Yesterday when Chelsea Clinton verbally chastised a college student for daring to ask her about her mother's reaction to Monica Lewinski, I realized that the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. She pulled a Bill Clinton.
As she nationally campaigns for her mother, she has put herself in the public eye and is not untouchable any longer. She is also 27, a college graduate and has a career. Her mother is running for President, and has made her own near perfection, a campaign issue.
I always wondered who Chelsea would take after - mom or dad. Bill or Hill. Liar or bigger liar.
Anyone has the right to ask a candidate who is campaigning, anything. They candidate does not have to answer.
This is the Clinton legacy, and Chelsea is now left holding the bag.
Evan Strange, a Butler University student who works on the school's newspaper, The Butler Collegian, said he had asked Chelsea Clinton her opinion "on the criticism of her mother that how she handled the Lewinsky scandal might be a sign of weakness and she might not be a strong enough candidate to be president."
It wasn't clear what aspect of the former first lady's actions he was referring to. Before she was fully aware of President Bill Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky, Hillary Rodham Clinton said allegations about her husband and the White House intern were manufactured by a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
Strange's question at Chelsea Clinton's appearance Tuesday at the school brought a stinging rebuke from Clinton's daughter. "Wow, you're the first person actually that's ever asked me that question in the, I don't know maybe, 70 college campuses I've now been to, and I do not think that is any of your business," Chelsea Clinton said during the campaign visit for her mother. (wnbc)
Chelsea is unfortunately showing that she is like her parents; if she doesn't like the question, she deflects and attacks. Sounds like dad... and mom.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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The Clinton campaign has a total hands-off policy regarding Chelsea-- no interviews, no questions from the press.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. If she is out campaigning for her mother, she is subject to the same rules that apply to any surrogate of the candidate.
Still, it's nice to see the Clintons so protective of their 28 year old daughter.
If you can't ask Chelsea a question without the Clintons going ballistic, just think what they would have done if, when she was say a 22 year old intern, the 49 year old CEO of the company used her as a sexual toy?
Too bad they forgot that Monica was somebody else's 22 year old daughter when Bill took advantage and the whole Clinton team geared up to destroy her--until the blue dress evidence made that smear campaign pointless.
great comment. You are absolutely right.
With those two as "Parents" the poor stupid girl never had a chance - she got raised twisted, tweaked, and dorked from day-1, mioght as well have been in a Skinner-Box...
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