Of all the things that Barack Obama has done wrong as president, I’d say that trying to salute while fumbling around with his venti soy half-caf light-foam latte is pretty low on the list, maybe Item No. 2,883,441. But we could avoid this sort of thing entirely by taking John Lukacs’s view and advising our presidents to stop acting like they are uniformed military officers. Which they aren’t.

If it was good enough for Eisenhower . . .