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Chelsea Clinton enters political arena by stumping for Kerry (SHE'S NOW IN PLAY!)
Jacksonville.com ^ | 10/30/04 | KEN THOMAS

Posted on 10/30/2004 8:58:42 PM PDT by Libloather

Chelsea Clinton enters political arena by stumping for Kerry
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Story last updated at 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 30, 2004
By KEN THOMAS
Associated Press Writer

KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, shielded from the public during her years in the White House, delivered her first political speeches Saturday as she campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

The only child of former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said she was "a little nervous" about making her first speech in Tampa. That was followed by appearances in the Orlando area and suburban Fort Lauderdale.

"I'm not quite an old pro but thankfully, I come from a family of old pros, and hopefully I'll do them proud," Clinton said.

Clinton has rarely spoken in public, even after leaving Washington.

Weeks short of her 13th birthday when her father was first inaugurated in 1993, her parents took great pains to guard her privacy. Only in 2000 did Clinton take her first steps into the spotlight, accompanying the her father at events while her mother campaigned for Senate.

SNIP

Caroline Kennedy said Clinton was a person of "grace and dignity."

"If you think her parents are smart, you should talk to her."

(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arena; chelsea; clinton; effin; enters; hillary; impeached
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To: Libloather

41 posted on 10/30/2004 10:28:04 PM PDT by w6ai5q37b
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To: MJY1288

Is she holding onto a young Billy Jeff?


42 posted on 10/30/2004 10:29:29 PM PDT by Libloather (Didya ever notice - NONE of Effin' Kerry's policies pass the Global Smell Test...)
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To: Westlander

Caroline was referring to Chelsea, I'd guess.


43 posted on 10/30/2004 10:31:58 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: Libloather
Chelsea Clinton, shielded from the public during her years in the White House,

Really?

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.

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"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.

44 posted on 10/30/2004 10:32:27 PM PDT by cyncooper (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: Lijahsbubbe; Libloather; aculeus; dighton; Constitution Day; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim
Am I correct in assuming nobody will be calling for pictures on this thread?


45 posted on 10/30/2004 10:32:40 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Libloather
Damn! She is going to get Kerry votes from the "can eat corn through a picket fence" crowd!

Doomed! We are doomed!

46 posted on 10/30/2004 10:33:01 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Only dummies play poker with George W. Bush.)
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To: Libloather

And I see Caroline Kennedy is not going to be happy until she's ticked off at least half the American population.


47 posted on 10/30/2004 10:33:34 PM PDT by cyncooper (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: isthisnickcool

LOL!!!!


48 posted on 10/30/2004 10:35:24 PM PDT by luvie (WE WILL NOT WAVER; WE WILL NOT TIRE; WE WILL NOT FALTER; AND WE WILL NOT FAIL!!! RE-ELECT GWB!!!)
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To: cyncooper
You can't blame Chelsea.

Oh, yes I can...

49 posted on 10/30/2004 10:36:06 PM PDT by Libloather (Didya ever notice - NONE of Effin' Kerry's policies pass the Global Smell Test...)
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To: usaproud

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.


50 posted on 10/30/2004 10:36:38 PM PDT by cyncooper (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: w6ai5q37b

Isn'lt April 22, Adolph Hitler's birthday???


51 posted on 10/30/2004 10:37:16 PM PDT by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens.)
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To: Libloather

Thanks for the side by side comparison of Chelsea and Amy Carter.

52 posted on 10/30/2004 10:40:03 PM PDT by Smoote
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To: Libloather
Everyone should give poor Chelsea a break.

The poor girl only had christmas tree decorations to play with as a child.

53 posted on 10/30/2004 10:40:54 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference)
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To: Libloather

Web Hubble must be proud of his daughter.


54 posted on 10/30/2004 10:40:57 PM PDT by MonroeDNA (“I feel more comfortable with Soviet intellectuals than I do with American businessmen.” --Soros)
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To: Libloather

BTW, where's the "Schlossberg" in Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg.

Did she get divorced or just drop hubby's last name?


55 posted on 10/30/2004 10:43:27 PM PDT by cyncooper (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: cyncooper
"Oh, and let's not forget that 9/11 had Chelsea agonizing over tax cuts."

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?

56 posted on 10/30/2004 10:45:13 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: Thinkin' Gal

57 posted on 10/30/2004 10:49:31 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (If it weren't for double standards liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: Libloather
That makes her ugly butt "fair game"

/sarcasm

58 posted on 10/30/2004 10:50:35 PM PDT by GeronL (FREE KERRY'S SCARY bumper sticker .......... http://www.kerrysscary.com/bumper_sticker.php)
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To: Denver Ditdat

The difference is that Jenna and Barbara are republican babes...

And Chelsea is a DemoCrap dog.


59 posted on 10/30/2004 10:53:46 PM PDT by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: clee1

Can anyone do a comparison of young Barbara Bush and Maggot-face?


60 posted on 10/30/2004 11:00:01 PM PDT by digger48
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