The White House public relations nightmare has finally come to a peaceful conclusion.
No, Osama bin Laden has not been apprehended and the brewing war in Iraq has not been quelled.
America's favorite fun-loving twin sisters, Barbara and Jenna Bush, are celebrating their 21st birthday today (probably with cake, candles and Colt .45).
So, happy birthday to the Bush girls!
Ironically, they are celebrating their milestone birthday at their parents ranch in Texas, as opposed to the residence in Washington, D.C., where drinking could commence a whole hour earlier. Hopefully they did not go out on the town in Texas celebrating their newfound freedom Sunday night, though, just because the law tells us they are infinitely more mature today than they were Sunday.
Debate all you want about the drinking age (although our vote goes with 18), but it is what it is. Imagine if you will, how many times the Bush girls were caught drinking before police reported the incidents.
We doubt the cops jumped at the chance to apprehend the governor's daughters, since they would probably like to steer clear of parking the flashing blues in front the Big Guy's mansion.
The Bush girls --Barbara, who attends Yale, and Jenna, who goes to the University of Texas -- are strange celebrities; household names only because people are interested in their youthful indiscretions.
There is even a Web site (www.thefirsttwins.com) devoted to them, with everything from news to candid photos to political cartoons.
Unfortunately for the Bush girls, they received a lot of attention, both from the aforementioned Web site and mainstream media, when Jenna got caught drinking underage, which is a shame. Because their father is the leader of the free world, they live their lives in the public eye, but they should have known better.
Jenna and Barbara will probably grow up and fondly remember their wild and crazy college days, like everyone else, but they are not like everyone else.
While we don't support tabloid media hounding politicians' families for grubby stories, if you are the child of the President of the United States, you've got to live with the expectation that the cameras are on you all the time and a simple, little minor in possession is a big deal.
Jenna and Barbara are still young, so they have plenty of time to straighten up and fly right, so to speak, to avoid falling into the class of shady Presidential family members like Billy Carter, Roger Clinton and the entire Kennedy clan.
Or, worst of all, that terribly embarrassing son of the elder George Bush with all the drugs and alcohol he used to be into. We wonder what he is up to these days.
