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Flubbo op President Bush unscripted In a Q&A before thousands of journalists of color today in Washington, DC, President Bush proved why his handlers avoid, usually at all costs, putting their man in any situation that requires spontaneous speech. Though the crowd, gathered in the nation's capital for the annual Unity journalism conference, was largely polite, some of the president's answers to questions posed by a panel of four journalists were either so awkward, empty or preposterous that they drew snickers of disbelief. And it seems that, under the artful questioning of one journalist, Roland Martin of the Chicago Defender , Mr. Bush inadvertently called for the end of college legacy admissions of the sort that enabled him to attend Yale, based not on his lackluster academic history but, rahther , on his family history. (Question of the day: will he try to back-pedal on this newfound stance?) The president opened his remarks by telling the assembled crow...