Joanna Weiss says that the furor over the mockumentary, Death of a President, has little to do with partisan rancor or President Bush, who appears to be gunned down in the film. “Given the rise of ad hominem politics — the bald hatred of President Bush and other politicians that breezes across the Internet each day — Death of a President actually comes across as almost kind.” But that doesn’t change the innate unease that comes with imagining a sitting president assassinated.