I don’t know about you…but, i think it was rude of the person who asked Chelsea Clinton whether she felt that the whole issue of Monica Lewinski hurts her mother’s credibility.
How many of us are, or would like to be, responsible for publicly critiquing our family member’s choices in life? We as children, adult or not, are NOT responsible for accounting for our parent’s successes or failures. It wasn’t a question that was appropriately asked of the right person. Why not ask it of Bill Clinton or Hillary herself?
If the person asking the question truly believes that the scandal of years past hurts the credibility of Senator Clinton, then so be it; ask the question of Senator Clinton or her husband. I believe it crosses the line of appropriate behavior.
I am not taking sides in the issue of who should; or, who should not be the democratic candidate running for president. What i am saying is that it wasn’t a valid question for Chelsea to be asked.
First of all, no matter how Chelsea truly processes that whole painful part of her family history and the history of our country in regards to how she lives her day to day life …i think the fact that she is out there supporting her mother says what she thinks about whether her mother is credible.
Say what you will about whether Senator Clinton should or should not drop out of the race…but, i think that Chelsea handled herself gracefully in the way that she responded to the questioner.
She took a large uncomfortable pause and then said…”I don’t think that that is any of your business”…and then proceeded to say…”I also don’t think that should be the last question”. That, is grace under pressure. I am sure should would have much rather let that person have it verbally…but she rose above it.
I think she’s a Super Delegate no? The moment she decided to enter into the political realm was the moment she opened herself up to these types of questions.
Politics is an ugly business.. and the Clintons know this all too well.. afterall they were the ones circulating images of Obama in a turbin.. nothing like a little xenophobia to stir the campaign.
Politicians in general are all a little scummy.
My initial reaction was identical to yours, but since then there has been a nagging question: is not Chelsea a political operative? When she was merely the first daughter, she was, and should have been, off limits. But when she is stumping for her mother’s political campaign, are not all questions political fair game? Lewinsky was a political scandal, and oddly enough the questioner claims he was asking her about the “right wing conspiracy” that alledgedly concocted the Lewinsky scandal. Politics is a rude game.
I’m still not sure I’m comfortable with it, but these are legitimate questions.
Look at the reality of it while you are spending your time feeling sorry for poor Chelsea her family is laughing all the way to the bank with your money, I do not feel sorry for any politician etc they do not give a damn about us that’s why our country is in the shape it is in in the first place.
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.
I think if Chelsea Clinton, did not want to answer any questions she should had not been out there. You can’t pick the question you want to answer. She, old enough to know that. Maybe, her parents should had not protective her so much. It’s not like she fourteen, she is 28 years old. She have to stand on her own two feet one day. The minutes she start campaingning for her mother, she open herself up to the real world and all the uglyless that go along with it. Chelsea Clinton welcome to the real world.
I don’t think Sen. Clinton should be responsible, for what President Clinton did. She is doing enough things all by herself to be responsible for. She think being the First Lady for eight years, is experience to be president. She is also having problems remember things.