At the Boys Club (later rechristened the Boys and Girls Club), a few blocks from my house, Section 8 ruffians would strip the towels from pool-goers and shout, "Saw you naked!" The ritual caused me to walk home with sweatpants covering my wet swimsuit in single-digit temperatures. I dared not take the trunks from my body so some older kid could shout, "Saw you naked!" I once saw a kid, certainly now dead from crystal methamphetamine, pin another kid by way of knees over the shoulders--both combatants totally naked--to humilate him (and bloody his nose) with a taunt of "I saw you naked!" When the overseers shut the building down one night because ABC planned to broadcast The Warriors (Boston's affiliate refused), I knew, even then, that I needed to get a new hangout. The naked assailants, in their defense, were 12, and it was 1981. This same phenomenon now occurs among older, and more cultured, members of society. A case in point involves the vice president's beautiful 27-year-old daughter. An alleged "friend" caught her on video allegedly snorting a line of cocaine. If he were more than an alleged friend, he might have discussed this with her dad or her brother rather than the New York Post. But he wants to make a buck. He doesn't care about reorienting a life. "I saw you naked!" It doesn't matter if the object of attention is the daughter of Joe Biden, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, or Joe Schmuckatelli. It's voyeuristic, not news, and undeserving of the attention of decent people. Avert your gaze. My sense, from reading the enlightened comments that regularly grace this site, is that you probably have already done so without the need of my prompt. Whatever. I just needed an excuse to pass on these scarring stories from my youth.

Amen! Much as I despise what Biden stands for I have compassion for his family. (Too bad Sarah Palin was not afforded the same decency). As one with 4 children (2 grown and 2 very little) I cannot fathom how people with children luxuriate in this garbage. There are two classes of people: the decent and indecent. For whatever its worth I will not bring this stuff up in debate with a lib (as I say I wish the inverse were true). But such is the nature of so much discourse these days.

wow ,if this was Bristol, good god the press and libs would have a field day. but its Joe Blows kid so oh well. she is hot to bad they aint got no nudie pics to boot!

How can you compare the two. A childhood prank and a VP daughter who is doing rails (obviously not her first time), and then to compare a child brought into this world in very undesirable circumstance. I loved Sarah Palin, but was very critical of her daughter getting pregnant. As a father I know that your hold your breath once they hit a certain age. If her mother was more of a mother and less, not at home, maybe this child would have been born to a mother and a father... a family.

Doing cocaine in this day and age is not a big deal. I dislike that fact, I gather that you dislike it, and I imagine most readers of this site dislike it as well, but the fact remains that it is not. What the article in question represents is not a genuine moral concern with the proliferation of serious drugs in American society, but a crass "got ya!" article. I think that's what Dan was criticizing.

The 'minor' children of any politician, regardless of party, should be out of bounds, period, no exceptions.
In a perfect world the adult children of politicians would garner no more attention than anyone else for their actions. I'm surprised this has recieved any attention at all because of the double standard regarding the parties. How much press did/do the actions of AlGore's children get? Any thing I've ever heard about them came only from foreign news sources.

I agree with the responses here that this kind of thing should be out of bounds and in an adult, common sense, wrong thing to do kind of way, most would realize that.

But it pains me that 'tagm' is right that although most clear thinking folks not on the left know the difference, if this were ANY conservative/republican spawn, the same rules would definately not apply.

It's unfortunate but the personal has become political.

During the campaign, the Fraud in Chief postured that families should be out of bounds and then put his hounds at the Times and others onto anything to do with the McCain and especially the Palin families.

In this particular case, Biden and his ilk will only slightly get a taste of their own medicine and not for political purposes but for a handful of deflated dollars.

Doing cocaine is not a big deal? Then why do you suppose this is a story? Why do you suppose it is a crime?

You mean, I guess, that among your friends it bears no stigma. Maybe even among people your age. If my son was doing blow it would be a big deal. It's unhealthy, expensive, criminal, and supportive of society's worst leaches. Oh yeah, it's also really stupid.