News reports inform us that George Bush’s motorcade twice drove past Cindy Sheehan without even acknowledging her existence. One would have thought that, upon returning from his multimillion dollar fund-raiser in town, George could at least have tossed a few coins out the window to her and the other common folk gathered around her. Such noble gestures were good enough for Louis XIV. Doesn’t our exalted emperor at least aspire to the standards set by the Sun King?