Don't ask, don't tell?

And is that a young Chiang Kai-shek in the background?!

Heh, lip-kissing among males is also fairly common in Arab and Central Asian cultures, so it could be worse.

That said, I can't help but think that if this was 1999, the Salon crowd would be cooing about how President Clinton was "secure in his masculinity" if he was having his hands held by other men and reacting the way Bush has reacted in all of the photos

Indeed, on both counts :)