Who knew? Who could have known?
That is, that our 43rd president was much more than the wrong Bush sibling to become president. And much more than the “Mission Accomplished” mouthpiece of Department of Defense and vice presidential puppeteers.
George W. Bush, we now know, had an inner artist that just took a bout of post-presidential void to elicit.
“I paint a lot because, as you know, I’m a driven person,” explained the former president. “But it also allows for reflection. Imagine the state of this country if I had been driven much earlier in life to paint–and not to make my father notice me? Maybe we don’t squander a surplus. Maybe we don’t do an unfunded prescription-drug benefit. Maybe we don’t fight an unnecessary war of choice. Anyway, yeah, it was more fun to do Jay Leno than Vlad Putin.”