The elder daughter of the President of the United States appears to have been caught on camera by someone, she thought was a friend, smoking a joint. Hell's teeth the girl is eighteen and, it now appears, normal, what is the fuss? She must be feeling a bit betrayed by her "friend" and why the hell shouldn't she have a bit of dope like every other American teenager? It may be illegal but the law is a patent ass. And even arch conservatives must know that. It is not working and it utterly unenforceable.
I despise Malia's father as much as the next right thinking man or woman, though having a soft spot for his Mrs, Michelle, but those who suggest that this is a sign of bad parentage are just talking rot. This sort of thing happens across the US daily with the offspring of parents good, bad and indifferent enjoying a spliff or two. It is just the way life is.
The double standards of those on the right who have bashed poor Malia over every trivial slip up to date, and there have been few, but who now say that she has, as a role model, let America down is nauseating. Conveniently those folks only decided Malia was a role model about five minutes before dope day. Most of those bashing the poor girl today do so not because of what she has done but because of what her father has done.
The real question I have is what was President Obama smoking when he came up with Obamacare, endorsed crooked Hillary and meddled in Syria? Looking back over the past eight years were the POTUS to fess up to serial hard drug abuse that would explain away an awful lot.