WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday that he does not live "in a bubble" and that he is well aware of what is going on outside the White House, rejecting critics' claims that he is out of touch with public opinion. "I don't feel in a bubble," Bush said in an interview on "NBC Nightly News." Bush said he gets "really good advice" from "very capable people" and that people from all walks of life provide information to him and his advisers. "I feel very comfortable that I'm very aware of what's going on," Bush said. But Bush did acknowledge the bubble of security that prevents him from enjoying ordinary experiences. "I mean you feel in a bubble in the sense that I can't go walking out the front gate and you know, go shopping, like I'd love to do for my wife," he said. Asked how much television news and newspapers he regularly consumes, Bush moved to dispel a myth that grew a few years ago after he told an interviewer that he does not read newspapers.
"I don't feel in a bubble," Bush said in an interview on "NBC Nightly News."
Bush said he gets "really good advice" from "very capable people" and that people from all walks of life provide information to him and his advisers.
"I feel very comfortable that I'm very aware of what's going on," Bush said.
But Bush did acknowledge the bubble of security that prevents him from enjoying ordinary experiences.
"I mean you feel in a bubble in the sense that I can't go walking out the front gate and you know, go shopping, like I'd love to do for my wife," he said.
Asked how much television news and newspapers he regularly consumes, Bush moved to dispel a myth that grew a few years ago after he told an interviewer that he does not read newspapers.
That because he is so hated everywhere he goes. When he leaves the US he brings his own Mini Air Force so that his "visit" to other lands is more of an invasion.
Live in a "Bubble" oh yeah! As the Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives said a couple of months ago, delusional, disconnected and dangerous!!! "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within." Cicero
