haven't gotten closer to production status!

They haven't "dumbed down" the re-charging system yet!:eyes:

B-)

[Hekate]

10. OH yeah, I'm giving this a Rec. You can't make this stuff up...

:wow: There's nothing I can say that wouldn't be actionable.
Hi, Agent Mike! :hi:

Hekate

[yellowcanine]

11. I don't get it. How could an electrical cord get plugged into a H tank?

Maybe Mulally is a bit technology challenged as well? That said, Bush is an idiot if he picked up a cord and was going to plug it in somewhere without knowing anything about the technology.

[grannylib]

14. "Bush is an idiot IF...?" *lol* There're no ifs, ands or buts about it...Bush is an

idiot, regardless. Always has been, always will be.

[mockmonkey]

15. Maybe,

what he is saying is that he didn't want President Numb-nuts looking foolish by fumbling around the H tank with the electrical cord where it doesn't connect. Because, Ford couldn't advertise that even a "monkey" can operate their Hydrogen/Electric Hybrid with ease.

[hootinholler]

13. I would have walked slower!

No sense in his ignorance taking me out too.

:evilgrin:

-Hoot

[TahitiNut]

19. Yep. I'd be willing to take a few 2nd and 3rd degree burns "for the team."

Ubetcha. :evilgrin:

[symbolman]

16. I would have

just stood on the cord :)

[smoogatz]

17. No surprise--this is the guy who invaded Iraq because of 9/11, after all.

Breaking: Bush Fails To Find Own Ass With Both Hands, Flashlight

[eShirl]

18. I got nothin'.

[TahitiNut]

20. I wonder how many taxpayer dollars it cost to have the White House idiot-proofed.

He's sure the idiot to prove it.

Maybe if some patriot were to put a label of "Monica" over an electrical outlet we'd be free of that Dumyafuck.

[morningglory]

21. So...they've designed a car that a child could mess up and immolate

his fool self? Haven't they heard of child-proof thingies? Put a moran-child, monkey-brained idiot-IQ person near something like that and what do you expect?

[aquart]

22. We were that close.

To having President Cheney.

[Ghost in the Machine]

23. he should have just let nature take it's course.....

the dumb ones eventually weed themselves out anyways. Mr. Mulally probably just set evolution back by 25 years....



edited: to add picture...

[Stinky The Clown]

24. "I violated all the protocols. I touched the President." Huh? What the fuck is *that* about????

Now he's untouchable?

What is he? The Pope? The Queen of England?

Fuck that shit.

[Matariki]

25. Isn't this a SERIOUS design flaw in the car? n/t

[loudsue]

26. I think the CEO was out of line. He should have observed protocol.

Is NOTHING sacred? Mulally should have walked over to a Secret Service Agent and explained the potential danger of the situation quietly, and then let the people who are trained for this type of job to move in. After all, bush IS the president, and shouldn't be touched by someone not authorized to do any touching.

:rofl:


:kick:

[The Backlash Cometh]

27. This reminds me of the scene from Sliders when

they finally made it back home to the right time, but instead of going into the house to confirm it, Quinn relied on the old squeaky gate in the front of the house. He figured that if it still squeaked, then he was home, if not, there's no reason to go in. It didn't squeak, so they left.

But what they didn't know was that there was an antagonist of theirs who oiled the gate right before they arrived.

Okay, maybe it wasn't EXACTLY the same, but you're still left wondering, what if?

[orleans]

28. obviously someone was trying to kill the fuckhead

"he noticed someone had left the cord lying at the rear of the vehicle, near the fuel tank."

now...let's see...who was suppose to set up the cord and plug it in? maybe george should investigate this as throughly as he did with the plame leak and really get to the bottom of who wanted to put his life in jeopardy


and this business about the fuckhead walking faster and faster--a friend of mine did that one time when he was shit-face drunk--he finally fell down. maybe bush was having the same problem?


"crap," cheney sneered as he lurked on from the bushes, "i almost had it."


BUSH IS A HUGH MORAN!

[Aviation Pro]

39. "crap," cheney sneered as he lurked on from the bushes, "i almost had it."

Maybe that accounts for this picture.

[crikkett]

29. Alternate Headline: Hydrogen Hybrids not Idiot-Proof

Another day, another embarrassment. :eyes:

[eppur_se_muova]

37. ...as established by testing with actual idiot. nt

[tinrobot]

30. Oh, the humanity!

[Up2Late]

46. Oh, the Huge Manatee!

[Canuckistanian]

31. No comment

I don't even know why I'm writing this reply.

[enid602]

32. self-immo

Boy, talk about a picture I would like to Caption!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ferret Annica]

33. Stupid is as stupid does...

... he was wrong in getting away from this principle by worrying about what the planet's dumbest chimp would do that day.

[TroubleMan]

34. Having bush go into the Darwin Awards would have made my day.

http://www.darwinawards.com/

[tavalon]

41. Disqualified

Even if he had actually done himself in, he has procreated and left his stupid ass DNA in this world. He can be a runner up but one of the requirements is that you haven't procreated.

[WiseButAngrySara]

35. What a missed opportunity! ...n/t

[AzDar]

36. Why, Alan....WHY?? n/t

:evilgrin:

[Eurobabe]

45. That was my question...

[Aviation Pro]

38. A question....

...was the perp cord placed there by accident or otherwise?

[MisterP]

40. eww, (potential) chimp kebab

[FVZA_Colonel]

42. I already posted this in another thread, but this really does seem to fit the moment:

http://random.ytmnd.com/random.html?498728&213832&198297

[Up2Late]

43. Sounds like a really poorly designed car if the average doofus can nearly set himself on fire...

...by plugging a electrical cord into the wrong place!

Just one more reason to think they (Detroit "big three") are trying to screw this up on purpose.:banghead:

[Warren DeMontague]

44. They need to make the thing at LEAST as safe as a bag of pretzels.

Apparently.