W. joked with Jay Leno recently that he was inspired to take up painting after reading an essay about Winston Churchill. When he hired an instructor for weekly lessons, he said he told her, "There's a Rembrandt trapped in this body. Your job is to find it." No doubt an application to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts will be forthcoming.
W. has at least one unlikely fan for his art. Obama White House press secretary Jay Carney. "I'm a layperson, I'm not an art expert, but I'm impressed by the former president's work, and I think it's fascinating." Carney announced at a recent daily press briefing.
The real irony here is that W., an arguable failure at every public endeavor in his life until now, may actually find success as an artist in our postmodern world. More power to the man who should have been baseball commissioner instead of a politician. Dare we offer him as the new Thomas Kinkade?
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