Bush nearly blows himself up

[Drocket]

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?"

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


To be fair, if it's actually possible to blow the car up by plugging the cord into the wrong place, then there's probably something wrong with the design. You know what they say: as soon as you make something idiot-proof, they build a better idiot.

[BoogyMan]

If they have a design that would allow a power cable to be plugged into the hydrogen tank of the car there is a serious design flaw in the vehicle.

[jafar00]

I heard Alan Mulally is to be awarded a medal for disrupting the latest Al Qaeda plot to kill Bush with this car bomb. :D

[speedracer]

I think this is the first time I've actually empathized with Bush. Hell, I coulda done that.

[Caravaggio]

Looks like the MSM media is running out of Anti-Bush articles...


http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/VillageVoice_Bush.gif

[Stoner]

Ummmmm.....am I the only one who realizes that the title of this thread has nothing to do with what happened?

For the life of me I can't understand how "he got to the cord before I did" translates to attempting to plug it into the wrong hole or "Bush nearly blows himself up".Â*Â*Unless he's psychic and knew Bush's intentions.Â*Â*Then this would actually be a story.

But it's not.Â*Â*It's left-wing propaganda.

[BIrdzeye]

If they have a design that would allow a power cable to be plugged into the hydrogen tank of the car there is a serious design flaw in the vehicle.



What do you expect from a Ford product?

(former Fix or Repair Daily Taurus owner)

[Professor]

To be fair, if it's actually possible to blow the car up by plugging the cord into the wrong place, then there's probably something wrong with the design.Â*Â*You know what they say:Â*Â*as soon as you make something idiot-proof, they build a better idiot.


True. I don't think it's safe if it's possible to blow it up by plugging the wrong cord in to the wrong thing. Unless he was only showing the president a rough model, not something ready to sell to customers. However, if it was at an Auto-Show, my guess is that it wasn't just a rough model.

[Labrocca]

I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen This is all off the record, right?"

So much for off the record.

[Alonzo]

And once again, bush thumbs his nose at natural selection.

Though, I will say, the failed pretzel assasination has this beat hands down.

[piratemonkey]

Since there isn't a single H2-based vehicle in production right now, this car, by definition, was a prototype.

Prototypes don't have, nor are they required to have, all the bells, whistles and safety gadgets that a production car has.

I'd say anyone who looks at a hydrogen intake and thinks an electrical plug would fit in it... :rolleyes:

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~akerr/ER100/CAFuelCellPship_20061117_43.jpg

[Caravaggio]

And once again, bush thumbs his nose at natural selection.

Though, I will say, the failed pretzel assasination has this beat hands down.

Yeah...I suppose it`s too bad that Bill Klitoon hasn`t contracted Aids yet.

[Alonzo]

Yeah...I suppose it`s too bad that Bill Klitoon hasn`t contracted Aids yet.

See, I didn't actually wish harm on bush.

[Caravaggio]

See, I didn't actually wish harm on bush.



And once again, bush thumbs his nose at natural selection.

Though, I will say, the failed pretzel assasination has this beat hands down.

????????

[Alonzo]

Laughing at stupid people doesn't mean I want them dead.

And acknowledging that natural selection isn't their friend doesn't mean I want them dead either.

[Caravaggio]

Laughing at stupid people doesn't mean I want them dead.

And acknowledging that natural selection isn't their friend doesn't mean I want them dead either.



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And once again, bush thumbs his nose at natural selection.

Though, I will say, the failed pretzel assasination has this beat hands down


Yeah...thats hilarious..

[Alonzo]

Yeah...thats hilarious..

I knew you'd see it my way.

[Caravaggio]

"I talk to families who die."- George W. Bush
Egads Zo, this is beneath you.- BoogyMan


Looks like you might have a history of saying funny and insightful things.

[Alonzo]

You quote a person who claims they talk to dead people, and you use that to mock the things I say?

[Caravaggio]

"I talk to families who die."- George W. Bush

I`m sure you have a legitimate source for that quote?

[Buck Laser]

"I talk to families who die."- George W. Bush

I`m sure you have a legitimate source for that quote?


http://slate.msn.com/id/76886/

There you are.

[Alonzo]

"I talk to families who die."- George W. Bush

I`m sure you have a legitimate source for that quote?


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061207-1.html

[Caravaggio]

Fair enough...I`m glad someone has a job of tracking these types of things.

[Red Dragon]

This is the man who's in charge of nuclear weapons, sudenly I fell a lot less safer. ;)

[Caravaggio]

This is the man who's in charge of nuclear weapons, sudenly I fell a lot less safer. ;)


Yeah ...I felt safer with the eight years of Klitoons criminality.

[BoogyMan]

I love it when folks pile on behind a comment and then it turns out not to be what you thought! LOLOLOL


Source: Link (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2007-04-11T191736Z_01_N11231422_RTRUKOC_0_US-FORD-BUSH-JOKE.xml&src=rss&rpc=22)

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Alan Mulally is no longer laughing about his suggestion that he saved President Bush's life during a recent White House visit.

The No. 2 U.S. automaker on Tuesday apologized after Mulally said his claim of intervening to prevent U.S. President George W. Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of an experimental Ford vehicle had been meant as a joke.

Ford said Mulally never expected the story he told journalists in New York last week would be taken seriously.

The CEO found himself in an embarrassing situation when the story was featured on blogs and even in mainstream media like the Financial Times, which said "he may have saved the incumbent of the Oval Office from blowing himself up."

Recounting the meeting at the White House on March 28, Mulally said he noticed the president appeared to be ready to plug the power cord into the wrong outlet of a rechargeable vehicle that also runs on hydrogen.

"I violated all protocols. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front," Mulally told reporters last Wednesday.

"I wanted to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen," he said to roars of laughter from the media, before adding: "This is all off the record, right?"

Ford said Mulally's anecdote had been inspired by a video spoof featured on ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" talk show that suggested Bush blew himself up by plugging the cord in the wrong outlet.

"I tried to tell a joke about it and proved I am no Jimmy Kimmel," Mulally said in a statement that was released to Reuters on Wednesday. "It never occurred to me that it would get such wide play or be taken seriously."

Ford spokesman Tom Hoyt said Mulally thought Kimmel's joke was funny and showed it to several Ford officials before his remarks to reporters.

"He just meant it as a joke. He kind of embellished the whole thing," Hoyt said. "There was no danger whatsoever."

Bush irritated U.S. automakers and allies last year when he said they should build more relevant products. He has been reaching out to them this year and promoting alternative fuel technologies as part of a plan to reduce gasoline consumption by 20 percent.

[Alonzo]

So hydrogen tanks aren't a threat to bush? Guess we gotta revise the alert system again:

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3240/dhsthreatyn9.jpg

[Buck Laser]

This is the man who's in charge of nuclear weapons, sudenly I fell a lot less safer. ;)


Yeah ...I felt safer with the eight years of Klitoons criminality.


I still miss Bill.

[lily]

So hydrogen tanks aren't a threat to bush? Guess we gotta revise the alert system again:

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3240/dhsthreatyn9.jpg



I love it!

[Drocket]

What's the middle picture (yellow/elevated) there? I get the rest, but I can't quite figure out what that one is supposed to be.

[Alonzo]

The middle one is darwin.

[Drocket]

Ah, ok. The photo is just a bit too small for me to recognize him.