The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

News of the Tautological
“Memory Lapses to Be Discussed Twice”–headline, South Bend (Ind.) Tribune, Aug. 31

Bottom Stories of the Day

  • “Public Colleges Turn to Tuition Increases to Offset Budget Squeezes”–headline, Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 31
  • “Hamas Leader Rejects Talks With Israel”–headline, Associated Press, Sept. 1

All in the Family
“On the day her father won the New Hampshire primary in 2008, Meghan McCain feared she would be arrested for removing Mitt Romney campaign signs from a Nashua street corner,” reports the Boston Globe:

“Stealing campaign signs is technically illegal, but I never thought anyone would enforce this. Nor did I expect we’d get caught,” McCain confesses in her memoir, “Dirty Sexy Politics,” which is released today.

McCain writes that she “had gotten pretty sick” of seeing Romney’s signs, particularly a cluster she and friends suspected had been strategically placed outside the McCain campaign’s hotel. After stashing several of them in a car trunk, McCain was confronted by a passer-by–and later plotted with her mother’s hairstylist to take the fall if local authorities pursued the matter.

“Anybody who was lame enough to pull over and harass people on election day for stealing signs was probably lame enough to follow up and bring some New Hampshire state troopers to arrest me,” she writes.

So the adult child of the last Republican nominee for president confesses to theft and conspiracy to obstruct justice. But she fails to acknowledge that she has done wrong and jejunely dismisses the concerned citizen who confronted her about the former offense as “lame.”

This column is frequently critical of President Obama, but let’s give credit where due: From all we have heard, he is doing a much better job rearing his daughters than the man he defeated did.

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