A dozen years later, it would hardly seem that Americans have simply forgotten the foreign policy and and economic calamities that defined the Bush era: Voters spurned Mitt Romney in 2012, largely because President Obama argued that however slow and halting the recovery had proven, a Romney presidency would represent a return to the disastrous economic policies of the Bush years. And in a profoundly karmic twist of fate, Bush’s younger brother risks failure in his own White House quest, in part because Dubya’s presidency has become an albatross. Indeed, if Jeb Bush comes up short in his 2016 campaign, we may date his bid’s decline to his erratic attempts to answer whether, in retrospect, he’d have invaded Iraq — a war adecisive majority of Americans see as a grievous error.

For the first time in a decade, Bush’s ratings are back in the black. That says more about us than about him