Will future politicians have to explain their Web past?
In 1992, when Clinton was questioned about his past drug use, he was able to admit it, but he had to claim that he didn’t inhale. By 2000, Bush was able to declare his past drug use irrelevant to the election. My guess is that Internet comments will be treated the same way. For a while, they will be scrutinized and criticized, and politicians will have to get creative to explain the ridiculous things they wrote when they were just college students. Eventually most politicians will come from a generation where everyone said stupid things on the Internet, and it will become a lot less of an issue.
