Bush Almost Blows Himself, Cheney Up: True Story from Detroit News

The President's lack of common sense has been demonstrated many times.  Here's the latest one, from the Detroit News:  http://www.detnews.c...

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?"

This news comes at the same time as Doonesbury's latest round-up of Bush verbal gaffes in this morning's comics pages.
http://www.uclick.co...

Doonesbury did not run all of them.

"I'm a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. There's a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane."-Discussing post-Katrina wetland improvements, New Orleans, March 1, 2007

http://www.slate.com... is a link to the actual video -- you can push the "play" bar to get to the desired spot pretty quickly.  He really does say it, with that deer-in-the- headlights look of his.

There he is.

Leader of the free world.

Our commander-in-chief.

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