The “Miss me yet?” billboard starring George W. Bush along I-35 in Minnesota is only one visual example of the 43rd president’s rehabilitation, which New York Times blogger Stanley Fish notes is officially under way. The March 8 of Newsweek added the cover line “Victory At Last” to a photo of Bush’s 2003 “mission accomplished” moment on the aircraft carrier. President Obama’s embrace of versions of Bush policies in Iraq and Afghanistan and inability to close Gitmo or deal decisively with terrorist detainees have fueled pro-Bush sympathies, as has the health care battle. As for history’s judgment of Bush, Fish writes: “I will venture to say that it will be more nuanced than anything the professional Bush-haters — indistinguishable in temperament from the professional Obama-haters — are now able to imagine. He will not go to the top of the list, but neither will he be the figure of fun and derision he seemed destined to be only a year ago.”
Meanwhile, here is a photo slideshow of alternative slogans for the billboard, such as “My bad.”
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