Are you not all missing the point? We need to know whether she was sacked simply for making an obscene gesture or whether she was sacked for making an obscene gesture to GWB in particular.

Would she have been sacked if she had made the gesture to someone else? If the answer to that last question is "Yes", then all well and good. If the answer is "No", then she shouldn't have been sacked. It really is that simple.

On a purely personal note, he'd automatically get a V-sign from me if he got within a hundred yards of me, whatever I was doing.