Of bullies and blowing smoke.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Mitt Romney - Brief article

If the recent story of Romney's prep school bullying belonged on the front page of the Washington Post, so does the story of Obama's collegiate pot smoking. So goes the argument in a recent piece by Mike Allen and Jim VanderHei in Politico. But Obama had told the story of his drug use years ago--it is no longer news. Romney, however, had never confessed to forcibly holding down a fellow student who was screaming for help. That is news.

Though Allen and Herbert failed to teach me how to smoke marijuana, most of my colleagues at the Washington Monthly over the last...