Just when you think petulant Tom Shales set the standard for snark in the Washington Post, check out Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times today:
The most dramatic moment occurred when he acknowledged a dead marine’s Texan mother in the balcony. As she handed what appeared to be her son’s dogtags to an Iraqi woman, the president bit his lip and looked like he was about to cry — a poignant tableau that superseded all the flag-covered coffins the Pentagon has shielded from cameras and all the soldiers’ funerals the president has not attended.