Though a majority of Americans say they're pleased that honor and dignity have been restored to the White House, it is only human to gawk when a crack appears in the marble of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, especially if we've stepped on the same crack. The arc of these stories guarantees a long life. Not long enough. See Friday's New York Daily News. And yet the coverage so far has been more restrained than it would have been if the name on the police report had been Chelsea Clinton.
Conservatives lie in wait for evidence of feeble family values and general Democratic decadence.
Newt Gingrich blamed the squishy morals of the left when Susan Smith drowned her two young sons in a South Carolina lake. The press gave Chelsea Clinton a lot of room when she arrived at the tender age of 13. Jenna could hardly have asked for salt on her margarita before the bartender began dialing 911. Teenage drinking is too common, regrettably, to be news, and Bush's daughters must hate the press for making such a big deal of theirs. But it's also the press that makes it impossible for Dad to claim that in his day he never did such a thing.