Jay Nordlinger fantasizes a response to a common presidential debate point:

 Senator Obama keeps talking about President Bush. Well, I’m not President Bush. But I think he’s a fine man who has done many fine things. He looked the central evil of our time — Islamofascism — right in the eye, and didn’t blink. He has done necessary and hard and often unpopular things. He has had at least some role in keeping this country safe from murdering beasts for the past seven years — something no one thought possible. I have had my disagreements with President Bush, and he has made mistakes, as anyone would. But I’d sure as hell rather stand with him than with those who hate him and mock him and blacken his name.