Posted on 10/30/2004 8:58:42 PM PDT by Libloather
Is she holding onto a young Billy Jeff?
Caroline was referring to Chelsea, I'd guess.
From September 2000 (exerpt):
London's Sunday Times reported over the weekend that certain diplomats have expressed irritation that the president is involving Chelsea in delicate affairs of state.
"The first sighting of the new Chelsea Clinton was three months ago during a state visit to Washington by Morocco's King Mohammed VI," the Sunday Times reported.
~snip~
"It was the first time the 20-year-old Stanford University student had stood in for her mother, Hillary, at an official function. . . .
"Chelsea clearly enjoyed the experience. After a series of public appearances at her father's side, however, her prominent role as inseparable presidential escort is beginning to prompt questions about the level of her security clearance and access to confidential information.
"Chelsea has done much more than merely deliberate the burning issues of American foreign policy: she has been present for every big decision the president has made since June."
In fact, Chelsea has been photographed in intense conversations with Mrs. Albright and Sandy Berger, her father's national-security adviser, as if she was part of the small presidential detail dispatched to assist the president on his visit to Colombia, where he talked up the $1.3 billion American assist to Colombia's bumbling war on drugs.
A week earlier, Chelsea was seen huddling with Mr. Berger and top aides in Nigeria, and the White House, a little embarrassed, had to shoot down accounts that she played "an active role" in American efforts to halt the tribal warfare between the Tutsis in the government and the Hutu rebels in Burundi. She was said to have worked with her father aboard Air Force One, rewriting his speech to the Nigerian parliament.
Before that, Israeli officials complained that Chelsea had inappropriately monopolized the dinner-table conversation between her father and Ehud Barak, the Israeli prime minister, during the unsuccessful Camp David talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
You can't blame Chelsea. The president needs a hostess, his wife having abandoned the White House to pursue a job of her own, and daughters have filled in for presidents before. And what serious college junior, who after all has learned more than a sophomore, wouldn't take advantage of such an opportunity to live history while her friends at Stanford are only studying it. Chelsea is not exactly Amy Carter, who took her book of tales of Peter Rabbit to table at a state dinner at the White House. But you can't blame diplomats and officials of other governments, either, for feeling irritation at not knowing exactly what to make of it.
The Clintons know, of course, that criticism of Chelsea will be muted, if there is criticism at all. By taking her public, after guarding her childhood privacy so well for so long, they are creating a valuable asset, an inner tube thrown to a drowning woman, for her mother in New York.
~snip~
Spare me the "I've just minded my own business, leading a private life" garbage.
Oh, and let's not forget that 9/11 had Chelsea agonizing over tax cuts.
Doomed! We are doomed!
And I see Caroline Kennedy is not going to be happy until she's ticked off at least half the American population.
LOL!!!!
Oh, yes I can...
I have no problem with her campaigning. My problem is with the media cultivating the myth that she was "sheltered" and led a private life when she did not.
Isn'lt April 22, Adolph Hitler's birthday???
Thanks for the side by side comparison of Chelsea and Amy Carter.
The poor girl only had christmas tree decorations to play with as a child.
Web Hubble must be proud of his daughter.
BTW, where's the "Schlossberg" in Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg.
Did she get divorced or just drop hubby's last name?
And let us not forget that HILLARY! tried to manufacture a harrowing, narrow escape for Chelsea on 9/11/01 and Chelsea - the non-pro - informed the world she was out having breakfast at the time and never in ANY danger.
I wonder if Chelsea remembers that, or if she'll try parroting HILLARY!'s harrowing work of bad foction during her stumo speeshes for Hanoi Johnnie Boy?
/sarcasm
The difference is that Jenna and Barbara are republican babes...
And Chelsea is a DemoCrap dog.
Can anyone do a comparison of young Barbara Bush and Maggot-face?
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