Holland Youth Show Up US Press Corp?

Someone on the Bush advance team screwed up and let some kids in Holland ask Bush questions that even the American media doesn't get to:

At home, President Bush regularly travels the nation for "conversations" with hand-picked audiences who routinely shower him and his policies with praise. But abroad on Sunday, some youths in Holland had a rare, unscripted opportunity to ask questions that some Americans might want to pose if given the chance.

My favorite question from the piece:

She said she had recently received a brochure seeking donations for poor people in the United States and asked Bush: "What's the balance between the responsibility to the world and the responsibility to your own people?"

How pathetic is it that there's direct mail fundraising for the American poor... in Holland?! Of course the Bush advance squad eventually regained their sanity and got the media out of there. Wouldn't want the Prez to be embarrassed by tough questions from the Dutch school children.

Media were then asked to leave, though the meeting, held in a window-lined room at a glorious chateau near Maastricht, went on for another half-hour.

That last half hour was, predictably, scrubbed from the official White House transcript.