Chelsea in Oxford--Special Report

The Nation ^ | 12/04/2001 | Daniel Swift

[putupon]

How come it took her alway the way to grad school overseas to rebel against her parents? most kids do at home when still in high school.

[J. Semper Paratus]

Come on... don't you know that Vince Foster is her daddy?

[Grampa Dave]

In her re written story of where she was when 9/11 happened, she did not agree with where Hilldebeast said she was.

Somewhere in her rambling comments, she commented that she wondered if the 9/11 disaster might have been brought about due to the massive tax cuts! That part agreed with Hildebeast. Since I never memorize anything she says, we need someone to repost the article/thread for her exact words!

[Prodigal Son]

I say give her a chance- albeit a very skeptical one. She is at that age in life when many people decide exactly what it is they want to be and be about. Maybe she will take a long, hard, 9/11 induced look at her life and the "values" her parents stand for and decide it doesn't add up. You never know, she might turn out ok. Hell, she may even vote for Dubya in 2004, although I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

[billhilly]

Sounds like Chelsea is a closet FReeper.

This reminds me of the old conflict of watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new car.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Hmmm... she shocks her parents by attending college all the way across the country. (Granted, that may be so she can have female friends over without worrying about her daddy jumping them.) She never looked happier than the day after Clinton admitted his relationship with Lewinsky. Now this....

I wonder if those SF books I once read about her buying were by Jerry Pournelle or Robert Heinlein....

She may end up being a Republican yet. I hope she does. It would be the ultimate personal rejection of the Bill&Hill show.

[independentmind]

Ms. Clinton has been widely feted in Britain. Tatler magazine named her as one of England's ten most eligible women. But the anti-Americanism she has found in Oxford is not simply snobbery.

I know an American who was educated as boy in England but attended college in the U.S. After graduation, he spent a year in London with one of the big Wall Street investment houses. He would very much disagree that the anti-Americanism isn't a case of snobbery. A lot of upper class British people, are actually quite snobbish, especially if you are Catholic and have an Irish last name.

[isthisnickcool]

Chelsea studying at Oxford.

[Grampa Dave]

Yeh, I just heard that Hilldebeast agreed with GW re the tribunals.

So what is happening with the Clintoonian women, Hilldebeast and Chelsea!

[germanshepherd]

This is probably "all show" to help Mommy Dearest with her future presidential bid.

Hate to say it, but this makes the most sense. Wouldn't it be great if we could just accept her at her word as being sincere in this? How unfortunate that we can't. She's a Clinton.

[CommiesOut]

She also said something about Humpty Dumpty.
Sweet girl.

[Dr. Octagon]

So true!

[dingram]

None of this would be happening to Chelsea if it were not for Bush's tax cut.

[jimt]

Tatler magazine named her as one of England's ten most eligible women.

Somehow I have a hard time featuring Howdy-Doody as one of anyplace's most eligible women.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I don't know.... She had a psychopathic, pathological liar and sex maniac for a father and a humorless control freak for a mother. If that isn't groundworks for rebellion and rejection of one's parents' values, I don't know what is.

[Grampa Dave]

Yep, her rambling personal story had Humpty Dumpty in it. After the Humpty Dumpty remark and the tax cut remark, I basically round filed it in my old mine!

[JohnGalt]

Funny that the folks over at The Nation are glossing over the established fact that Bill Clinton was keeping tabs on the anti-war movement at Oxford for the CIA.

[JohnGalt]

Funny that the folks over at The Nation are glossing over the established fact that Bill Clinton was keeping tabs on the anti-war movement at Oxford for the CIA.

[uvular]

I think Bill signed Chelsea up for one full extra year of security and some others like El Reno, got an extra 6 months.

[TopQuark]

Yeah, it's not just snobbery; it's also stupidity.

A disagreement with this or that American policy may come from being ill informed. Anti-Americanism is, however, from envy. It is for that reason that is even more widespread and more dangerous.