Stop treating presidents like royalty - heave a shoe once in a while

clipped from www.counterpunch.org It’s time for the press corps to stop treating presidents like royalty.  If he accomplished anything at all in eight years in office, President Bush has demonstrated that, to the contrary, the president is a very ordinary—and in his case a rather less than ordinary—man. The office of president deserves no more respect than that of the mayor of Detroit, or of Wasilla.