Yes I agree with that, pdq. Obama's handlers have him completely in a bubble. The press traveling with him aren't getting any access whatsoever, and I learned on NBC News last night, the press pool is only receiving Pentagon feeds of him. That is it.

And Andrea Mitchell referred to that as "unprecedented" denial of access to US politicians travelling to foreign lands, but especially to Iraq.

Very, very scary.

Amos, they are comparable quantities. One is a politician who is president of the US, the other one of two major party candidates who will become president of the US.

That makes the two men comparable, and any claims otherwise are just bizarre, considering the number of men who ever reach this level of the political stratosphere.

Comparing Bush to Obama is exactly what voters and pundits are doing, because they are now officially in the same league, despite some Obama fans protests to the contrary.