Bush has been in a lot of different vehicles during his presidency. He drove Putin around in a pickup truck in order to present a "folksy" image at the photo-ops. That's just being a politician. I would neither criticize Bush for that nor praise him for it. It's just what politicians do. When the photo-op calls for a big black limousine, they use a big black limousine. When it calls for a pickup truck, they use a pickup truck. I saw a photo once of the Queen of England driving a fork lift truck! (she was showing her solidarity with the workers on a construction site)

Politics, that's all.

You should try being less judgemental of other people, Dickey.