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Chelsea Clinton Snubs 9-Year-Old
WKMG TV NEWS ^ | 12-31-2007

Posted on 12/31/2007 9:29:51 AM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barf; beautiful; biatch; canine; chelsea; clintonian; clintons2008; elistist; goodlooking; hotstuff; ia2008; joancrawford; rude; shillary; snub; wirehangers
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To: Cagey

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


41 posted on 12/31/2007 9:46:57 AM PST by beefree (Righteous in authority, people rejoice:wicked rule, people mourn. Prov 29:2)
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To: xtinct

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


42 posted on 12/31/2007 9:47:44 AM PST by yield 2 the right (New England Patriots: The New Standard of Excellence!!!)
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To: xtinct

Great minds...


43 posted on 12/31/2007 9:47:48 AM PST by null and void (Don't taunt the tiger...)
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To: null and void

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

lmao


44 posted on 12/31/2007 9:48:23 AM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills namedo us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: Cagey
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.

45 posted on 12/31/2007 9:48:42 AM PST by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: stinkerpot65
"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.
46 posted on 12/31/2007 9:48:54 AM PST by SomeReasonableDude (Back it up.)
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To: stinkerpot65

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


47 posted on 12/31/2007 9:49:09 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: beefree
Did anybody else see Bill Clinton HUGGING this child? (on FOX)

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

48 posted on 12/31/2007 9:49:10 AM PST by null and void (Don't taunt the tiger...)
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To: Cagey

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!!!!


49 posted on 12/31/2007 9:49:41 AM PST by nyyankeefan
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To: Tax-chick

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


50 posted on 12/31/2007 9:50:19 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: BlessedBeGod

Little brat’s lucky Chelsea didn’t smack her down. And “attractive”, not in this lifetime.


51 posted on 12/31/2007 9:50:21 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: advertising guy

Hmmmmm. I haven’t had any income from any source yet this year.

How about $100.00?


52 posted on 12/31/2007 9:50:31 AM PST by null and void (Don't taunt the tiger...)
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To: SomeReasonableDude

99% of the time I agree w/ you but they are shoving Chelsea in our face.......and this little queen disses a 9 yr old ?

no pass from me.......


53 posted on 12/31/2007 9:50:52 AM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills namedo us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: stinkerpot65
Well, she’ no supermodel, but she looks OK to me.

As I said, she's presentable. I've also seen her in person and she is unremarkable.

I'm not. I just think it's silly for journalists to make bold comments about the personal attractiveness of political figures. Like the comments about how "sexy" Obama is.

You hear the same stuff about the Bush daughters from the hyenas on the Democratic side.

No, what you hear from the other side is that the Bush daughters are retarded, drunken, drug-addicted whores.

I've never seen a FReeper describe Chelsea as mentally handicapped, or a whore or as someone with a drug problem.

Yet one or more of those epithets is what I usually see when the opposition comments on the Bush girls.

54 posted on 12/31/2007 9:50:56 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the JuConstitution?)
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To: null and void

exactly... :o)


55 posted on 12/31/2007 9:51:02 AM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: wastedyears

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER.


56 posted on 12/31/2007 9:51:33 AM PST by FES0844 (FES0844)
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To: whitedog57; xtinct
LOL......this is the pic I had in mind when I read howdy doody........

.don't ask me why.

57 posted on 12/31/2007 9:52:14 AM PST by tioga (Happy New Year!)
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To: swain_forkbeard
Did anyone see that Gawd Awful picture of her on Drudge yesterday.

I wonder if she has the same lousy temperament of her mammy.

You know Hellary,who's interracial marriage of a white woman to the first Black president, Philandering Willy Jeff set the Coon dogs to gossiping.

Down home in Arkansas old trailer trash Clem the moonshiner would say the Clinton's don’t think their fecal matter stinks.

58 posted on 12/31/2007 9:52:25 AM PST by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Bill Clinton and his dogs.

Which one is the dog?

59 posted on 12/31/2007 9:52:27 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20 (Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for. WILL ROGERS)
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To: null and void

O.T. got the movie about the patent done.....7 minutes
and legal as the constitution.........woohhoooooo


60 posted on 12/31/2007 9:52:38 AM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills namedo us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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