Bush Ruins Soul Food Night at Howard U

Bush, in another attempt to photo-op blacks while doing nothing of substance for black communities, thought a lil' PR visit to Howard University might get him a bounce from his 2% approval rating amongst blacks.

Unfortunately, many of the students didn't get the memo that much of the campus would be shut down including the cafeteria where their paid-for meals are served. And worse ... it was Soul Food Night.

Hillarity ensued with the eruption of a protest and campus security's bumbling attempts to shut out the media.

Things just didn't work out well for our man of action from the White House:

What might have been a public relations coup for Bush -- a visit to a historically black college to show concern for at-risk youths -- ended up as another Katrina-like moment, with the president appearing spaced-out, waving and smiling for television cameras while students were trying to break through campus security to get to the cordoned-off cafeteria.

But the misbehavior of Bush's supposed props wasn't the end of it:

[T]he visit went from bad to worse. On a day when the U.S. Senate passed a resolution paying tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who died last week, campus security guards were telling students that if they wanted to eat they'd have to come back when the president and first lady were gone, then go to a service door at the rear of the dining hall and ask for a chicken plate to go.

And this, just when you didn't think things could get any dumber.