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Burning Bush (almost)

Monday, Apr. 9 2007 @ 8:04AM

By Paul Brennan in Main

We were moments away from President Cheney last week, it seems.

The Detroit News reports:

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?"

First, he chokes on a pretzel, and now this-- George W. Bush appears fated to die a ridiculous death.

(Note to Alan Mulally: Get reporters to agree it's off the record before you tell them how the President of United States almost turned a photo op into death by stupidity.)

(via Gristmill)