"Eh . . . What's up, Doc?
Posted on 12/31/2007 9:29:51 AM PST by Cagey
VINTON, Iowa -- It's one thing for Hillary Clinton's campaign to turn down interview requests for the candidate's daughter, Chelsea. But can't a 9-year old reporter catch a break?
Sydney Rieckoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and "kid reporter" for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they've campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response.
"Do you think your dad would be a good 'first man' in the White House?" Rieckoff asked, but Chelsea brushed her question aside.
"I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute," Chelsea told the pint-sized journalist.
Such is the paradox of Chelsea as she campaigns across Iowa in the closing days before the state's caucuses Jan. 3.
Tall and attractive, Chelsea cuts an impressive figure on the campaign trail; she plunges enthusiastically into the crowd after her mother's speeches, shaking hands and posing for pictures while asking, "Are you going to caucus for my mom?"
But onstage, Chelsea never speaks; she stands next to her mother and applauds but utters not a single sentence and doesn't even say hello. And reporters covering the campaign have been put on notice that Chelsea is not available to speak to them. An aide follows the former first daughter as she works the crowd, shushing reporters who approach her and try to ask any questions.
Famously protective of their daughter's privacy, Bill and Hillary Clinton have taken pains to shield Chelsea from the harsh glare and rough edges of presidential politics. She stayed largely absent from her mother's campaign until December, when she made her first visit to Iowa.
For her part, Sydney looked a bit crestfallen after Chelsea turned her away. But luckily for Hillary Clinton, Sydney's mother has made up her mind to caucus for the former first lady.
"I like her position on family values and health care. And I think it's time we have a female president," Robyn Rieckoff said.
Thank God I live with one.
For the past number of years I have been her best client as I haven’t aged gracefully or willingly.
Happy New Years to your and yours.
"Eh . . . What's up, Doc?
OMG! What a great line!
My "standing date" for New Year's Eve is with two of the cutest little girls ever created in God's Great World. I get a slumber party with my granddaughters!
Didn’t fall far from the tree did she?
We all have photographs of ourselves that aren’t very flattering because most of us don’t live in the “glamor shot” mode. I never would get glamor shots done as if someone saw me later in everyday life, they’d just ask “you been sick or something?” - My BIL took a bad picture of me a few years ago at a family gathering; he then made matters worse by putting it on the computer and doing a “weirdo warp” number on it. I noticed that he didn’t do that with everyone’s picture and I think he was just keeping a collection of them of the people he didn’t like. I decided since then to as much as I could limit the amount of time I spent around him, and when his and my husband’s mother is gone he doesn’t have to worry about me being a captive audience for his rudeness any more at all. Not intending to be vindictive, it’s just that if it was a “joke” it was a cruel and spiteful one. (He placed the photos in a photo album and that’s when I noticed he had been very selective in who he chose to do that to. Passive / Aggressive anyone?)
Chelsea has the same charming way with words as her mom.
and madeline albright
No, but she did manage to hit every branch on the way down...
Either Chelsea has her orders from Momma beast of is such a dim bulb she can’t answer questions off the cuff.
Probably both.
Spew garbage, deny responsibility, move on as if nothing happened. The daughter got the trait from both sides.
Charming.
Excellent!
It’s amazing what a gallon of makeup will do! The fact is, she got the worst features from both parents! Homelier than a bag of aresholes...as my dear old mother used to say.
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Thank you N&V!!
When you're 27, that's the best you will ever look.
Have not heard that kind of common sense statement since my mother passed away.
Happy New Years to you and yours.
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