It looks casual and relaxed, but in reality it's tightly scripted and all but hermetically sealed. Yesterday's Presidential visit to Parkville Middle School went off without a hitch, thanks to extensive advance work by White House staffers who apparently started showing up more than a week ahead of time and a nearly complete clampdown on the local press and educators involved with the school. I'm told that local press access was limited to the Baltimore Sun; everyone else had to work off of images transmitted by
