The issue of Bush's flight uniform that was mentioned in smooth's article disturbed me.
It disturbed me in part because I remember in a discussion on TFP v3.0 a few months back, all of the American posters who proudly declared that no American President would ever breach Constitutional protocol by strutting around in military uniform.
It feels like that is a non issue in today's America - that the twin precedents of ongoing war and top gun performance art photo ops will become more and more a part of what the Presidfency represents until they're no longer necessarily just photo ops, but something else.
Of course despite all that, whitehouse.org had fun with it:
http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2003/050103.asp