Longing for W.?

Look out the window, look right now, and see if there are donkeys flying around outside. Surely, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s new praise for George W. Bush would be accompanied by the airborne critters. Ms Dowd is queen of snide from the left side of the political spectrum and seldom (ever?) had much use for W. when he was president — other than as a flaying post. In a column this week Dowd begs Bush to come riding to President Obama’s rescue on the ground zero mosque deal, horrified that Obama would retreat from what looked like unequivocal support for the proposed Islamic center two blocks from the World Trade Center site. “W. needs to get his bullhorn back out,” Dowd writes. “It’s time for W. to weigh in,” to remind Obama what the former president understood and articulated quite well: the distinction between jihadists and peaceful Muslims. While it would be an exaggeration to say Obama has caused Dowd to join lots of other Americans pining for George Bush, this is noteworthy. Now, about that braying outside the window …

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