Last week George W. Bush almost did to himself, what he’s done to Iraq. Namely, he almost lit himself on fire.
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?”
Boy genius. What’s the stupidest thing you’ve almost done?
I’d a gone the other way as fast as possible, and hoped the conflagration engulfed shooter too…accidents happen
AAAARRRGH !!! The one time we would want him exploding a hydrogen bomb!!
What do you mean almost done?
Always open the cover to the pool heater and let it air out a bit, because if there’s been a slow leak inside the box all winter long and you strike a match to light the pilot – well, lets just say your butt’s gonna be sore when you finally land and that people with no hair on their arms or face look a bit funny.
What an image!
I can sympathize, especially the hairless part – I may even top you!
Me and neighbor kid (we’re about 12-13), home made bomb – a bag of powder nicked during a recent visit to his grandfather who made his own ammo in the barn – home made fuses, string dipped in kerosene. Well, since we could not make the fuse work properly, we somehow decided to light it directly. It sure went off, eyelashes and brows gone and a brand new hairstyle – what saved us were the patches of snow still remaining that spring. We dived in head first.
Jeez.
Ford can’t do ANYTHING right!!!
AG
Oh HELL!!!
Look.
It woulda been the daily double.
ChenyBush.
Provided of course that Cheney is not falready ireproof from all the time he has spent fraternizing with the Devil.
Remember…only Ford can prevent justice fires.
Buy Korean.
AG
Cheney probably left the cord out for Georgie to play with..don’t you think. For once you think Ford would not want quality to be job one.
…I guess.
I mean, think about it…Bush goes up in flames, and Cheney becomes the President.
What do you bet me Mulally retracts his story after the White House thugs get done working on him? No tax breaks for you, Ford!
Cheney’s right there, though. My brother just read me this comment from Fark…
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2725253
That makes me think of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, and the infamous Improbability Drive.
There are so many improbables appearing at an increasing frequency that something is going to be resolved, probably messily on our end, just to balance a cosmic equation.
Lady Justice lifts a scale with two pans.
Um, does ALMOST driving away with the car seat on the roof of the car count? How about if the baby is IN it at the time?
YIKES!
The guy wouldn’t have had to violate protocol if Bush didn’t suffer from an incurable case of “me first”!
It’s also a classic example of “I most certainly do know what I’m doin’!”
Hmmm. Hydrogen and electricity. What can go wrong? Oh yeah, there was that Hindenburg thing.
AF
I can’t really blame Bush for this. This seems more like a design flaw with the car,
but then again, I almost got married at 19 to my first college boyfriend. We talked about it, and I even started going to Catholic Masses just in case (he was a very staunch Catholic, which made for a lot of soul torment when he pulled out a condom). Turned out he was still in love with his ex-girlfriend, who was my best friend (and couldn’t stand him, BTW), so I ended up in a “friends only” relationship…meaning he’d talk to me about her and ask what he could do to win her back, and I’d try to let him down as gently as possible.
An ironic twist — later on my best friend fell head over heels for another friend of ours…and this time it was my turn to let HER down gracefully, because he told me he was gay. (Also told me some interesting tales about what REALLY goes on in some Catholic rectories; wish I could remember some of the better ones).
Oh lord, I’m so tired of being teased.
Sure, I’ve almost killed myself, but I daresay the celebration afterward would pale in comparison.
Yeah, that’s how Bush has gotten by his entire life…. someone else always stepping in to save his bacon when he’s about to do something stupidly self-destructive.
Tells you something, though, when it almost immediately occurred to the Ford chairman that yes, the President really COULD — or would — do something stupid like that.
Also tells you something about the car design that isn’t too comforting, either… that the possibility of connecting electric cord to hydrogen even EXISTS.