Society has a right and obligation to protect children from sex offenders. I recognize that people have a right to privacy and that sex between consenting adults, whether gay or straight, is no one’s business except the participants. But when sex occurs without consent, which is rape, or when sex involves children, society must intervene. The case of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski involved two consenting adults. While their behavior may not have been appropriate by some standards it was no one’s business except their own. Many millions of tax dollars were spent and numerous laws broken nosing into and uncovering their private lives. The mainstream media provided headlines accompanied by excruciating detail, including the shape of Clinton’s penis, etc. This was politically motivated, mean-spirited and totally inappropriate. While any scurrilous rumor about Clinton, substantiated or not, received wide publicity allegations and even known facts about GOP poster boys like Newt Gingrich almost always go unreported. An example is the story that Ronald Reagan raped a young actress named Selene Walters after seeing her in a bar and forcing his way into her apartment. That was before the term “date rape” had been coined and, to be fair to date rapists, Walters described the scene in interviews with People Magazine and Kitty Kelley and said it was not date rape because “I didn't have a chance to have a date with him”. All of Reagan’s dalliances went nowhere in the media because Reagan, who was divorced, got Nancy pregnant before their wedding and slapped around his daughter, was the moral exemplar for conservative republicans who control the portals of power in so much of our national media. Had the story been known perhaps Reagan, who provided lavish funding for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and was involved in helping nazi’s and other fascist war criminals immigrate into the U.S. after WW II, might never have been elected. Flash forward to today. The Internet has been filled with numerous stories about George W. Bush’s private life. Most of these, like the story about Bush’s alleged affair with Tammy Phillips, a partner in a workout gym in Carrolltown, TX, fall into the category of private business between consenting adults. Even though Phillips claims she has “evidence” I don’t think the matter should be investigated. However the allegation that Bush had sex with a 15-year-old minor is a different story. Society has an obligation in cases involving child abuse or rape, in this case statutory rape, to investigate. I realize that people who do not support Bush’s political agenda could have made the story up. But that is a good reason to investigate the case and, if it is untrue, then clear Bush’s name and expose whoever started the rumor. Let’s go back for a minute to the many allegations about Bill Clinton, for example that he had an affair with Gennifer Flowers. This allegation was widely disseminated in the national news but on investigation it was found that Flowers had been paid $125,000 for the story by a supermarket tabloid and $50,000 by a group called the “Concerned Republicans”. She had denied the same allegations 2 years before under oath, and she claimed the tryst occurred at a hotel that was not built until 2 years after the alleged rendezvous. In this case efforts by GOP operatives to smear Clinton were exposed and the republicans, who have been so successful in using sexual innuendo to ruin opponents careers and lives, were unsuccessful. In Bush’s case the alleged facts are these: In the winter of 1971 George W. Bush was dating a woman whose maiden name was Robin Lowman, now Robin Garner. Miss Lowman became pregnant by Mr. Bush, who would have been 25 years old at the time and legally an adult. Bush, and or members of his family, helped arrange an abortion which, in those days before Roe v. Wade, was illegal in Texas. The alleged abortion took place at the Twelve Oaks Hospital in Houston (now called the Bayou City Medical Center). As far as I have been able to determine there is no statute of limitations for prosecuting statutory rape in Texas. I do not know if the allegations are true or not. I did not make them. These allegations have been posted on Internet web sites and by some magazine publishers. I feel it is very unfair for the mainstream media to routinely publicize any and all allegations about democratic politicians like Clinton or JFK while ignoring allegations about George W. Bush. While the thought of sex offender signs being posted around Bush’s White House and Texas homes may scare some republicans, the GOP made clear under Clinton that the sexual morality of the President is an issue of grave importance to them. No one, not even the President, is above the law. I say this case should be investigated. If Bush is found to be a perverted rapist, child molester and solicitor of illegal abortion services then I feel he should be impeached. If on the other hand the story is proven false, I feel the stories should be removed from the Internet and an apology offered to Bush.