[PittsburghAfterDark]

Sorry but this is a huge misstep.

I felt bad for the Bush girls during the media bombardment they endured for underage drinking. I mean c'mon, what college freshman to senior doesn't engage in underage drinking? I thought it was a witch hunt and anything to make Bush look bad.

However she asked for this criticism and it is warranted. Her comparisons are way off base and the hubis she exibits is as narcissitic as any liberal championing an issue.

She should be skewered for her self-serving, self-important PC rants. End of story.

[af_vet_rr]

I felt bad for the Bush girls during the media bombardment they endured for underage drinking. I mean c'mon, what college freshman to senior doesn't engage in underage drinking?

Why would you feel sorry for them or make apologies for them?

Pretending for a moment that it was only underage drinking, they brought a lot of shame to their family.

There are plenty of us who raise our kids NOT to pull the kind of crap they did.

[iopscusa]

Box of Rox for this idiot child of privilege...kinda like Julieanni's idiot child...another chip off the old NoEast Liberal tree!

[Bonaparte]

"Her [Jenna's] comparisons are way off base..."

I agree. I think I liked Jenna better when she wasn't putting on airs and getting so far out of her depth.

[Burkean]

Keep in mind that the press is reporting this to put it in the worst light possible for the Whitehouse. Who knows what she actually said, or whether the reporter was the one who brought up the Anne Frank comparison and Jenna was merely responding.

The media's focus is to embarass President Bush by making his daughter look like a liberal.

DON'T FALL FOR IT!

[altura]

End of Story?

Your decision? No, it will be the end of the story, when I say it's the end of the story.

[Dante3]

You need to feel bad for the twins. Reportedly they did not want their father to run for president and this is why they were not about to make any sacrifices and abstain from drinking. It was their choice. I don't think their behavior had much influence on the election.

I do not hold the acts of children against the parents unless the parents are enablers or otherwise contributed to or supported the bad behavior. I have known nice parents who raised several successful children yet one turned out to be a thug.

[Kirkwood]

She didn't compare herself to Anne Frank. She compared the importance of the message within her book to the importance of the message in the diary written by Anne. That seems fair. Nazis killed millions and so has AIDS. Every author wants their work to be well-received and to have an impact on the lives of those who read it. I think it is fair to make such speculative comparisons out of enthusiasm for promoting your book to the intended audience. It would be ridiculous for any author to say. "My book on AIDS is terrible, go and read the Diary of Anne Frank instead." Sorry, but the Diary of Anne Frank is not the gold standard that every other book written must meet to be considered good or important.

[F.J. Mitchell]

It sounds more to me like Jenna has high hopes for her book reaching and influencing young people on the scale that Anne Frank's diary did. She definitely was not comparing her self to Anne Frank in any way.

The Jackals have been lurking and waiting for any excuse whatsoever to pounce upon the Bush twins, every since their Dad became President. This assault upon Jenna is just same old, same old. Different jackals, perhaps, same old pettiness from the assailants.

[wireman]

End of story.

Ooh, a tough guy!