I found it very interesting that the bevy of El Paso news reporters who had to go to the airport to prepare for the President's visit before daylight today weren't allowed to say a word until the President was about to board AF-1 on the way out of here!

He never said a word to the press here and nobody could get near him. Evidently someone was appointed as a spokesman to tell them where he went while he was here. For the most part he stayed between the limos and his plane at the airport. He stuck his head out to wave one time but was immediately whisked back out of there by the looks. I flipped bewteen four different local stations and it seemed like none of the cameramen could get a good enough angle to film the President himself.

I'm assuming he's probably already heard that he has about ninety million letters and faxes telling him what he can go with his guest worker program. I told him once again what I think about it but I did thank him for at least looking at the border for a change. As far as I know, he has never done that before.

It was said that he went to walk on the border near the Bridge of the Americas. I'm not sure when or IF he actually did go to the Border Patrol HQ as they said he was planning to do. Nothing was mentioned about that at all. Perhaps there will be more on the evening news or in tomorrow's El Paso Times. He was in the city for less than an hour and a half total.

Streets all around the section of the airport where his plane was waiting were closed until the President was safely on his plane. I find it frightening to think that Bush is THAT afraid to face the people of this nation or that the people assigned to protect him are that afraid to allow it.

Chertoff and Gonzales were here, too, as was TX governor, Rick Perry. Overall, it looked like a massive waste of taxpayer dollars to me. You all probably already know this stuff but that about sizes up the local coverage, which amounts to nothing at all.