Here’s an interesting, if unsurprising, little tidbit about the photos of President Obama on display at WhiteHouse.gov: they’re all uploaded to a folder called “hero.”

Take the one below for example:

If you’re using FireFox, right click on the photo and select “View Image.” Then, take a look at the url in your address bar, which should read: http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/624×351/P023009PS_dng_1.jpg (For those of you who can’t do this little exercise, I’ve grabbed a copy of the picture and posted it here with url properties displayed).

This is consistent for all of the featured photos of Obama on the new WH.gov site. For another example, here is Our Hero announcing former New Hampshire Senator Jim Jeffords Judd Gregg as his second nominee for Commerce Secretary (after the epic Bill Richardson whoopsie): http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/624×351/gregg_announcement.jpg

And here is a silhouette shot of Our Hero watching the Super Bowl (is it safe to say that this administration endorses NBC? Nice product placement there regardless — something you rarely if ever saw in the Bush White House): http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/624×351/superbowl2.jpg (Must…not…joke…about…the…EARS!!)

Apparently the leader of this administration is just too heroic for the old way of cataloging White House files (news, releases, images, etc.): http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2009/01/images/20090115-17_e5u5037-515h.html

Quite frankly, I’d concede this to be an entertaining example of nitpicking were there not so many examples already in evidence of the Larger Than Life, near-religious persona assigned to (and willingly accepted by) President Obama by his devoted followers.

It could be worse, of course. They could have named the image folder “Dear Leader” instead of “Hero.” (Oh no. Now I’ve given them the idea…)