"[S.]

brushed off the story, saying only that he had other things besides politics on his mind all those years ago." That was in response to the below-linked site having the Oui article where S. boasted about working on a "gang bang" (which didn't appear to be a rape from reading the article, but regardless was pretty damned demeaning to the woman involved) and smoking dope, etc.

Actually, if this was just a period in his life when he was young and stupid and then he had changed, it wouldn't be newsworthy, just a bit embarrassing. Unfortunately, there have been many articles of far more recent vintage showing S. hasn't changed his spots one iota.

And given the unbelievable stuff pulled on the likes of Bill Clinton and Gary Condit, it's a bit hypocritical for people to scream "politics of personal destruction" in defending S.