London’s Sunday Times just moved a story that tickled the Deceiver radar. It’s titled “Green Obama’s official limo is a gas guzzler,” and it opens like this:

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised to get a million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015. His own new presidential limousine will be far from green, however.

The Obamobile being prepared for the president-elect is said to be a monster gas-guzzler … based on a GMC 2500 truck that gets less than 10 miles to the gallon. Three cars are believed to be in production so that two can serve as decoys.

While security is paramount – the car is built to survive roadside bombs as well as gunfire – there are hybrid four-wheel drives on the market, such as Ford’s Mercury Mariner, which some critics believe could have been adapted for the president.

The key is buried in the portion of the article I omitted above, which kinda obliterates the rest of the setup:

A spy photographer who tracks down future car models for magazines snatched pictures of the heavily disguised first-car-in-waiting when it was being road-tested last summer.

So in other words, this car is probably being prepped by the Treasury Department, which runs the Secret Service. (Remember — the same agency is responsible for fighting counterfeiters.) No matter who on the election, this would have been his new ride.

If you’re looking for genuine gotchas to pin on the incoming POTUS, I’d suggest keeping an eye on the federal government’s Affirmative Action policy. After all, now that it’s been proven that a black man can be elected President, wouldn’t it be hypocritical for him not to dismantle the countless federal laws providing race-based preferences in hiring, government contracting, student loans, public university enrollment, and other benefits?

Not that I’m expecting him to do the right thing. His most important job, after all, will be to get re-elected.