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I think her article was right on. You are only upset because it's a spawn of Bush she attacked. If this were Chelsea or Amy Carter, you'd be right there with her. Do you think it's a good thing to have yet another kids book about single mothers who have underage sex and kids and get AIDS? Do you think it's a good thing that this drunken airhead compares her book about a promiscuous South American to the Holocaust?

If anyone's gone off the deep end, it's the commenters who have a problem with Schlusel's column and have such an absurd display of double standards.

FWIW, I've always thought that the behavior of Presidential children and other tangential family members is pretty much immaterial. There is enough fodder for outrage just talking about the policies of Jimmy or antics of Bill...why waste time grousing about Chelsea, Amy or Billy and Roger who have no effect on any policy that affects me in the slightest?

Interesting that you haven't posted in almost a year, and when you posted last year it seems like all of your posts were about Schlussel.

It's too bad you have such a major hair up your a** about Jenna Bush, to call her a skank, etc. As someone else has already said on this thread, the vast majority of us would not come out clean as a whistle if our teen and 20-something antics were all preserved and analyzed to death.

She says she "very, very modestly" hopes her book will have some of the influence of two books about girls caught up in the Holocaust: Lois Lowry's novel Number the Stars and Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank.

That's the only thing in the USA Today article Debbie cites. The bold from Debbie's article appears no where in the article.

And Bush has the audacity to tell USA Today that she envisions her teen-single-mother-with-AIDS book as having the same influence as Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank. She compares her book and its topic to two books on the Holocaust, including Frank's. She even named her single-teen-mother-with-AIDS heroine Ana, a Latino version of Anne.

I'm skeptical, but it would be nice if it had as big ana impact as Anne Frank's diary, but there's no comparison there between AIDs sufferers or single mothers and victims of the Holocaust. Nor any indication she named her heroine Ana because of Anne Frank. Unless there's another interview out there Debbie forgot to cite, her charges are fabricated. Not to mention very, very modestly" hopes morphs into envisions.