This is just beyond the pale. It's appalling, the lengths "security" people are going to in order to keep any dissent out of Dubya's sight. Is he some version of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal? Is he so mind-bogglingly stupid to think that if the protestors are kept six blocks away from him that we won't see what he's doing? Or is Cheney-bot afraid that if Dubya saw a different idea he might spout something other than his own personal riff on "Stay the Course?" Is a great leader one who can't be presented with opposing views, or challenged on his own? Thank god for Carole Coleman, at least. If only there was an American journalist with both access and balls. You know, I think the toughest interview I've ever seen Dubya have to do was with Dave Letterman, and that, my friends, is a sad commentary indeed.