None of Your Beeswax

For once the White House has got it right. No explanations beyond what have been given are necessary or required. The issue at hand should really be a non-issue.

 

Laura Bush was under absolutely no obligation to disclose that she had surgery to remove squamous cell lesions from her leg. Last time I looked, she is not an elected official and is entitled to the same rights to privacy that we all enjoy. Sentence end. Period.

 

Just because the presidency has set the precedent of releasing the results of the president's annual physical public, doesn't mean that the same goes for his or maybe a someday her family. In reality, the president should be accorded the same sort of privacy unless it directly impairs his ability to lead.

 

For the press or anyone else to make a case of it is just plain wrong.