No meeting for Cindy, but let's try to build a chin for Dana Bash!

All the kewl kidz get some vittles and some pretty-face time with Dear Leader and Lump.

Oh man I used so many monikers in that last sentence it is a crime against humanity.

The casual affair of fried catfish, potato salad, coleslaw, homemade cheese and chocolate-chip cookies followed a tradition in which Bush and his wife, Laura, have the press covering his annual August vacation out to the their ranch in central Texas as a sort of thank-you.

The event was not held last year because of the busy campaign season. The invitations to the reporters were issued on the condition that they not discuss conversations at the event.

Thank you press, for doing my bidding.