Bush Cuts and Runs From Seniors

WaPo— and hardly anyone else—reports the President broke with tradition and ducked the White House Conference on Aging today. $Q: That he went to speak about Medicare in Virginia today, instead of an assembly of delegates from all over the country indicates that he's afraid to speak in anything but a controlled environment,' Binstock said during a session on improving the Medicare program, which provides health care for 43 million older and disabled Americans. He was the first President not to address the delegates in the 50 years the conference has been running—another drop in an endless stream of examples of a President mortified by unscripted questions from those most affected by his policies.