Washington Post praises Bush's increased accessibility to the press

Yesterday the president held his seventh news conference in as many months (and that doesn't count a session with newspaper editors in April at which Mr. Bush answered questions).

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The scoffers will say . . . that Mr. Bush is making himself available only because -- take your pick -- he no longer has to worry about being reelected, or he finds his agenda floundering so badly he has no choice but to submit to the indignity of a news conference.

To be honest, we don't care. Neither Mr. Bush's motives nor the headlines he generates matters much. The point is that in a democratic society, leaders ought to make themselves regularly available for sustained questioning.

well, i must say that i completely agree... i do believe, however, that he is being forced to subject himself up to the grilling of the press out of the view that, if he didn't, the grim poll numbers would predominate without counterpoint... however, calling the amnesty international report "absurd" may just have the opposite effect of what he hopes to accomplish... using insulting language directed at a prestigious global human rights body may only succeed at presenting himself as a whole burnt offering...

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