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Title: CEO to the Rescue (CHENEY ALSO ON SCENE AT BUSH'S KLUTZ MOMENT)
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Washington Post
URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy ... 007/04/10/AR2007041001716.html
Published: Apr 11, 2007
Author: Al Kamen
Post Date: 2007-04-12 15:07:39 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 108
Comments: 5
CEO to the Rescue Speaking of salaries, Ford Motor Co. chief executive Alan Mulally may be worth every penny of that heart-stopping $28 million he made in his first four months last year as head of the company. Turns out he saved President Bush-- and apparently Vice President Cheney-- from blowing themselves up at the White House on March 26. Ford, which lost $12.7 billion last year, wanted to show off its new hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid, Mulally told reporters last week at the New York auto show. So the company decided to give Bush a demonstration during a dog-and-pony at the White House. Ford had an electrical outlet installed on the South Lawn and ran a charging cord to the hybrid. But as Mulally followed Bush out for the demo, he saw that someone had left the cord lying at the back of the car, near the fuel tank. "I just thought, 'Oh, my goodness!' " recounted Mulally, according to the Detroit News. "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?" Sure.
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So Bush's klutziness turns out to have endangered Cheney as well as himself. Doesn't having them both on the scene violate some security protocol? Mulally may have kept us from having a President Pelosi. Mulally now says he was joking. I suspect the White House pressured him to say that.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
I posted this a couple of days ago: Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President (Idiot saves Bush from self-immolation) "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?" Good grief! Just when we thought that it would be impossible for the neocrazies to accomplish the dreaded "false flag" attack, this dupe from Detroit screws things up. And to think we could have had a President Pelosi if Bush had plugged into the hydrogen. A violation of protocol it was for both Bush and Cheney to be present for this dog-and-pony show, but a convenient foul up for getting rid of what has now become the neocon's major drawback to furtherance of their Trotskyist perpetual war scenario.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Great quote by Vonnegut. He was a one of a kind. ;0)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
These dictators have nine lives.
#2. To: aristeides (#0)
#3. To: aristeides (#0)
"I just thought, 'Oh, my goodness!' " recounted Mulally, according to the Detroit News. "So I started walking faster, and the president walked faster, and he got to the cord before I did.
#4. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
#5. To: aristeides (#0)
I've already said too much.
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