Bush Slammed for Providing Good Example

The world is abuzz with the New York Times' release of phone calls Doug Wead secretly recorded with "good friend" George W. Bush.

On the tapes, President Bush says he did not want to reveal prior marjuana use, because he did not want children to follow his bad example. Once again, the "mainstream" press has trumpeted alleged Bush perfidy proven -- proven, hot d-mn! -- by these tapes. Bush was straightforward with the American people during the 2000 campaign that he had been drug free since he was 28-years-old, and as for before that....well, use your imagination. Conversely, Al Gore and his holier-than-thou, would-be censor wife Tipper both admitted frequent marijuana use, and Bill Clinton pretended he couldn't figure out how to toke while at Oxford. The American people accepted Bush's answer, and his concern to keep American teens from repeating his youthful mistakes -- expressed privately to a presumed friend in presumed privacy -- deserves praise. Instead, the media make a hero out of his betrayer.