Let's be fair. Bush is not a lawyer, he is not a drunk, and as far as I am concerned he is not a liar (on this topic, anyway). He told people early on that he didn't intend to discuss his youthful indiscretions, and he stuck to his word until this came to light yesterday. I don't like the guy either, and I hope he loses. But I don't want him to lose over this little piece of trivia.

Paddymac and Kim are right -- we've all got something in our past that we would rather not be judged by now. It might be drunk driving (yes, most drinkers who drive have been inebriated behind the wheel at some point), or use of illegal substances (virtually everyone around my age in the USA has used illegal drugs at some point, and for most of us it was a lot more than "experimentation"), sexual relations outside of marriage (it's a rare individual indeed who can honestly deny this one), or something a good deal more sinister than those. If we continue to insist on using those things as our selection criteria, we'll end up choosing between misfits and liars. Sure, if you dig hard enough the information is out there, but it's up to us what we do with it.