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Updated: May 30, 2008 06:44 PM EDT Reporting from KTVQ in Billings Chelsea Clinton told supporters in Billings that the country needs to do more with gun control laws, during the final visit on her two day tour campaigning on her mother's behalf in the Magic City. During a question and answer session before seniors and other supporters at the Yellowstone County Council on Aging Office Friday morning, Chelsea said, "We also need to do more with gun control. And my mom supports- naturally what she supported in New York. Which is: we have different gun control laws in New...

(English-language translation) Chelsea Clinton ended her second visit to Puerto Rico yesterday without answering a single question from the Puerto Rican press that followed her to several activities for two days, including a brief visit to Casa Cuna Center in San Juan. Bill and Hillary Clinton's only child started her day yesterday at Sor Isolina Ferré Center in Ponce. She then visited La Fondita de Jesús [soup kitchen], where, accompanied by the press, she arrived during lunchtime when homeless frequent the place to get lunch. She served food while being photographed. Chelsea's last stop was Casa Cuna, a shelter run...

Hillary Clinton plans a campaign visit to Puerto Rico in late May, and may even stop by the island before that, according to her guy in Puerto Rico, Roberto Prats. Chelsea is on the island right now, as is Michelle Obama.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Navy has denied Chelsea Clinton permission to campaign for her mother on a former bombing range on a small Puerto Rican island. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign wanted to use the land Wednesday as a setting to discuss the candidate's clean up plan for the region and call to give some areas to local residents. But Navy spokeswoman Lt. Lara Bollinger said no one is allowed to campaign on federal property. Chelsea Clinton is making her second campaign visit to Puerto Rico in the last three weeks. The U.S. territory has 55 delegates...

I would've used another title for said article, but that's just me. Basically, what it states is that Chelsea Clinton will be in Puerto Rico starting tomorrow Tuesday, 5/13 through the end of the week, and Michelle Obama will be on the Island on Wed., 5/14 and Thurs., 5/15. This is Chelsea Clinton's second trip to the Island since April 30th. Bill Clinton was in Puerto Rico for a day and a half at the beginning of April. No word yet on whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama will visit the Island. 63 delegates are at stake in Puerto Rico....

Rendell joins Chelsea Clinton for 'gay pub crawl' in Phillyby BRETT LIEBERMAN, Of The Patriot-News Saturday April 19, 2008, 4:22 PM Christopher Murray embraces Chelsea Clinton Friday night when the former first daughter campaigned with Gov. Ed Rendell and actor Rob Reiner during a pub crawl of gay bars in Philadelphia. They loved her hair; they smacked her butt; they hooted and hugged Friday night as Chelsea Clinton hit Philadelphia for what campaign aides called a "gay pub crawl." BRETT LIEBERMAN, The Patriot-News "Chelsea, the gays love you!" Jeff Guaracino, 35, shouted as the former first daughter took the stage...

"Here's Chelsea Clinton listening intently last night to her mother debating Barak. And here's Chelsea Clinton hanging out with some 2,000 cross-dressers over the weekend. These shots of the former First Daughter at the 'Red Dress' Party in Portland are burning up the Internet from www.JustOut.com. No word on whether or not Hillary's camp considers this to be a truly 'hairy situation.'" Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9102992554670833423&pr=goog-sl Background and photos: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002759/posts

I was supposed to ask her questions like "where are you most likely to disagree with your mom or your dad?" or "did you ever call your mom at 3 am and how did she react?" But all I could think of was that: "I am...standing in front of Hill and Bill's kid...in a red Mary Kay Cosmetics Collection dress...I'd just bought that day at the Goodwill...how weird is that?" Yes, Chelsea Clinton made it to the infamous "Red Dress" Party. Not to be confused with that other annual "Red Dress" fundraiser, this is the "Red Dress Party," a mondo-alcohol-fueled...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — He stands behind her, guarded and on the lookout. His head is turning left, then right, then left again, the way one watches a tennis match. Philippe Reines could be mistaken for a Secret Service agent for Chelsea Clinton, the former first daughter who is anxious to regain that title. Now, as a crowd surrounds the youngest Clinton at a Marshall University campaign stop, Reines is on the lookout for hangers-on, swooning frat boys and, mostly, looming trouble in the form of microphones, cameras and notepads. When sharp-elbowed television reporters manage to slip through the crowd and...

It's all in the family today as former President Bill Clinton and first daughter Chelsea make whirlwind tours of the Philadelphia region to drum up support for the woman each calls wife or mom, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sen. Clinton is campaigning today in North Carolina and Sen. Barack Obama is in New York. Tomorrow, Obama will begin a cross-state bus tour in Pittsburgh. The caravan ends Wednesday in Philadelphia. Bill Clinton will criss-cross central Pennsylvania today making whistle stops in Pottstown, Reading, Carlisle, Lewistown and State College. After a morning appearance in Pottstown, Clinton will proceed...

Right now the leftwing blogosphere is abuzz about another Hillary Clinton fib that threatens to overshadow her Bosnia sniper fire fairy tale. It has to do with her changing stories about what her daughter Chelsea was doing on the morning of 9/11 in New York. One version had Chelsea ducking inside a Starbucks near the World Trade Center when the attack began. That version was later ditched and Chelsea came out with her own version of what happened that day in first person article written for Talk Magazine. Since that story didn't go online, I purchased a copy of...

You'll recall Hillary Clinton's recent speech in which she attempted to play up her foreign policy experience by recounting her "harrowing" 1996 trip to Bosnia. "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." Well, mainstream media has discounted that account, and such luminaries as comedian Sinbad have chimed in as well. It appears, however, that Clinton caved in too soon when she admitted overstating the dangers, as Barely Political...

INDIANAPOLIS - Chelsea Clinton had a quick retort Tuesday when asked whether her mother's credibility had been hurt during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. "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," Clinton said during a campaign visit for her mother, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton had picked out the male questioner as she wrapped up a question-and-answer session at Butler University. It wasn't immediately clear what statement by the first lady the...

Suddenly a familiar face is popping up all over America - a young woman with a ready smile, a firm grasp of politics and two famous parents. Meet Chelsea Victoria Clinton: the not-so-secret new weapon in her mother's attempt to become the first woman President of the United States. Last week she trekked the campaign trail all over Pennsylvania, the next state in the battle between Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination. At a meeting in the small town of Annville, deep in the heart of the battleground state, she spoke to students at the Lebanon...

BC News' Jennifer Parker and Eloise Harper Report: Sen. Hillary Clinton took a swipe at her daughter's profession today at an economic roundtable discussion at a restaurant in Parma, Ohio, suggesting wealthy investment bankers and hedge fund managers on Wall Street aren't doing real 'work.' The former first lady's daughter, Chelsea Clinton, works for New York-based hedge fund Avenue Capital Group. She previously worked in New York for McKinsey & Company, her first job after graduating with her master's degree from Oxford University.

Chelsea Clinton tells students about her mother's plans for the economy and mortgages. The former first daughter outlines Hillary Rodham Clinton's concern about Darfur and women's rights. She ticks through talking points on electability, health care and the environment. Oh, and she reveals her mother wants grandkids and her father builds their schedule around a popular TV drama, "Grey's Anatomy." Chelsea Clinton has emerged as a top surrogate for her mother as the former first lady has fallen behind Sen. Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now dispatched to college campuses, the long-silent Chelsea Clinton has...

Debate threat. Last week, MSNBC suspended David Shuster for saying, “Doesn’t it seem as if Chelsea [Clinton] is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?” A search through MSNBC’s archives quickly uncovered a glaring double standard: Last September, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann accused President Bush of “pimping General David Petraeus.” It’s the same analogy — these days, the word “pimping” is slang, meaning to use in an unseemly way. Olbermann wasn’t reprimanded, but Shuster was suspended for two weeks and forced to apologize. Why? The most logical answer is that Shuster’s words jeopardized a lucrative opportunity...

................Rae got the one-on-one treatment from the former — and possibly future — first daughter because he is a Democratic National Committee member from Wisconsin and thus a "super delegate," one of the 796 free agents who can back any candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination

Did you hear that Chelsea Clinton has a pimp? You did? Well then thank her mother for spreading the word. It’s astonishing what Hillary Clinton will do to compensate for her own failings. With Queen Inevitable losing ground daily in her nomination battle with Barack Obama, let’s recount the tactics. Cry. Send out Bill to make thinly veiled racist innuendos about Obama. And when you’re still losing, sell out your daughter too. And always, no matter what you do, try to intimidate the media – if only because that’s extremely easy.

SEATTLE - A distasteful comment about Chelsea Clinton by an MSNBC anchor could imperil Hillary Rodham Clinton's participation in future presidential debates on the network, a Clinton spokesman said. In a conference call with reporters, Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson on Friday excoriated MSNBC's David Shuster for suggesting the Clinton campaign had "pimped out" 27-year old Chelsea by having her place phone calls to Democratic Party superdelegates on her mother's behalf. Wolfson called the comment "beneath contempt" and disgusting. "I, at this point, can't envision a scenario where we would continue to engage in debates on that network," he added....

On a conference call Friday afternoon, Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson suggested the campaign might boycott NBC debates given a "pattern" of comments made by MSNBC hosts. Wolfson was referring to Chris Matthews and David Shuster. Shuster on Thursday, suggesting it was "a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea's out there calling up celebrities, saying support my mom, and she's apparently also calling these super delegates," asked, "doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?" Wolfson called the comment "disgusting" and "beneath contempt...It’s the kind of thing that should never...

A distasteful comment about Chelsea Clinton by an MSNBC anchor Thursday could imperil Hillary Rodham Clinton's participation in future presidential debates on the network, a Clinton spokesman said. In a conference call with reporters, Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson Friday excoriated MSNBC's David Shuster for suggesting the Clinton campaign had "pimped out" 27-year old Chelsea by having her place phone calls to Democratic Party superdelegates on her mother's behalf. Wolfson called the comment "beneath contempt" and disgusting. "I, at this point, can't envision a scenario where we would continue to engage in debates on that network," he added. Clinton and...

Appearing on Tucker Carlson's show a few days ago, Hillary fan Lanny Davis observed that Tucker's is "about the only show on MSNBC that consistently allows a Clinton perspective to be expressed." But maybe not so much when, as this evening, David Shuster is the guest host. Employing one of the more graphic metaphors to be heard about a Clinton from the MSM, Shuster tonight claimed that Chelsea Clinton is being "pimped out" by her mother's campaign. The jumping off point was a clip in which three members of The View mentioned having been called by Chelsea on behalf of...

As the daughter of a former president, Chelsea Clinton has long been in the public spotlight. Now campaigning to become the daughter of a future president, the 27-year-old Stanford graduate is finally ready for her close-up. In a move that might have been considered unusual even a few months ago, the extremely private Chelsea spent all day Friday stumping for her mother, Hillary Clinton (who participated in MTV/MySpace's "Closing Arguments" Presidential Dialogue on Saturday), in the land of 441 delegates: the hotly contested battleground state of California. Given the extraordinary amount of effort that went into shielding Chelsea from the...

NEW HAVEN - Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's Election Day visit to New Haven poll workers Tuesday prompted state election officials to caution that politicking within 75 feet of polling sites is against state law. Two television station reporters told state officials Tuesday morning that Clinton brought poll workers coffee and talked with a firefighter at a New Haven precinct when polls opened at 6 a.m., said Adam Joseph, a spokesman for the secretary of the state's office. WTNH-TV reported that Chelsea Clinton immediately went outside after election moderator Nilda Torres announced that the polls were open.

Hillary Clinton has a clear concept for America's future and a carefully laid plan of action for how to get there — and she makes killer banana bread, too. Those were some of the tidbits a crowd of about 150 people learned from Chelsea Clinton — the 27-year-old former first daughter — about her mom at a last-minute campaign stop at the University of Colorado this morning. "I think that my mom's plans are more visionary and more practical than any other candidate, and (she) will tell you how she'll pay for" them, Chelsea Clinton said. -snip- As soon as...

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Now that the Republican primary is over in South Carolina, it's onto the Democrats. Sunday Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton attended service at the same Midlands church, and News 10 was there. If you've ever visited Bible Way Church of Atlas Road, you know there's a lot of singing. Sunday morning the church had two extra voices: Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton. One on one side of the church, one on the other. And the congregation took note. "I don't know. It was kinda awkward," said Evette Brown. "Well to me I think it shows divide...

Chelsea Clinton fielded questions about her mother’s presidential bid last night before an audience of more than 100 young women packed on the floor of the Pi Beta Phi lounge.(snip) She addressed a series of questions about her mother’s campaign stances. “I can tell you what my mom said — that she would end the war tomorrow if she could,” Clinton told a student who asked about troop withdrawals in Iraq. But she said an immediate withdrawal was not fully feasible, as many troops have been killed in convoys. She said that her mother would take 60 days upon entering...

Chelsea Clinton (L),daughter and Dorothy Rodham, mother of the U.S. Presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), listen as Senator Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Williamsburg, Iowa, December 8, 2007.REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES)

CNNÂ’s "from the Left" commentator Paul Begala apparently doesnÂ’t want people to forget that Rush Limbaugh dealt with OxyContin addiction. During a panel discussion of Rudy Giuliani and the possible factor of his family life in his presidential bid, Begala attacked the GOP, accusing that the party "has made a practice of going after peopleÂ’s families," and then singled out Limbaugh for doing this (though Limbaugh has never officially worked for the Republicans). "Not just attacking Bill Clinton, we remember Rush Limbaugh attacking Chelsea Clinton. Maybe it was just the OxyContin talking." Nine months ago, Begala slammed Limbaugh as the...

Here's one sign that Hillary Clinton is the Democratic presidential frontrunner. Reporters are tripping over themselves to convince us how likable and human she is -- strong and yet nurturing. It's the same playbook the media used for Al Gore and John Kerry, both just as stiff, robotic and unlikable then as Hillary is now. So they're portraying Hillary not only as strong and invincible, but also as warm as a down comforter and as sweet as Mrs. Butterworth. The New York Times stands out as a primary transmission belt for the Clinton campaign's effort to melt the ice-queen image....

What is it with Dems and hedge funds? Not long ago we learned that Mr. Two Americas worked for one. Today we find out, in a front-page profile in the New York Times, that Chelsea Clinton also works for a hedge fund. But the Times was strangely shy about divulging the fact. Only those who persisted through 18 paragraphs and 977 words were rewarded with that noteworthy nugget. And even when the Times did get around to informing us, it managed to find a sympathetic spin to place on Chelsea's decision to work for what many liberals like to portray...

Asked which parent Chelsea Clinton most resembles, friends tick through the mother-daughter similarities. There is the habit of pre-empting questions by asking lots of them. The passionate interest in health care. The tendency to sound a bit scripted when talking about policy, even in private. The way both borrowed on family contacts to establish post-White House careers, but won over skeptical colleagues with their diligence and enthusiasm.And if her mother, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, manages to become the first female president of the United States, Chelsea Clinton could be in a historic, head-spinning position of her own: the first first...

As noted here, MSNBC's John Ridley went off on Al Gore this morning, suggesting he should hug his kid rather than the planet, save his son, not ice caps. But over at NBC's "Today", it was a more predictable MSM response, as the show sought to downplay the Gore incident by pointing to Republican politicians whose kids have caused trouble, while praising Chelsea Clinton as unusually mature. Introducing the segment, Meredith Vieira shifted the spotlight from Gore's situation to the broader issues. 'TODAY' CO-HOST MEREDITH VIEIRA: And now to politicians and their children. It's tough being a parent, and as...

Democrat John Edwards said Tuesday that he worked for a hedge fund between presidential campaigns to learn about financial markets and their relationship to poverty—and to make money too. In an interview with The Associated Press, the former North Carolina senator said his yearlong, part-time position with Fortress Investment Group helped his understanding of the connection but he has more to learn. Edwards has made eradicating poverty a focus of his second White House bid. Edwards, a multimillionaire after years as a trial lawyer, would not disclose how much he got paid for a year of consulting beginning in October...

Chelsea Clinton was a student at Stanford when her father left the White House. We all remember how the New York Times famously phoned her at college to ask how she felt about her father's affair with Monica Lewinsky and how it might have affected her relationship with him. Or not. But that's apparently what the New York Times did when it came to Rudy Giuliani's college-sophomore son, Andrew. In Noticeably Absent From the Giuliani Campaign: His Children,Times reporters Russ Buettner and Richard Perez-Pena report on their "telephone interview," with Andrew, a sophomore and member of the golf team...

When her father Bill ran for the presidency in 1992, Chelsea Clinton was a gawky 12-year-old with braces and a mop of crinkly hair, ill at ease in front of the cameras. Some 15 years later, her mother Hillary has assigned her daughter a crucial role in the family's latest White House campaign as the former First Lady hopes to firm up support among women voters with a "mum strategy". Standing together: Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Miss Clinton, 26, who now works for a Wall Street hedge fund, has not appeared alongside her mother since the New York senator launched...

By the NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Friday, Dec. 8, 2006 4:32 p.m. EST Future Chelsea Clinton In-Law in Jail Rumors have been heating up that former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky are heading for the altar. If true, the father of the groom would likely be conspicuous by his absence – he’s behind bars. Ed Mezvinsky, a former Iowa Congressman, was sentenced in January 2003 to nearly seven years in jail after pleading guilty to 31 fraud-related counts. After leaving Congress, Mezvinsky, now 65, moved to the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife...

Speculation that Chelsea Clinton is engaged to boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky has been the buzz for some time but if they do make it to the altar before November 2008, Mezvinsky's pop won't make it. Unless of course they are married in a Federal prison. ABC notes that Ed Mezvinsky, a former Iowa Congressman, is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud after getting caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams. This should play out well on Hillary's 2008 campaign.

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton has taken a job with Avenue Capital Group, a $12 billion hedge fund based in New York City, according to the New York Daily News. Clinton, 26, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), was previously a consultant at McKinsey & Co., which she joined in 2003. Avenue Capital Group was co-founded by Marc Lasry, who has contributed to campaigns for Democratic politicians including Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Bill Bradley and John Kerry, Reuters reports. Lasry has also contributed lesser amounts to campaigns for President George W....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton has joined Avenue Capital Group, a $12 billion hedge fund manager whose founder has contributed to many Democratic Party campaigns, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. Clinton, 26, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has taken a post at the New York-based fund manager in an undisclosed capacity, the source said. Clinton, who graduated from Stanford University in 2001 and studied philosophy at Oxford University, most recently worked at consultants McKinsey & Co. from 2003. Avenue which focuses on distressed...

Publishers of "the world's first conservative comic book" have created a hilarious political satire called "Libarro World," in which a Berkeley professor's flawed duplication ray created imperfect pro-President Bush copies of Sen. John Kerry (a pro-military warrior), Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (a sultry anti-feminist), Howard Dean (an unexcitable ultragenius) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (a distinguished teetotaler). In the series, the real four Democratic leaders set out to destroy each of their conservative clones.

Conservative comic book publisher of Liberality For All, (which features bio-mechanically altered Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North fighting oppressive Liberals in an alternate U.N. dominated reality), is donating all proceeds from their website to victims in Bantul, Indonesia.

The French government repeated Monday that it never paid for the release of its citizens held hostage in Iraq, denying a report in The Times of London that France, Germany and Italy paid millions of dollars in secret ransom. "As French authorities indicated at the moment of the release of the hostages, there has been no payment of ransom," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei told The Associated Press. On its Web site, the British daily said documents held by the Iraqi security forces showed the three European countries paid $45 million for the release of nine hostages. According to the...

After telling an audience that young people today "think work is a four-letter word," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she apologized to her daughter. "I said, 'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to convey the impression that you don't work hard,"' Clinton said Sunday in a commencement address at Long Island University. "I just want to set the bar high, because we are in a competition for the future." Clinton spoke to more than 2,000 graduates days after she criticized young people at a gathering of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. There she said young people have a sense...

reporter once said that Bill Clinton had only one chance to leave his trace in history. The chance solely depends upon his daughter The Americans have been watching Chelsea Clinton's stormy private life for a rather long period already. Living in the White House and studying in elite universities could all be made null and void after the father's confession of adultery in a televised addressed to the nation. The parents carefully kept the daughter out of the public eye. Chelsea moved into the White House on the day of her father's inauguration on January 20, 1993 when she was...

Chelsea is Delhi's trophy guest of the moment as she says 'Namaste India' in style. We brings you the lady's itinerary.While walking down the Santushti Complex, Delhi, Chelsea Clinton looks like a Princess of Style. In the city for a personal visit, Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter is wearing a stylish and sexy look. And like the rest of the world,we too are suitably impressed by the transition of Chelsea into a sex symbol. Even Vanity Fair magazine recently commented on how easily Chelsea Clinton has transformed into the world's sexiest and most flamboyant woman, and how she is the...