WTF Is It Now?!?

Removed from reality
The WaPo's Mike Allen: Bush isolation from people, press, now almost total.

[Emperor Bunnypants] has granted three interviews in the past five weeks, to conservative Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, the [conservative] Manchester (NH) Union Leader and WMUR-TV in New Hampshire.

[Il Ducebag] has stopped taking questions from the small pool of reporters who cover his photo opportunities, and he has answered questions from the White House press corps twice since Aug. 23, both times with interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at his side. His last prime-time news conference was April 13.

The tradition of the White House news corps shouting questions at the president has largely faded during this term because Bush reacts testily and does not answer, and his staff typically sets up events so he does not have to walk near reporters. {...snip...}

Although all presidents are kept somewhat removed from reality because of security concerns and their staffs' impulse for burnishing their image, Bush's campaign has taken unprecedented steps to shield him from dissenters and even from curious, undecided voters. On the way to the forum outside Cleveland, the media buses that went ahead of Bush were temporarily marooned in a church parking lot because police had been told to divert all buses since they could contain demonstrators.

The horror... the humanity...

Jebus... If he's too afraid to face the American people, how the hell can he be expected to face off with anyone else??