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Madame President Clinton? Chelesa Clinton That Is
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ABC News' Ed O'Keefe Reports: Perhaps there will be a Madame President Clinton after all. No, not Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. How about former first daughter and active campaigner Chelsea Clinton?
"If you asked me (if Chelsea would run for office) before Iowa, I would have said, 'No way. She is too allergic to anything we do.' But she is really good at it," former President Bill Clinton tells PEOPLE magazine in their latest issue, hitting newsstands Friday.
In the PEOPLE exclusive, Clinton called his daughter's "emergence" the "second best thing" of the campaign, after his wife's "ability to endure in the face of all the blows that have been rained on her: outspent, dismissed, denigrated, declared dead...when I met her, I found that in her personal relationships she lacked self-confidence and was painfully shy. She is having more fun now than at the beginning. If you look at her, she seems perfectly relaxed, doesn't she?"
When asked what he's learned about Chelsea's political skills, Clinton told PEOPLE, "It all changed after Iowa. She realized her mother lost Iowa 100 percent because of younger voters. She was upset, bawled, went to her employer and said, 'Look, you got to let me go or give me an indefinite leave of absence. I'm not letting my mother go down like this.'"
The former president strongly rebuked the suggestion that the Clinton campaign ever played the race card against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
"I was really hurt about it at first. I am way over being hurt. This was cold-blooded, calculated, manipulated and a revolting strategy," Clinton said, in reference to the accusation that the Clinton camp stoked racial fears during his wife's bid.
When asked the seemingly open-ended question, "Is there anything you want voters to know?", Clinton replied, "When I was so tired, I either was not as precise as I should have been or I seemed angrier than I would have been. That's always my mistake. If I am to have any blame, that's it."
Clinton also said he didn't know Obama very well but called his wife's Democratic nomination rival "an immensely talented man" before adding, "I think I understand him. There are enough similarities in our childhoods and things that I think I get what he is doing. But I do think it's better to have made a lot of decisions before you get to be president."
Telling PEOPLE he speaks to his wife "probably three times a day", Clinton explained, "I got in the habit of not being an e-mailer when I was president because we had Newt Gingrich, who wanted to subpoena every e-mail ever written in the White House."
When asked whether the nomination fight would go all the way to the convention, Clinton replied, "It depends on what happens between now and then. It's been really funny that when when all she asked was to let all the votes be counted, the response from the other side was to pressure as many superdelegates as possible, in districts mostly that she carried, to come out against her."
May 21, 2008 in Bush, George W., Hunter, Duncan, Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (423)
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druggstohr be honest, anything anyone says that isn't "clinton is the bestest bestest!" you're going to reinterpret in the worst possible light. I've been seeing posts by people like you around the net. Nothing that can be said, short of "Clinton for president" at this point is anything but sexism and denigration to Clinton and her supporters.
It's a mirror image of the GOP's "liberal liberal liberal" tactics of the last decades. Anything you say to criticize something a republican does got you labeled a liberal and now anything you say about the Clintons, short of supporting them outright and without reservation, gets you labeled misogynist.
Definitely don't need that in the Whitehouse.
Posted by: Benjamin | May 21, 2008 6:33:25 PM
This is not news, this is just more nonsense that demonstrates the contempt the Clintons have for the ignorant and self loathing who still support them.
Let's remember that Chelsea is a 28 year old woman, sheltered, protected and now supported by a series of sinecures. I have an idea, let's ask Chelsea about her cosmetic surgery at time when many Americans don't have access to basic health care. The best thing for the Democratic Party is for the Clintons, all three of them, to go gentle into that good night.
Posted by: Robert Sawyer | May 21, 2008 6:34:03 PM
The Clintons want to be just like the Kennedy's so bad...
Posted by: smearjay | May 21, 2008 6:34:11 PM
This is not news, this is just more nonsense that demonstrates the contempt the Clintons have for the ignorant and self loathing who still support them.
Let's remember that Chelsea is a 28 year old woman, sheltered, protected and now supported by a series of sinecures. I have an idea, let's ask Chelsea about her cosmetic surgery at time when many Americans don't have access to basic health care. The best thing for the Democratic Party is for the Clintons, all three of them, to go gentle into that good night.
Posted by: Robert Sawyer | May 21, 2008 6:34:13 PM
The Clintons want to be just like the Kennedy's so bad...
Posted by: smearjay | May 21, 2008 6:34:19 PM
It's time for Hillary to swallow her pride and concede. The voters have spoken. The superdelegates have spoken and the majority doesn't want her as President. The Clinton era is over and I agree with another post. It's time the Clinton's said 'goodbye' and threw in the towel. They have a sense of entitlement when it comes to running this country. Hillary and Bill are nothing but power hungry people, that don't care about anyone else but themselves. Hillary puts on a big act, pretending she cares about the welfare of the people of this country. That's bull! She only cares about herself and living in the White House. She is a much different person than she portrays herself to big. She's the biggest prima donna in this country. Get out now Hillary. I'm SICK of looking at your face. I'm sick of looking at your healthcare hairdo and your ugly pantsuits and I'm sick of your loud screaming voice. Oh and I'm also sick of seeing your hand move with every syllable your speak! Put your stupid hand down. Walk off! Just walk off and get out! This country had you once before. They didn't have Bill, they had you, so your time is OVER!
Posted by: mustangsally | May 21, 2008 6:34:27 PM
Are we the USA or what? Why are we so NARROW MINDED as to be led to believe that the only qualified women in the land for the presidency are those already related in some way to a president?! The media is so irresponsible for even posing such nonsense!
Posted by: RW | May 21, 2008 6:35:08 PM
Am I the only one that will point out that Chelsea Clinton is uglier than William Howard Taft and James Polk on a bad day?
She should only come out at night.
Posted by: anexio | May 21, 2008 6:35:42 PM
I wish Bill and Hillary Clinton would move back to New York, Arkansas or wherever they claim to come from at the time you ask them.. and live out the remainder of their political lives obscurity.....
Posted by: smearjay | May 21, 2008 6:36:30 PM
Another self-entitled, self-righteous liberal elitist child. She should slowly sink into the mud like Amy Carter before her. We all would really appreciate a tell-all book: how does it feel that your own mother thought more about her own poltical ambitions than the efffect on your fragile development when she deliberately chose to expose her only daughter to a serial sexual predator and accused rapist.
Posted by: BPQ | May 21, 2008 6:36:54 PM
WAY TO GO OBAMA I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT FROM THE BEGINNING.
Posted by: rodney | May 21, 2008 6:37:17 PM
Maybe "doggie bag" Clinton would be president if she could prove the schools she got into and the jobs she has weren't all kickbacks to your parents.
I have NEVER heard of a 25 year old being able to take a year sabatical!!!
She's the Paris Hilton of Politics!
Posted by: SIMONE | May 21, 2008 6:37:48 PM
God! There is something that I find very attractive about Chelsea? God help me!
Posted by: Dougfromeagan | May 21, 2008 6:38:17 PM
I would just as soon as vote for one of Bill Clinton's mistresses than vote for his daughter, Chelsea....
Posted by: smearjay | May 21, 2008 6:38:54 PM
I hope democracy works. The Clintons are setting up a dynasty sans democracy. Will the democrats accept this? Will they say "no"?
If voters winning delegates, as per the rules, is overturned, then democracy doesn't exist in the USA.
Posted by: a.l. | May 21, 2008 6:39:37 PM
I wouldn't vote for a Clinton again if you paid me money. Both he and she are a disgrace and apparently they want to assault us w/their daughter now who is just as much of an unctuous nightmare as her parents are. Who goes out on the campaign trail and tells a nine year old she can't answer his question? These people are a tumor sucking all of the life out of the Dem party, as an Independent, I watch this and wonder when they will ever get me to vote for one of their candidates again....
Posted by: Nick | May 21, 2008 6:39:43 PM
True story- Le Cirque Restaurant Feb 2006. A swarm of secret service enter the restaurant, several SUV outside.
My hopes build that its Bill or Hillary coming for dinner. NO its not--
Its Chelsea and her friend plus 1 table full of secret service plus several inside the restaurant plus more outside with NYC police escort. Oh it was raining, that explains it all. Such a sense of entitlement.
Posted by: no fan of chelsea and here is why | May 21, 2008 6:41:15 PM
She's a B&*ch just like her mother and has about the same chances of capturing the Whitehouse. The Clinton's all need to stick a fork in it...they're done. Now they can all go to their little island and do their little dance with no music.
Posted by: Michele | May 21, 2008 6:41:31 PM
It is a very lame argument to say that Hillary should not be the nominee because Bill was president. It makes no sense whatsoever, is the silliest kind of reasoning, and is not to be taken seriously.
Posted by: Two-cats | May 21, 2008 6:42:13 PM
Anexio--Chelsea looks just like her father, Webster Hubbell. If she's ugly, then so is he. Well, actually, he is pretty ugly.
Posted by: Concerned | May 21, 2008 6:42:31 PM
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