Chelsea Clinton Snubs 9-Year-Old

WKMG TV NEWS ^ | 12-31-2007

[Cagey]

VINTON, Iowa -- It's one thing for Hillary Clinton's campaign to turn down interview requests for the candidate's daughter, Chelsea. But can't a 9-year old reporter catch a break?

Sydney Rieckoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and "kid reporter" for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they've campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response.

"Do you think your dad would be a good 'first man' in the White House?" Rieckoff asked, but Chelsea brushed her question aside.

"I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute," Chelsea told the pint-sized journalist.

Such is the paradox of Chelsea as she campaigns across Iowa in the closing days before the state's caucuses Jan. 3.

Tall and attractive, Chelsea cuts an impressive figure on the campaign trail; she plunges enthusiastically into the crowd after her mother's speeches, shaking hands and posing for pictures while asking, "Are you going to caucus for my mom?"

But onstage, Chelsea never speaks; she stands next to her mother and applauds but utters not a single sentence and doesn't even say hello. And reporters covering the campaign have been put on notice that Chelsea is not available to speak to them. An aide follows the former first daughter as she works the crowd, shushing reporters who approach her and try to ask any questions.

Famously protective of their daughter's privacy, Bill and Hillary Clinton have taken pains to shield Chelsea from the harsh glare and rough edges of presidential politics. She stayed largely absent from her mother's campaign until December, when she made her first visit to Iowa.

For her part, Sydney looked a bit crestfallen after Chelsea turned her away. But luckily for Hillary Clinton, Sydney's mother has made up her mind to caucus for the former first lady.

"I like her position on family values and health care. And I think it's time we have a female president," Robyn Rieckoff said.

[BlessedBeGod]

Posted here: Chelsea Clinton guards her words ["I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you....]

[swain_forkbeard]

“Tall and attractive, Chelsea...”

It’s beneath me to comment.

[rottndog]

Yep...almost requires a BARF alert.

[andonte]

The young witch is just like the old one.

Fortunately, Hillbillary had only one child. Imagine two, three, four, or more of them? Bleech!

AMERICA TO HILLARY: DROP DEAD!

[Redbob]

BFD

[hellbender]

But luckily for Hillary Clinton, Sydney's mother has made up her mind to caucus for the former first lady. "I like her position on family values and health care. And I think it's time we have a female president," Robyn Rieckoff said.

Nothing sums up the stupidity of the typical Democrat voter than this statement. Family values? RFLOL.

[Izzy Dunne]

I think it's time we have a female president

Not that I'm a sexist or anything.

[TheDoctorNoh]

Seriously...compared to whom? Amy Carter?

[driftdiver]

“”I like her position on family values and health care. And I think it’s time we have a female president,” Robyn Rieckoff said.”

And here I thought we wanted to elect the person most qualified regardless of their race, gender, or religion.

IMO Democrats are the most discriminatory bunch there is.

[ElkGroveDan]

"Do you think your dad would be a good 'first man' in the White House?"

Someone needs to tell that kid Web is dead.

[mtbopfuyn]

I like her position on family values and health care

Sydney's mom doesn't get out much, does she.

[beefree]

And I think it’s time we have a female president,” Robyn Rieckoff said

muuust haaaave boooooobies

[gridlock]

This "We don't talk to the people" thing is going to wear thin between now and Thursday. The people of Iowa are getting a good look at the kind of behavior they can expect from Hillary! over the next eight years, and it is not a pretty sight.

[stinkerpot65]

1. She's not a candidate. Who cares if she doesn't talk to the press?

To be such an ugly kid, she turned out pretty well.

[wideawake]

Tall and attractive, Chelsea cuts an impressive figure on the campaign trail

He said the same thing about Donna Shalala.

[ShadowDancer]

Try doing a search first.

[CindyDawg]

There is nothing wrong with refusing to talk to reporters. It didn’t sound rude at all to me.

[null and void]

“Tall and attractive, Chelsea...”

It’s beneath me to comment.

[xtinct]

A picture's worth 1,000 words... (GASP)

[wastedyears]

Except Hiltery has all the wrong values, if any at all.

[Uri’el-2012]

"I like her position on family values and health care....." Robyn Rieckoff said.

Yes like Slaughtering 40 million innocent Americans
and promoting perversion.

Family values ?

[weegee]

Chelsea knows not to tell any tales until her mother has passed away. Hillary has a mean throwing arm and a goon squad.

[null and void]

16 seconds...

[CaliGangsta]

Tall and attractive, ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!

[whitedog57]

Where is the Howdy Doody picture?

[ElkGroveDan]

Bill Clinton and his dogs.

[Augie]

“It’s beneath me to comment.”

OK, I’ll do it.

Attractive to what? A rutting pig? Flock of vultures? Starving hyena? Rosie O’Donnell?

[weegee]

She’s appearing at functions with her mom asking people to caucus for Hillary. The question was about Bill, who IS a candidate for an office that he is not constituionally elligible for (he has said that he will sit in on cabinet meetings “if (when) Hillary asks him to”.

They are soft selling another term for their co-presidency.

[advertising guy]

not me......that is ass ugly

[Hazwaste]

“Tall and attractive, Chelsea...”

Like Mom used to say about Amy Carter, "Oh that poor child!".

[xtinct]

Here you go...

[wideawake]

If you are young and thin, and you have access to Hollywood-quality hair and makeup people, you will look presentable no matter what you look like in real life.

[Turret Gunner A20]

“Tall and attractive, Chelsea...” It’s beneath me to comment.

Aw, give the snotty brat a break -- at least admit she's tall.

[Turret Gunner A20]

AMERICA TO HILLARY: DROP DEAD!

Dreamer.

[null and void]

not me......that is ass ugly

I'd be willing to bet that that side of her doesn't look all that bad.

[driftdiver]

“There is nothing wrong with refusing to talk to reporters. It didn’t sound rude at all to me.”

I wasn’t referring to her, I was referring to the person quoted who wanted Hellery elected because she is a woman.

I detest the girls parents and think she is just a tool they’ve used to further their own careers. Their refusal to allow her to talk is quite telling. I can certainly understand it if she were 12 but she is 23 now.

[stinkerpot65]

Well, she’ no supermodel, but she looks OK to me. Why pick on the candidates kids? You hear the same stuff about the Bush daughters from the hyenas on the Democratic side. We ought to be a little classier.

[Tax-chick]

She’s really improved her hair and makeup, and doesn’t look bad, all things considered. A fine complexion, and great job on the eyebrows. And she is tall, at least compared to me.

[xtinct]

lol...

wondered if you noticed that...

[beefree]

Did anybody else see Bill Clinton HUGGING this child? (on FOX)

[yield 2 the right]

That so common at least to some young women her age that I see daily.....some one says “HI” and they go nuts!!!!

[null and void]

Great minds...

[advertising guy]

I got a little money.........how much ya wanna bet ????

lmao

[Old Sarge]

Sydney's mother has made up her mind to caucus for the former first lady. "I like her position on family values and health care. And I think it's time we have a female president," Robyn Rieckoff said.

This is an example of what I've said on several threads: the Vagina Voter will cross party lines, and vote for a sister in the WH. Three generations of feminist programming for man-hate, has reached critical mass.

[SomeReasonableDude]

"We ought to be a little classier."

No kidding. The comments on this story are sickening. It's one thing to be passionate and unrelenting in attacks against liberals and liberal policy, and it's another to viciously attack a kid campaigning for her mom. Shame on you, Freepers. Hard to believe there are parents here.

[Red in Blue PA]

Agree. There is enough to criticize without sinking to their level.

[null and void]

Did anybody else see Bill Clinton HUGGING this child? (on FOX)

Great. If that sex offended hugged my daughter...

[nyyankeefan]

Tall and attractive, Chelsea cuts an impressive figure on the campaign trail...

she ain’t called DOG~FACE for nothing.....

this reporter is another a-hole lib/dem clinton lover!!!!

[stinkerpot65]

She definitely looks better with straight hair. Not as pretty as the Bush twins, or my wife, but way better than me.