[livius]

You are actually permitted to salute if you’re holding something that you can’t put down, for one reason or another, but notice that Bush did not put the dog to his forehead. He gave a nice, crisp looking salute.

[Cicero]

Exactly. And he didn’t hold it with the hand he was saluting with. He didn’t salute WITH the dog, the way Obama saluted with the coffee cup.

[alloysteel]

At least the Current Occupant in not (yet) giving a mock-Spock salute and wishing the greeting “Live long and prosper”.

But he might be working his way up to a two-fingered “V”, though that may require the use of both hands, a la Nixon.

[Kaslin]

Also he held him with the opposite arm, not his saluting arm.

That arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave could have easily switched the cup to his other hand before he went down the steps of Marine one

[GraceG]

Note: More pictures with Barney and GWB than “Bo”....

I really gotta wonder if Bo was a prop to dispel “Obama is a Muslim rumors”....