Well, since it's President's Day it wouldn't be right to speculate about the past lives of potential presidents.

4 days after the Drudge report (see below), John Kerry's alleged intern says "I never interned or worked for John Kerry."

Yet there is a strange double standard as the major newspapers try desperately to find out if Bush was AWOL for National Guard service 30 years ago.

"Both the New York Times and the Washington Post, for example, have written about whether President Bush actually carried out his duties as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard in 1973.

That has public importance given that trust and national security issues are major campaign themes. John Kerry's record as Senator and the support he has or has not received from lobby groups are also obviously fair game.

But neither paper has covered the John Kerry story which has engaged the attention of websites, radio and TV talk shows, some of the tabloid papers and elements of the foreign press."

And this from the same article according to the Washington Post's London correspondent:

"In any case, nobody would be too shocked if Kerry lied about an affair. Even if someone came to us with photographs we still wouldn't run it."