Why hasn’t this 3/11/2004 story in the NY Newsday seen more publicity? The state park employees at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County were instructed that Bush’s feet were not to touch ground when he visited for a 9/11 memorial ground-breaking ceremony. Is it just non-Texas ground his feet can’t touch? They have to touch the ground when he’s “working” on his ranch, right? Maybe it’s some kind of secret cabal curse for powerful Southern politicians?

Freaky.

Yesterday, a big guy, who had been fixing serious pipe leaks in the county executive’s building, was on the walkway unrolling wooden storm fencing that would create an alley for Bush to walk down.

“When you get the fence up, what do you do?” he was asked.

“Cover the ground so his feet don’t touch it.”

“Is that true?”

“My boss told me that. If he says so, it’s true.”

“That sounds crazy.”

“It sounds like I get paid every week,” he said.