Michael Tomasky: More mosque madness

One thing I always gave George Bush credit for was the way he usually took pains to say after 9-11 that we weren't at war with an entire religion. Of course, other people on the right said or implied it, and Bush didn't go out of his way to distance himself from all that, at least as I recall. But the fact that a conservative president took that posture served to define the terms of the debate in a way about the practice of Islam in America.

Now that there's no conservative president, and...