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With all due respect, you have some misinformation. The White House was decorated in a theme of children's story book characters, just one of which was Harry Potter. And perhaps the media played up that one because the books are so immensely popular with young people (and even many adults) today.

That is just some of the decorations shown on the White House web site ... but I couldn't find the Harry Potter figure displayed there.

About the twins ... I don't drink and don't condone the stunts that the girls have pulled. But from the reaction I have seen on FR, apparently I am in the minority for never having bought an illegal drink while in college. I suspect that the girls have done some rebelling against their parents .... which is not at all unusual among teenagers .... but that in itself indicates that the parents taught them to act differently.

Would you want to be judged solely on the basis of what a very biased media chose to print about you? We have heard nothing of the girls except for those much-publicized escapades. Unlike their predecessor, they are not running around the world on our dime, though they have occasionally traveled with their parents and a small retinue of people. They are not issuing policy statements nor sitting in on high level meetings. They are being college students.

If you see no difference between the previous occupants of the White House and the current ones as far as morality, dignity, and values then you must not be looking very hard.

Kayak, I agree with you completely.

Panama, most of us went through some wild times when we were young. I'll bet you did some things your parents wouldn't have approved of either.

I did, and I had very strict parents. I was brought up in church. We attended church twice on Sundays and on Wed night.

My parents were very good parents. That didn't stop me from trying alcohol and partying a bit too much.

The real test of a good parent is not whether or not a child drinks and acts a bit wild. What matters is what the child returns to when the younger years are over.

Remember what the bible says about teaching a child in the way they should go? It's what they return to that matters the most.

From all accounts, these girls are indeed returning to what they have been taught.

A friend of mine has a daughter that had perfect attendance here in Texas from kingergarten, through high school graduation. She was honored at a special event at the Governor's Mansion here in Texas.

The Governor at the time was Governor George W. Bush. He spoke with her at length about some of the things he considered important for young people. This young lady was a abstinance counselor in her school.

She was a peer counselor in many things, conservation, charity etc.

Well, years passed and this young lady had was honored again with a group of young people for musical achievements.

This time, they were invited to the White House, to be honored by President George W. Bush.

With all of the people that he has met over the 6 years from the time he first met her, he remembered her. She was pulled aside from her group and was asked to come to a family dinner at the White House residence the next night.

She did go. The family dinner was just that. President Bush, Laura, Barbara, Jenna and my friend's daughter Georgia.

She says that the girls are very attractive, well spoken young women that are every bit as charming as their parents. They talked about the fact that they were involved in several mentoring programs and other similar projects.

They went through their late teens and early twenties with a bit of wildness, but they are poised, responsible and caring young women now.

One more thing, panama7, I would have been horrified if the President or Mrs. Bush had chatised those girls publicly.

Their discipline should not be public knowledge. That was a private matter as it should have been.