John E. Quantum says:

Th Secret Service is responsible for this. They survey the presidential route prior to any trips by POTUS. Somebody missed the hazard. They just found the agent to take over the artic circle counterfitting office.

deowll says:

It most likely has mushy suspension due to weight from armor but if the President had been in the vehicle stuck in order to prevent him from being a setting duck for an assassin the vehicle behind should have shoved the stuck vehicle far enough out to get unstuck.

Of course not having done a test run suggests somebody needs spend a few months peeling spuds to remind them to use their brains. Okay maybe they did do a test run using an empty car.

laxdude says:

I find it hard to believe that the SS does not have ‘mule’ type vehicles built on the same GM medium duty truck frame with identical wheelbase, angles of approach and departure, clearance and corners that goes around on the route beforehand. I also can’t believe that the ‘limo’ doesn’t have an better suspension to avoid an unplanned high-spotting.

Of course if things went bad the trailing vehicle would be able to push it off…but man…I wonder how many people got dressed down and had their careers ended over this. I guess the SS team at McMurdo base just shipped out – can’t been too prepared.

Miguel says:

Aaaahhhh…

http://ridelust.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Maximog-Unimog.jpg

MikeN says:

>Bush of course, wouldn’t be doing anything as important as a state visit to our closest ally. He would be reading story books!

In Fahrenheit 9/11 they have a scene of the President at Camp David along these lines. What the movie doesn’t mention is the person walking next to the President is Tony Blair.

Mr K says:

#11… Hey Einstein… before you try to insult someone again you might want to learn how to use a dictionary seeing as how “corpulous” isn’t a word… perhaps you mean corpulent?