normally a president should not have to. but he has been so poorly served by the white house political and communications apparatus, that this is what it comes to sometimes.
while he's at it - I recommend to him that he re-assign Scott McClellan to pumping duties in new orleans.
I don't care if it's New Orleans or a San Francisco bath house, but he needs to be assigned "pumping duties" somewhere besides the WH Press Room.
He is too weak for even those morons in the press room.