Chelsea Clinton open to running for office

[green73]

http://hillaryugly.com/Chelsea%20Ugly%20Its%20in%20the%20genes.jpg

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton said Monday she would consider running for office if she could make a “meaningful” impact on the country.

“Right now, I’m grateful to live in a city and a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative,” Clinton, who lives in New York City, said on NBC’s “Today.” “If at some point that weren’t true and I thought I could make a meaningful and measurably greater impact, you know, I’d have to ask and answer that question.”

Clinton, who works for NBC as a “special correspondent,” also said she expects her mother, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to “make the right choice for herself” regarding a 2016 presidential run.

“I deeply respect and appreciate all of the admiration and respect and gratitude for my mother’s service,” Chelsea Clinton said. “As a daughter, I very much want her to make the right choice for herself. I know that will be the right choice for our country, and I’ll support her in whatever she chooses to do.”

The interview was part of an ongoing roll-out of Chelsea Clinton’s public persona. Last week, the formerly camera-shy first daughter hosted several panels at the Clinton Global Initiative. She was also on the cover of Parade Magazine on Sunday.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/chelsea-clinton-hillary-clinton-89736.html

[Lucille]

“Right now, I’m grateful to live in a city and a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative,”

YHGTBFKM. I guess we know what sort of policies she'd advance.


“I deeply respect and appreciate all of the admiration and respect and gratitude for my mother’s service,”

Yeah, she's a real class act (http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/10/23/the-return-of-barbarism/). Only Boobus would appreciate, admire and respect Lady MacDeath (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/97168.html).


“We came, we saw, he died,” babbled our notoriously bloodthirsty Secretary of State as news of Moammar Gadhafi’s grisly murder hit the headlines. Throwing her arms up in a gesture of mock-triumph, she averred – perhaps sarcastically – that she was “sure” her recent visit to Tripoli had something to do with the Libyan dictator’s death.

It’s hard to imagine a more inappropriate response to the revolting scene of Gadhafi’s last moments, as captured on video: beaten and bloody, propped up on the hood of a jeep and paraded through the streets of Sirte by screeching rampaging savages, these scenes elicited revulsion even from some pro-rebel Libyans. [...]

That a US Secretary of State hailed the horrific death of someone – anyone – the way Hillary Clinton did in the case of Gadhafi would have been almost inconceivable in an earlier era: say, the 1950s or 1960s. That today no one so much as blinks tells us everything we need to know about the age in which we are living: to call it barbaric is to slander barbarians.

[MRK]

“Right now, I’m grateful to live in a city and a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative,” Clinton, who lives in New York City, said on NBC’s “Today.”



This quote right here is a pretty big stain on any future candidacy. To "strongly support" Bloomberg, Cuomo, Obama, Schumer, Gillibrand and (one of Nadler, Maloney, or Rangel) is a serious albatross.

[abacabb]

She looks just like her mom.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

She looks just like her mom.
Hideous?

[abacabb]

Hideous?
Yes, and on coke.

[Smart3]

This quote right here is a pretty big stain on any future candidacy. To "strongly support" Bloomberg, Cuomo, Obama, Schumer, Gillibrand and (one of Nadler, Maloney, or Rangel) is a serious albatross.

What do you have against Gillibrand? She's nice.

[NOVALibertarian]

I would not be opposed to a rule where a relative of a former president is not eligible for the office. This would have prevented us from George W. Bush and probably Hilary Clinton.

It would also kill the Michelle Obama talk too :)

[green73]

I would not be opposed to a rule where a relative of a former president is not eligible for the office. This would have prevented us from George W. Bush and probably Hilary Clinton.

It would also kill the Michelle Obama talk too :)

But, but John Quincy Adams...

[HOLLYWOOD]

Hideous? Did Chelsea get her 'Community Organizer' stamp of approval from the oligarchs?

Speaking of Hideous, here's some more 'gameshow' drama in the land of TV Idiocracy...


Let's go back to December 5, 1992. Saturday Night Live opens with "Wayne's World." Wayne and Garth supply a Top 10 list of things to look forward to during the Clinton administration.

Number 2? Chelsea Clinton: "While it's true that adolescence has been thus far unkind, we think she's gonna be a future fox." Mike Myers says, "Chelsea Clinton--not a babe."


Uh-oh. Big mistake.


Enter the full force of a furious Clinton machine.
What happened next was best captured at the time by the Baltimore Sun's Susan Baer:
"After hearing boos from the TV community and public criticism from Hillary Rodham Clinton, the show's producers edited out the offending comments when the show was rebroadcast recently [summer 1993]. Mike Myers, a.k.a. Wayne, also wrote a letter of apology to the Clintons.


"'We felt, upon reflection, that if it was in any way hurtful, it wasn't worth it,' says executive producer Lorne Michaels. 'She's a kid, a kid who didn't choose to be in public life.'"

Not worth it? The amount of pressure required to force the pioneering creator of Saturday Night Live to confess anything isn't worth it must have been staggering. Maybe it was Hillary saying: "It's mean and nasty to pick on Chelsea's appearance. I think it's sad that people don't have anything better to do than be mean to a child." Or maybe it was the New York Times's arch tsk-tsker Frank Rich calling the show's Chelsea zingers "rude." But isn't rude what late-night comedy is all about?
Hillary's press secretary Neel Lattimore was quoted a few years later saying, "Her parents were very upset about it. They let it be known that the Saturday Night Live piece was cruel and disrespectful. This was a 12-year-old child they were parodying on a show for adults. Unbelievably cruel."
Unbelievably cruel, perhaps. We'll leave it up to the aggrieved party to define the amount of harm done. But for the Clinton camp, bullying NBC is something of a tradition. It happened again around the same time, with another late-night NBC funny show.

we hate your kids (http://gawker.com/we-hate-your-kids/) chelsea clinton (http://gawker.com/chelsea-clinton/) self-referential (http://gawker.com/self_referential/)
By Ryan Tate
Feb 10, 2008 11:13 PM
You Too Will Come To Regret Ever Mentioning Chelsea Clinton

Suspended NBC correspondent David Shuster is just the latest in a long line of people to regret ever bringing up Chelsea Clinton (http://gawker.com/tag/chelsea-clinton/), who has long been something of a third rail (http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/02/08/shuster-suspended-over-pimped-out-chelsea.aspx) in American politics and media. The press was sufficiently skittish about her under Bill Clinton's presidency that they by and large observed requests from the First Family to leave Chelsea alone (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02EFDA163DF930A35751C1A9669C8B 63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all) during her time as a student at Stanford University. Even though contemporary Chelsea has stepped up her involvement in her Mom's presidential campaign, she apparently must be treated delicately in the political scrum, if the Shuster incident is any guide. After the jump, a surely incomplete list of people who wish they had never mentioned Chelsea Clinton (http://gawker.com/tag/chelsea-clinton/). Learn from it and avoid their fate.



John McCain apologized (http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html) for telling the following joke, which will surely come back to haunt him as the Republican nominee for president: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."
Movie star Mike Myers sent an apology (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21527) to the White House after a skit on Saturday Night Live mentioned Chelsea. The skit was an episode of the fictional show Wayne's World in which Wayne, played by Myers, and his sidekick Garth, played by Dana Carvey, said of the Gore daughters, "If they were a president, they'd be Babe-raham Lincoln." Then: "Chelsea... well, she's a babe in development." The tame joke prompted not only an apology from Myers but from Carvey and show executive producer Lorne Michaels.
When New York Magazine writer (and Gawker alum) Jesse Oxfeld was a Stanford student, he was fired from the Stanford Daily (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02EFDA163DF930A35751C1A9669C8B 63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all) for violating a ban on writing about fellow student Chelsea. He parlayed (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,987056-2,00.html) the experience into a gig as a Chelsea pundit on TV and radio.
Another college journalist at the time, some chump running the UC Berkeley student paper, wussed out and apologized (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/11/24/chelsea.apology/) for a satirical column about Chelsea just because it said "Show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass" and printed her address. God only knows what became of that guy, but it probably involves some dead-end job working nights.

[Occam's Banana]

I deeply respect and appreciate all of the admiration and respect and gratitude for my mother’s service,

Why doesn't she admire the admiration and respect and gratitude for her mother's service? Why isn't she grateful for it?

And what about the appreciation for her mother's service? Doesn't that deserve any respect or appreciation or admiration or respect or gratitude?

(My head hurts now. I'm gonna go lie down ...)

[Smart3]

But, but John Quincy Adams...
Better law would be "A close relative of the President can not be elected President in the following three elections"

Covers Adams/Harrison/Roosevelt.

[green73]

Better law would be "A close relative of the President can not be elected President in the following three elections"

Covers Adams/Harrison/Roosevelt.

Thank god the Roosevelts would be protected.

[satchelmcqueen]

so the clintons and bush family will not go away. i hate all of these people.they are liars and murderers.

[jkr]

dog catcher

[amy31416]

I bet her husband's already cheated on her numerous times.

[HOLLYWOOD]

"U-G-L-Y you ain't got no alibi, you UGLY, HEY HEY, you UGLY" ...metaphorically

these con artist continue to get the public to buyoff on their bullshit. When you have good actors, I presume TPTB stick with the family tree of fraud.

[green73]

I bet her husband's already cheated on her numerous times.

What are you trying to say?

[anaconda]

Terrific news! I think she would do a great job as dog catcher.

UPDATE: Oops! I see jkr already beat me to this in post #15 above.

[amy31416]

What are you trying to say?

That she, like her mom & dad, didn't marry for love.

[RickyJ]

I bet her husband's already cheated on her numerous times.

If he wants to live he better not. He needs to take a look at the Clinton body count.

[Philhelm]

Terrific news! I think she would do a great job as dog catcher.

UPDATE: Oops! I see jkr already beat me to this in post #15 above.

She looks like she should be the one being caught, not the other way around.