Those lazy, hazy days of hanging out in Midland

My God, Elizabeth Bumiller has gone so far over the top, she might as well be referred to as "a White House source who was granted anonymity due to the fact that she's 'a reporter' for the New York Times."

Mr. Bush first met Mexican immigrants at public school in Midland, Tex., where Hispanics made up 25 percent of the population. Later, when he owned a small, unsuccessful oil company, he employed Mexican immigrants in the fields. When he was the managing partner of the Texas Rangers, he reveled in going into the dugout and joking with the players, many of them Hispanic, in fractured Spanglish.

Hmmm. Yes, all of those immigrants in school.

Pash, that's High School, you say. I'm sure public elementary school was an idyllic place to be brown.

Midland's school district still operates under a tension-producing court- ordered desegregation plan. And a couple of years back, when its only black councilman proposed renaming a Midland street in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., the idea died for lack of a second.

Look, I'm sure that in comparison with Bush supporters who want to make like the Nazis and "rid" the country of the alien presence, Dear Leader is enlightened when it comes to immigration. But either Bumiller is the most credulous of reporters, with nary a notion of the history of race relations in this country -- or even of the 1950s -- or she's a full blown flack for the administration.