Posted on 04/30/2018 6:24:50 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The Clinton family has made sporadic and often subdued appearances in the 18 months (538 days) since Hillary Clinton lost her presidential election. But we're about to see a lot more of them this spring.
Why it matters: This family has been on the national stage for 26 years — all or most of the lifetime of anyone under 50. Chelsea Clinton, now 38, was 11 when her father, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, announced his entry into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in October 1991. He was 45 then; is 71 now.
Be smart: As the 2020 presidential race ramps up, plenty of top Democrats we talk to would prefer new energy and faces to Clinton nostalgia/redemption.
What to watch...
Longtime Clinton supporters last week received an invitation offering access to the family (the green invitation features photos of Bill, Hillary and Chelsea) at a Clinton Foundation benefit on May 24 in New York, at prices ranging from $2,500 ("Friend") for cocktail party and dinner, up to $100,000 ("Chair") for "Leadership Reception for two, a premium table of ten, program recognition as Gala Chair and invitations to the Clinton Foundation Annual Briefing." The foundation's streamlined mission: "create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service."
Hillary Clinton this morning will lead the first meeting of her Onward Together political group, on New York's Upper East Side. She and Howard Dean will welcome 11 partner organizations for a day of sessions "about harnessing the energy and activism post-election." In the afternoon, the groups have the chance to meet with 150 donors. Last year, OT had 33,000 donors and gave over $1 million to partner groups. The group says that figure will be higher for midterms this year.
President Clinton publishes a novel on June 4, co-authored with thriller writer James Patterson, "The President Is Missing" (preorder link). The two will appear together at BookCon, a massive booksellers' convention, at the Javits Center in New York on June 3. Tickets are already sold out. Then the pair have a multi-city book tour in June — together and separately. An eight-part series comes to Showtime in 2019.
Chelsea Clinton is a prolific tweeter. She has been repeatedly critical of the campaign memoir by the N.Y. Times' Amy Chozick, "Chasing Hillary," shouting out to people who comment on the book: "Hi Ana Marie! ... Thank you Max ... Hi Dan! ... Hi Katy! ... Hi Jeet! ... Hi Amy! ... Hi @amychozick!"
The kind of tide that strands the trash and dead fish on the beach.
“Don’t go away mad. Just go away.”
A wave of disastrous failure and judgment is coming to them.
Hopefully, it's goodbye.
Pathetic attempt to remain relevant
Old enough to run for President. You know she will, after a rotation through another sinecure or two and carpetbagging her way to a seat in Congress for a "one-and-out".
The only question is when that process starts.
And long after you are gone, your children will be wondering why she doesn't just get off the stage.
[Hillary Clinton this morning will lead the first meeting of her Onward Together political group, on New York’s Upper East Side.]
That’s the place for it. Another grift. If the national Dems thought they would be rid of them, its just the beginning.
The Clintons live for the spotlight (and the money). I hope they suck the oxygen out of whoever decides to run but more likely they want to establish themselves as kingmakers.
I’m tired of all the suspense. Why don’t we just anoint Chelsea President for Life already.
Wonder how many Haitians will be at the Clinton Foundation benefit dinner and cocktail party on May 24?
Clintons try to out-Jeb, Jeb.
Other than some hard core Clinton supporters within the DNC, they are done.
Blowing 750M and out spending your opponent 10-1 on an election and still loosing will be remembered for a long time
the whining loser: the gift that keeps on giving.
We have been hoping for a fauxahauntis or sanders (d) selection.
But if hiLIARy runs again, we KNOW God has not completely turned away from us. Such a gift would not have been seen since the 15 Commandments tablets.
oy vey.
Raising money for what?
No doubt they are angling to give Chelsea an office. Maybe Congress?
This is gonna be like an episode of wicked tuna. A pissah.
“Blowing 750M and out spending your opponent 10-1 “
She should hire them Russians that blew her out of the water with $100,000. They got a way better bang for their buck.
As reprehensible as the Clintons remain, the novel by Bill and Patterson may be a good read.
And here is hoping with the new wave comes a deadly riptide, forever pulling the entire cabal out to sea.
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