Tell Me, What is WRONG With This Photo?

Look at this photo and tell me what you think is wrong with it.

This photo was on the front page of the FT this morning. 

No, I don't think there was any pshopping going on, to give Obama that holier-than-thou look to him.  I simply think that the woman behind him, whom is barely visible, shot off her flash at the same time the Reuters photographer clicked on their shutter. 

My high school journalism teacher, Mrs. Havlik, aka "The Witch", would have freaked out if I had taken this photo and presented it to her for the front page of the school newspaper.  The quality is horrible.  She, at the very least, would have recognized that, and would have gone scouring for better photos.  Yet, Reuters feels absolutely fine with submitting this photo to the wire, and, even better, the editors at the FT felt like this was worth of reproducing on the front page of an international newspaper.  

Have all editorial standards gone to hell in the age of Obama?  So much so that they'd be willing to put this craptastic photo on the front page in an effort to push their Obama-"friendly" agenda? 

Gah.