Who, exactly, is destroying America’s values?

From the New York Press, courtesy of J. Orlin Grabbe:

How hilarious was it when Republicans were shocked–shocked!–after John Kerry called them a "crooked" and "lying" bunch? Imagine–a Democrat actually standing up to them and calling it like it is. Most of it is feigned outrage on the Republicans’ part, of course, but hearing Kerry making these statements must have been just a bit jarring, too, simply because Republicans and the conservative media have effectively bludgeoned Democrats into submission for years.

They tried to do it again last week, though Kerry wasn’t having any of it–even if his Democratic colleagues mostly remained silent while the Republican "attack squad," as he called it, went after him.

The essay, which is well worth reading, then goes on to point out how ethically challenged President Bush has turned out to be, and illustrates some of the more heralded moral lapses of his family. Like this choice little nugget:

Last May, actor Ashton Kutcher told Rolling Stone how he found the Bush twins in an upstairs bedroom during a party at his house in L.A.–while the secret service were waiting outside.

"And then I go upstairs to see another friend, and I can smell the green (marijuana) wafting out under his door," Kutcher said, in a quote that got a flurry of attention and a "no comment" from the White House. "I open the door, and there he is, smoking out the Bush twins on his hookah."

What will I tell my young and impressionable students when they ask me about this? How can I tell them that it's wrong to smoke "reefer" when the President allows his daughters to "toke up?" Well? Well? WELL?!?

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