[Cecily]

"But no amount of eloquence can overcome the bald contrast between that rhetoric and how his own family lives. His daughters are over 21, and he can't control them, but that doesn't let them off the hook. They are now independent moral actors, and their situation requires that they either publicly oppose their father's war or do something to support it. Is it unfair to expect Jenna and Barbara to shape their lives around their father's folly? Of course it's unfair. If this is war, then unfairness comes with the territory."


Yes, Michael, I sure do remember all that public opposition (or was it support?), by college-age Chelsea with respect to Bubba's war in Kosovo.

Flaming libbie hypocrite.

[Parmenio]

"They are now independent moral actors, and their situation requires that they either publicly oppose their father's war or do something to support it.

Er, if their situation "requires" it, then they can hardly be said to be "independent moral actors".

[altura]

Kinsley should really be ignored, but the Dallas Morning News used almost an entire editorial page to print this trash today and it infuriated me.

I do remember a few drunk Chelsea pics, but only in the Globe and such tabloids.

[Rummyfan]

"But no amount of eloquence can overcome the bald contrast between that rhetoric and how his own family lives. His daughters are over 21, and he can't control them, but that doesn't let them off the hook. They are now independent moral actors, and their situation requires that they either publicly oppose their father's war or do something to support it. Is it unfair to expect Jenna and Barbara to shape their lives around their father's folly? Of course it's unfair. If this is war, then unfairness comes with the territory."

I don't even understand what point he is trying to make here.