GWB has made his kids a campaign issue.

"Jenna was photographed sticking her tongue out at the media during a campaign stop in Missouri, and gossip pages in New York and Washington have chronicled late-night antics including a ribald table dance (Barbara) and a lengthy public makeout session (Jenna.)"

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Next in line for vilification were Alexandra and Vanessa, Kerry’s two daughters by his first marriage. As well as being engaged in their father’s political career, the Kerrys have their own high-flying jobs – Vanessa as a trainee doctor, Alexandra as a film-maker and actress – and blameless personal lives. However, it didn’t take long before these innocuous biographies were distilled into political poison.

In the case of Vanessa, her offence was to appear in ads for her father and to be outspoken on a number of political issues – as if a 27-year-old woman had no right to be interested in politics. Alexandra Kerry’s treatment has been even more outrageous. Her crime was choosing to work in the “liberal” Hollywood film industry – an offence she compounded by turning up at this year’s Cannes film festival in a dress that turned out to be translucent under camera flashlights. The right-wing smear gleefully seized on the resulting photographs as evidence that the elder Kerry daughter was some kind of pornographic slut.

Set against this nasty and negative portrayal of Kerry’s daughters, the White House’s attempt to reinvent the Bush twins as the perfect embodiment of wholesome American values makes perfect political sense. If only this portrayal were rooted in more than the wishful thinking of the President’s campaign managers.