Holiday in Crawford

Have vacation plans this month? You need to change them and travel instead to the politically picturesque Crawford, TX where opportunities for media attention about your given diatribe has never been more ripe.

As many of us know, President Bush has taken more vacation leave than any other President before him, at this point accumulating over 300 vacation days, whereas Clinton took a total of about 150 over eight years.

The consistently conservative Wall Street Journal printed a great editorial today discussing the administration's current public relations strategy encompassing Prairie Ranch, which has now been monickered White House West.

The administration has chosen the slow news season of August to showcase daily issues the President wishes to promote, while guiding news coverage away from less flattering issues (War in Iraq) - and the media, with little else to cover aside from Jen and Angelina, and a propensity to print any words that come out of the monkey's mouth, has gone even further and made headlines of his daily talking points.

Until Cindy Sheehan arrived.

Sheehan lost her son in Iraq and has been protesting around the country against W for months, but she never received the press coverage she achieved this past week outside Praries Ranch, where she became the only fascinating alternative to the droll ramblings of the President.

She swore to remain camped outside Prairie Ranch until the President meets with her. Accoridng to the WSJ they did actually meet previously, but Sheehan recalled the President as being callous (imagine that) and demands a second meeting to express her grief.

Articles on Sheehan have also stated that Fox News (of course) has chosen to snub any coverage of Sheehan.

So now is your opportunity. You have a message? Start your own public relations campaign, the media awaits you in on the ranch.