When Ehud Olmert finally, mercifully steps down from office, he could learn a thing or two from George W. Bush about an exit strategy, as the presidential middle initial rewrites history with a liberal supply of whitewash in his pen.

A funny thing happened after Barack Obama got elected. Everyone suddenly liked John McCain. His concession speech, they said, was a return to the “old McCain,” the one everyone applauded when he bucked the system way back in 2000 and challenged Republican front-runner George W. Bush during the GOP primaries. Everyone liked that McCain, and said he had disappeared during the course of his 2008 campaign. The narrative went that his campaign had been hijacked, the candidate himself had been muzz