It is wrong to bash Dean's son or the Bush twins for liquor violations

[BushHasGotToGo]

C'mon its not like we haven't done it.

The politics of bashing teenagers must end.

[JohnKleeb]

1. I dont care really

I havent been the getaway driver in what Dean's kid did then again I cant drive even, and yeah Ive drank before.

[BushHasGotToGo]

2. You just had your birthday yesterday?

How old are you now?

[JohnKleeb]

4. lol my birthday was the 24th

it got bumped up for some reason :). I am 16 now.

[StClone]

3. There is a difference

Teen drinking is bad, but when your holier-than-thou wing-nut parent is the next to God Prez and his whole freeping party uses religion and some pseudo-piety in their platform, by Christ I am going to point it out loud and often. The kids are not innocent either...

[Demobrat]

5. Yes, I agree.

Jenna is no different than I was at that age. She can't help who her parents are, and it's not like she hangs around with them!

[Gman]

6. Dean's son => wrong

Bush twins => OK! go for it!

Why? the principle of the thing.

[BushHasGotToGo]

8. Because Dean's son stole?

I would think he stole the beer because he couldn't buy it at a store.

[roughsatori]

7. When a politician endorses extremely harsh treatment for drug abusers

And then their kid is reported to be smoking weed in Ashton Kutcher's home, they are a worthy target. Also, if you are the First Stepford Wife Lady making PS announcements statements on how others should rear their children--your children being law-breakers (underage drinking) should be publicly thrown in your face.

[dfong63]

9. every time they open their mouths on this topic,

... they should be shouted down with reminders of their own pasts. George's DUI, and Laura's vehicular manslaughter.

[FloridaJudy]

10. Sometimes it is...

*Almost* everyone is entitled to privacy:nopity:

The exceptions are those who set themselves up as moral censors for the rest of us, and then cry "Foul! This is a *private* matter!" when they're revealed to have broken the rules that they themselves have publically espoused.

I live in Florida (duh!) and Jeb Bush and his family have provided many delightful examples of this double standard. The Bush's daughter has a serious substance-abuse problem: first she was caught forging a prescription for downers. After being committed to a pricey detox program (think Betty Ford with designer linen) she was found breaking into the pharmacy and stealing narcotics. Then she was caught with crack cocaine concealed in her shoes...

The Bushes decried the publicity given to this, with "this is a family problem". While I have nothing but sympathy for the Bushes as parents of an addict, the draconian measures they proposed for other young people caught possessing controlled substances mean this is no longer a just private matter. If this kid had been poor and black, she'd have been condemned to a life sentence on the "three strikes" law her father embraces. Don't get me started on Mrs. Bush's trying to sneak $15,000 of clothes and jewelry through customs without paying taxes after a weekend's shopping trip to Paris, just after Jeb laid off thousands of child abuse investigators.

I also was struck by enormous giggles when William Bennett - Mr. "Moral Values" himself - was revealed as a compulsive gambler.

There's an old saying about people who live in glass houses. Republicans and fundamentalists would be wise to heed it.

And don't even think about asking me about the Pope condemning adults in consentual same-sex relationships. What is that Biblical quote about the mote in your neighbor's eye?