Dang, Bubba! Secret Service nixes Tesla drive for Bill Clinton
by Jonathon Ramsey on Feb 28th 2009 at 9:32AM 
Former president Bill Clinton came this close to joining fellow politicos like Arnold Schwartzenegger and Gordon Brown as veterans of the Tesla Roadster Test Drive Club.
At a recent event put on by Shangri La Industries (a green building contractor) at Burbank's Bob Hope Airport, Clinton was on "Guest of Honor" and speech duty, exhorting all that could be good for business and the planet. But just as he was handed the keys and set free to experience the electric thrill that is the Tesla Roadster, the Secret Service stepped in and said playtime was over, it was time to go.
Knowing how much the ex-Prez loves adventure, and if, as it was claimed, Clinton has been into the green thing for 30 years, well, we imagine he'll be back for a spin.
[Source: Tesla Motors]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Anthony Gentavoe 9:39AM (2/28/2009)
Filed under "Green" but with the large private jet in the background I don't think this particular snapshot will be used for the cause. Unless, of course, that is one of the planes chartered by Al Gore.
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Joe K. 9:45AM (2/28/2009)
While he was at the airport did he at least get a haircut?
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BigWill 9:58AM (2/28/2009)
Clinton may have been into the green thing for 30 years, but he's been into the cigar thing a lot longer.
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notYou 10:03AM (2/28/2009)
I look at this picture, and it's like a bunch of people standing around a person who they know committed perjury, was disbarred for it, lied to all their [our] collective faces while wagging his finger and castigating them [us], forced his friends and co-workers to lie for him (Algore, Hillary, etc.) and who's ego dragged the country through an impeachment.
But they love him!
Yep, America has effectively abandoned shame.
[Clinton defenders incoming in 3...2...1...]
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Kattleox 10:55AM (2/28/2009)
Sorry, but thats how I've felt since the first GW. I REFUSE to disagree.
I can see why they didn't want him driving it, though, that being said. I mean, with those credentials, you aren't exactly convertible material anymore.
Smegley 10:58AM (2/28/2009)
I heard this country referred to rather succinctly and appropriately as ...
....... "The United States Of Entertainment" ...
which is very hard to argue with and most likely why we get the fools we get in DC. GOP or Dem is like two different stations, neither of which have anything good on, and the mouth-breathing voting public is too lazy to change the channel on the remote and see if anything else is playing.
notYou 1:02PM (2/28/2009)
Smegley: +1
Sean 2:37PM (2/28/2009)
Jesus tapdancing christ man, he got a *~%^job and didn't want his wife to find out.
Oh no!
Joe K. 1:49PM (2/28/2009)
Sean, if that was all it was, why did his counsel eat a bullet? Lewinsky was the only act they could pin on him from the Starr investigation of whitewater and filegate... The perjury just fell into their laps.
notYou 2:50PM (2/28/2009)
Sean: "Jesus tapdancing christ man, he got a *@~#job and didn't want his wife to find out."
Did you not notice that I never once mentioned the act that he perjured himself over?
It was because I don't care about it.
What I care about is a President that lies, covers it up, castigates the American public for having been caught in it, sends his friends and wife out to defend him, and forces the country through impeachment proceedings. All while knowing that he did indeed do it and ultimately only owning up to it when there is no other way out (read: Blago, Burris, Emanuel, Rangel, etc. ... hmmm, I smell a pattern here)
You realize he was disbarred for what he did? That means that he has been stripped of the ability to ever practice law again - he has been legally de-licensed. And that was by the Bar Association in his home state of Arkansas where he is the favorite son.
They don't do that for hummers, they do it for misconduct. It's a shame our President couldn't have been a better man about it. Had he just told the truth, well, it would be a different and probably better (politically) world. As it is, he's an embarrassment.
(and that's just one bone I have to pick with him...)
Avinash machado 10:05AM (2/28/2009)
The Tesla roadster is a two seater right. Perfect for Bill and Monica.
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Mazda FTW! 10:09AM (2/28/2009)
"Knowing how much the ex-Prez loves adventure"
So getting pleasured at work qualifies you as Indiana Jones? :)
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Santosh Tiwari 11:32AM (2/28/2009)
ROFL :)
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taipeileviathan 2:15PM (2/28/2009)
uncool man, seriously uncool.
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notYou 3:17PM (2/28/2009)
I always wondered why Hillary was so adamant about wearing the pantsuits - kankles!
Mystery solved, thanks Epyx!
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UltimoDragon 3:29PM (2/28/2009)
If we're going to get predictably political because of posts like this involving a president, let's keep it fair and balanced:
"I did not, have, sexual relations, with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
versus
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended"
and
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees"
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JN 4:52PM (2/28/2009)
UD nailed it, folks. We've NEVER had a perfect President. Don't reckon we ever will, either. You folks can say what you want about him, but at least Clinton's foibles didn't result -- either directly or indirectly -- in thousands of deaths.
Reader 5:29PM (2/28/2009)
Are you kidding? I certainly liked Clinton more than Bush, but he still bombed the sh*t out of Iraq for the same reasons Bush said he did (WMDs).
BigWill 9:13PM (2/28/2009)
"at least Clinton's foibles didn't result -- either directly or indirectly -- in thousands of deaths."
Really? I'd like to see you tell that with a straight face to the families of a million Rwandans who died because Clinton and other Western powers did NOTHING to stop a genocide they knew was happening. Want to know what the Clinton Administration did while 8,000 a people a day were being slaughtered?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200109/power-genocide
"In reality the United States did much more than fail to send troops. It led a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda. It aggressively worked to block the subsequent authorization of UN reinforcements. It refused to use its technology to jam radio broadcasts that were a crucial instrument in the coordination and perpetuation of the genocide. And even as, on average, 8,000 Rwandans were being butchered each day, U.S. officials shunned the term "genocide," for fear of being obliged to act. The United States in fact did virtually nothing "to try to limit what occurred." Indeed, staying out of Rwanda was an explicit U.S. policy objective."
Paste that next to your "Bush Lied, Thousands Died" bumper sticker.
CarbonBlack 7:00PM (2/28/2009)
If I were him, I'd give the secret service the bird, and drive one of the coolest cars you can get your hands on!
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