Posted on 03/30/2008 12:20:51 PM PDT by kingattax
Campaigning For Mom In N. Carolina, Clinton Says She Was Sheltered From Chauvinism
(AP) Chelsea Clinton said Saturday that she didn't realize how much sexism remained in the United States until she noticed the issue at recent campaign stops for her mother.
"I didn't really get how much sexism there still was in our country until I was at a rally with my mom in New Hampshire, and someone came up to me and said, 'I just can't see a woman being commander in chief,"' Clinton said during a stop in Research Triangle Park.
She also noted another New Hampshire rally that was disrupted by men who stood up and told Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to "Iron my shirt." And she quietly questioned why some people find humor in a nutcracker doll that looks like her mother.
The younger Clinton said that she didn't understand that sexism still existed because she has always been supported by both the men and women in her family.
"I didn't realize that that wasn't expected yet in the rest of our country," Clinton said. "I have been so profoundly more grateful than I have ever been over the past few months for my parents because of that."
Clinton spoke at the Young Democrats of North Carolina convention in Research Triangle Park - an event that normally draws only appearances for statewide races. On Saturday, campaign officials for both Obama and Clinton sent surrogates to speak, seeking support ahead of the state's May 6 primary. Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker appeared on behalf of Obama.
On several occasions during her speech, Clinton referred to the North American Free Trade Agreement - a pact often blamed for the acceleration of textile and manufacturing job losses across the state - and explained why her former president father and aspiring president mother differed on the issue.
An audience member who said his mother lost her job when it was shipped to Mexico asked Clinton how he could reconcile the passage of NAFTA under the Bill Clinton administration with Hillary Rodham Clinton's opposition of the free trade agreement.
"We don't agree on everything as a family," Chelsea Clinton said. "I agree with my mother on most things - not everything. I agree with my father on most things - not everything. My mother and father agree on most things - not everything."
Clinton, along with rival Barack Obama, repeatedly criticized NAFTA during her successful Ohio primary campaign. She has said she would renegotiate trade agreements and end tax breaks for corporations that send jobs out of the country.
The 1994 landmark NAFTA pact opened trade with Canada and Mexico.
Even if she could pass the LSAT, imagine trying to get through 3 years of lawschool with all that surgery to your face going on.
And no, Chelsea, I cannot see your mother as Commander in Chief.
Not even of F-Troop.
“Amen”
truth funnier than fiction........
“her undergraduate thesis topic was her father’s mediation of the 1998 Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland.”
I bet some left wing wacko prof was in heaven mentoring this one
Under grad in History.
I LOATHE women who use their sex when they need it, and cry sexism when it suits them. Let’s all remember, THIS is the woman who cried poor woman when the wimpy rick Lazio “INTRUDED IN HER PERSONAL SPACE.” AARRGHHHHHH I hate this woman.
She is 28 years old.
dim bulb
Chelsea’s undergrad degree was in history from Stanford. Then she did a master’s in International Relations at Oxford. We need someone who can get hold of her undergrad thesis in Stanford’s library (if it hasn’t already been deep-sixed) because she wrote it on “her father’s mediation of the 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement” — it would be most interesting to learn if this ‘inside’ account written in 2001 gave any role at all to Shrillary, because surely Chelsea enjoyed plenty of access to her father and his advisers in writing this tome:
Monday, 1 October, 2001, 15:50 GMT 16:50 UK
Chelsea Clinton arrives in Oxford
Chelsea graduated this summer from Stanford University in California where she majored in history.
As part of her degree, she completed a 150-page thesis on her father’s mediation of the 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1572756.stm
Clinton attended Stanford University. She had declared a major in chemistry with an interest in medicine before switching to history after two years.[6] In 2001, she graduated with distinction from Stanford; her undergraduate thesis topic was her father’s mediation of the 1998 Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland.[3] She went on to earn a Master’s degree at University College, Oxford, in international relations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Clinton
Please see #109 — can anyone think of a Freeper who might be near Palo Alto, CA and able to try to get a look at or a copy of Chelsea’s undergrad thesis on the Irish peace process?
It would be incredibly revealing of another Hillary fabrication if Chelsea’s 150 page account written in 2001, presumably with plenty of help from her father and his colleagues, did not match Hillary’s recent fantasy.
Of course, it would not be meaningful if Chelsea’s thesis DID support Hillary’s account since that could just be Clintonista spin in formation...... but think how revealing it would be if Chelsea had written 150 pages on the topic for the Stanford history dept. and did NOT attribute a central role to Hillary? That would put both of them on the spot for a huge credibility problem and they could no longer get away with answering “none of your business” (well they might try, but a lot of people could finally see through it).
Here’s an article which confirms that Chelsea interviewed her father (no mention of her mother!!!!) for her undergrad thesis — I’m sure he also put her in touch with various former colleagues for the subject.........
“In 2001, Chelsea delivered her 167-page thesis on the Northern Ireland peace process (for which she interviewed, among others, her father) and set her sights on Britain’s Oxford University where would pursue studies in International Relations.”
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/24/content_351366.htm
http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/tombraider/35.html
`She is very bright. She's extremely well-informed, as someone would expect. She's very well-read. She's read things I'd be surprised an undergraduate had read,'' said her thesis adviser, Professor Jack Rakove, Pulitzer Prize- winning author of ``Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.''
Her honors history thesis was on the role of her father's administration in mediating the peace agreement in Northern Ireland.
``She did talk at some length with her father and some members of the administration, but for the most part relied on the documentary record,'' Rakove said. ``It was a fairly careful examination of how the peace talks unfolded in the 1990s and the American role in them.''
no mention of hellary. isn't that interesting ?
Thanks. She is what Israel needs today.
Sorry E, I don’t know a soul in that area.
I got one as a Christmas present ... was my favorite gift!
I am not buying that anyone came up to her (or got within 100’ feet of her for that matter) and said they couldn’t see a woman for CiC. Somehow that just doesn’t ring true.
“racism card trumps sexism card”
OH you didn’t...
But then again, every time a black man got lynched, a white woman is usually the cause of it... what can I say.
ping
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