A Republican friend writes:

I see all you latte-sniffing Volvonauts are trying to make a federal case of how none of the candidates ever seems to mention George W. Bush, as if to suggest there's something we're ashamed of. I find the irony delicious, given that you're the ones who never stop shoving it in our faces that he wasn't elected in the first place. Now you expect us to go around apologizing to all and sundry for all the ghastly things he supposedly did when he wasn't president?

I'm not normally one to play the blame game, [jump]