Your President, Ladies and Gentlemen

Now, I'm not saying that I'd actually like something violent to happen to the man. Don't get me wrong. But it would be spectacularly hilarious, you must admit, if President Mobil McChevron bought the farm from plugging in an electric car.


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.

This is, what, the fourth or fifth photo op from which the President barely escaped with his life? We should start making him wear a helmet and pads everywhere he goes, just in case, like a spazzy 6 year old.