^ I thought so too. They sanitized it as well, based on the eyewitness accounts I read.
MACS, Jpotts may have been partly referring to the state- sanctioned, borderline idolatrous worship of the two men by their respective sycophantic sheeple.
In Obama's case it is most democrats and the press.
I'm no lover of his predecessor George junior either, but he was usually attacked harshly by the media.