Well, yeah. But even still, its sci-fi. Its supposed to be outlandish. You can do all the things you can't generally do in a drama, or even a comedy. The president can be some crazy undercover Jackie Chan-esque woman sent here by the Vulcans to destroy the honey bees, and it doesn't have to make sense.
Well that's odd. You just perfectly described my image of Dick Cheney.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
