Video: Chelsea does the hula
posted at 10:15 pm on February 22, 2008 by Michelle
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Poor Chelsea Clinton is working hard. Speaking Spanish and staving off pro-life protesters. Suffering silent humiliation while mom bashes her hedge fund manager bosses. Battling pro-Obama hecklers. It’s hard out there for a Clinton.
At least they flew her out to Hawaii for a brief moment of fun in the sun. Don’t sweat it too much, dear. It’ll soon be all over and remember what Mom said last night: “Whatever happens, we’re going to be fine.”
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Stockholm syndrome
Texyank on February 22, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Lets leave the kids out of this.
KBird on February 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Why did I just watch that?
TDBURN on February 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I’m not an immigration hardliner, but I lol’d when I saw this.
http://www.thesitrep.com/blog/2008/02/17/ms-minute-man-meets-chelsea/
ninjapirate on February 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Web would be proud.
pedestrian on February 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Here’s an argument I captured last week when I attended a Hillary rally.
terryannonline on February 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I get the sense that Chelsea is embarrassed by it all and would like to just go away and live a normal life. Anyone want to bet she gets married in the next year or so and starts pumpin out babies? She’ll have 4 or 5 before she is done and will always say, “Politics? I’m too busy being a mom.”
peacenprosperity on February 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM
May she one day escape the stigma of her parents (and blind adoration as well) to be viewed on her own merits. An HRC defeat would go someway to that I expect.
Spirit of 1776 on February 22, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Where’s the post about Meghan McCain in her keffiyeh, Michelle?
SnarkVader on February 22, 2008 at 10:28 PM
My hope for Chelsea is that she will find a strong inner moral construct independent of her parents and that she will not forget but surpass the white trash of her DNA. It can be done, I seen it.
This will be inconvenient for Hillary if it happens, but somehow I think Bill might just approve.
Well, yeah, vodka changes your perspective. Take the above with a grain of salt and a twist of lemon.
Harry Schell on February 22, 2008 at 10:29 PM
peacenprosperity on February 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM
LOL!
Saltysam on February 22, 2008 at 10:29 PM
I feel for that girl, actually. Can you imagine being an only child in that family?
That’s enough of that. I’ll leave it alone.
Saltysam on February 22, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Remember when she was an ugly kid? Who was it on Saturday Night Live that called her a babe-in-waiting that had her parents so upset?
Greenhorn on February 22, 2008 at 10:36 PM
She seems pretty well-adjusted in spite of her parents. God’s grace happens.
baldilocks on February 22, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Talk about uncomfortable! Not the dancing, mind you, but having to shill for her dysfunctional family under penalty of the Clinton Crime Family. If she didn’t do that pathetic hula she’d be swimming with the fishes.
pistolero on February 22, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Don’t cry for her. She’s plenty evil. You don’t shrill for the Family without having made your bones.
Sydney Carton on February 22, 2008 at 10:57 PM
I’d cry for anyone who has crappy parents. What they do afterward is a different story. I don’t know of anything that she’s done and I’ll reserve judgment until I do.
baldilocks on February 22, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Slow night?
TOPV on February 22, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Honorable.
Spirit of 1776 on February 22, 2008 at 11:11 PM
I agree. There’s nothing wrong with her campaigning for her mother. It’s Hillary, but it’s still her mother.
SouthernGent on February 22, 2008 at 11:12 PM
I never thought I’d say this – about anyone, but:
I believe that it’s possible that Bush had more rhythm in his recent dance video than Chelsea does……..
Never would I have thought I would believe anyone, and particularly not a woman, would have had less rhythm than Bush……
grtflmark on February 22, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Well,I wouldn’t even dream of besmirching the Bush Twins
and so Republicans have a higher standard,I won’t besmirch
Chelsea either,however;
According to Hillarys ghost written book,It
Takes a Village,to Liberals its always about
the “Children”,that they can exploit for their
own political purposes,or gain!
canopfor on February 22, 2008 at 11:13 PM
But that’s definitely not pimping, right?
matteorobsoni on February 22, 2008 at 11:18 PM
grtflmark on February 22, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Oh C’mon! She wasn’t that bad.
She was graceful at least.
Saltysam on February 22, 2008 at 11:18 PM
What’s Hawaiian for “pander?”
fourstringfuror on February 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM
If she feeels half as bad as do to participate in this sham we are calling a Presidential campaign , I can forgive her. The endless debates over the same meaningless issues, the media driven soundbites, the candidates ritual self abasement, and the billion dollars wasted in the pursuit of a 400,000.00+ dollar a year job, baffle me. What in the name of all that is holy happened to our country? Why is this the best we can do?
deadbackpacker on February 22, 2008 at 11:23 PM
The only besmirching I will do is that she is named after that vile soccer team on The West Side of London. Her father is named on their website as a “celebrity fan”! I hate them!
Here’s a real team!!
Greenhorn on February 22, 2008 at 11:27 PM
deadbackpacker on February 22, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Because we’ve chosen our lives and fortunes to be run from Washington DC.
And we are paying dearly for it.
Saltysam on February 22, 2008 at 11:28 PM
This kids pimpin like her dad and dear mother too. I won’t cut her any slack.
AMartinez on February 22, 2008 at 11:34 PM
I think we would all like to, but Bill and Hillary won’t let us.
labrat on February 22, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Saltysam on February 22, 2008 at 11:28 PM
I don’t ever recall voting for that, I am an individual and I only want an even playing field.
deadbackpacker on February 22, 2008 at 11:43 PM
sorrysam whats an even playing field? If your an American any field is even, all you gotta do is get off your ass.
AMartinez on February 22, 2008 at 11:46 PM
AMartinez on February 22, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Your beef is with “deadbackpacker”.
Saltysam on February 23, 2008 at 12:02 AM
I’m with you on the first half of the sentence, but you lost me on the playing field.
Saltysam on February 23, 2008 at 12:06 AM
I wonder if Chelsea is still get paid by her employer while she campaigns for her mom?
Zan on February 23, 2008 at 12:06 AM
lol sorry saltysam
AMartinez on February 23, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Mind you, I’m not crying for her, but that is her mom she’s shilling for for chrissakes- you do have to expect some. In any event, she hasn’t been overtly political, at least from what I know. I tend to think that well, maybe she doesn’t get a free pass, but I can forgive her the sins of her father and mother.
BillH on February 23, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Funny thing is they kept her under wraps until hitilery ran for the presidency.
Befor that there was no press allowed!
AMartinez on February 23, 2008 at 12:16 AM
At least she hula’s better than John McCain and Teddy Kennedy sing! (Interesting quote from Le Kennedy at the end).
Sorry if these are way old…
SouthernGent on February 23, 2008 at 12:16 AM
To easy, not-gonna-do-it..
Chakra Hammer on February 23, 2008 at 12:24 AM
She looks so much like her father.
Connie on February 23, 2008 at 12:29 AM
lol sorry saltysam
AMartinez on February 23, 2008 at 12:12 AM
No worries…
and good point on “before that, no press allowed”.
I think it’s fair to say “leave the children out of it”, but gimme a break, she’s old enough to run for Congress, and she’s out there putting her face on a campaign.
She’s open to criticism, but anyone attacking her because of her parents is a classless jerk. Criticize her on the merits of her opinions, just like anyone else.
She’d probably appreciate that. She’s a big girl now.
Saltysam on February 23, 2008 at 12:31 AM
And it begins.
Kudos to all who are grown up enough not to attack some woman supporting her mother’s campaign.
To all the rest: Grow a pair, you classless creeps.
MadisonConservative on February 23, 2008 at 12:42 AM
Good for her — she’s a good sport, and who the hell can fault her for supporting her mother? I may despise Hillary, but she is someone’s mother… and Chelsea seems to be a nice young woman.
D2Boston on February 23, 2008 at 12:54 AM
Here is a picture of my daughter wearing a “DEPORT PEDRO” tee shirt with Chelsea.
Chelsea and Sunni Kay
he he he
TheSitRep on February 23, 2008 at 12:55 AM
Awesome!!!
labrat on February 23, 2008 at 1:02 AM
terryannonline,
I enjoyed a quick visit to your web site.
That was a typical video clip of abortion choicers getting all in a huff in righteous indignation over someone who has the audacity to oppose abortion, and resulting in abortion choicers expecting life choicers to lay down and die quietly, otherwise they will be accused of being mean and forcing their beliefs onto others. “Who are YOU to oppose abortion?”
Sick!
It is clear to me that
1) People who support abortion are insensitive, cruel, inhumane, and disrespectful of living human beings’ right to live.
2) Most of those in # 1 don’t possess knowledge of basic Human Embryology 101, or ignore it and are in denial, and tend to make scientifically inaccurate statements, such as “it’s not human, it’s only a blob of cells, it’s not alive, it’s only potential life” and other foolish, scientifically inaccurate statements regarding who is living, developing, and wiggling inside mother’s womb.
3) Many, if not most abortion choicers prefer to avoid personal responsibility and confuse the killing living human beings by abortion techniques those who THEY brought into existence via sexual behavior with “taking responsibility.” It isn’t.
Once they cause the new person to be alive, which occurs at conception-fertilization in sexual reproduction, and also occurs in asexual reproduction inside the woman’s body, resulting in twinning, triplets, etc.,. as well as occurring outside the woman’s body, sexually and asexually, as in IVF procedures and treatments, and ARTS procedures, including blastomere separation, bastocyst splitting (resulting in twinning), and many more that I won’t mention here, as well as forms of cloning, such as Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), and Germ Line Cell Nuclear Transfer (GLCNT), then it becomes the parents of the child’s natural, inherent responsibility to protect and nurture their child, not kill her!
Nevertheless, there is a very large segment of not only our population, but of the world’s population which is involved with pushing an agenda of comfort and “escape” from personal responsibility. In abortion, people have a short cut escape route, a form of “birth control” in that it kills a living human being, their own offspring!
I cannot wait until it is illegal and that its illegality is enforced to the fullest extent of the law. That would be great for our culture, our society, and our mores and values as a nation, lifting us out of the gutter and into a higher level of respect for others as well as for ourselves and our actions.
Nevertheless, there is always someone who is an abortion choicers who will scream “Who are YOU to force YOUR beliefs on others?!!!?”
The response is clearly “Do you oppose rape, murder, assault and battery, robbery, car theft, kidnapping, child abuse, pedophilia, animal torture, etc.?”
Of course they do.
Then, if they oppose rape, murder, and other violent, abhorrent crimes and behavior, are they not also pushing YOUR beliefs on others?
Of course they are!
The clincher is, by pushing and supporting abortion, they ARE pushing their beliefs on others, and that belief results in the death of a living human being, the human baby who is aborted.
William2006 on February 23, 2008 at 2:07 AM
She’s older than me. No kid glove treatment here.
fourstringfuror on February 23, 2008 at 2:18 AM
Oh excellent picture.
Nevicata on February 23, 2008 at 2:22 AM
Also heard:
(from the audience): “I need your mom’s stamp of approval on stopping abortion!”
Chelsea: “Of course I will support the USPS. STAMPS for everyone!!”
Ugly on February 23, 2008 at 3:18 AM
Not only is she older, but like Bill, she is stumping. She spoke yesterday in San Antonio, and all the news stations played her clips. It’s the same tired rhetoric. Blasting corporations and high wage earners and railing how they need to pay more for everyone else’s benefits. She is echoing and championing all her mom’s causes. She cannot have it both ways. If she’s going to regurgitate and further the party line, then she cannot hide from the crossfire. This truly is a family affair.
Cold Steel on February 23, 2008 at 7:16 AM
I’m willing to cut her some slack as well.
Zorro on February 23, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Don’t y’all get your knickers all twisted up-nobody is going after a ‘kid’. She’s an adult, and she’s campaigning for her mother.
If there had been blogging during the Clinton years, while Chelsea was a child, her name would be absent-no one would ‘pick on a kid’.
All for naught. I think HClinton is about done; the final nail in the coffin-at the debate the other night she was gushing about how proud she was to be standing on the same stage as Barack Obama. She knows she’s beat, and after Texas, she’ll get on the Obama bandwagon, hoping for the Veep slot.
Doug on February 23, 2008 at 8:06 AM
Thats nice to know because she sure as hell doesn’t look like either of the Clintons.
Who’s yo’ daddy ?
OBX Pete on February 23, 2008 at 8:16 AM
Shilling for mom, but she won’t answer any questions or allow any interviews. And you’re a bad person if you criticize her for it. Puhhhleeze.
petefrt on February 23, 2008 at 8:28 AM
For crying out loud what do you really expect from the child of any candidate? If they don’t campaign they are criticized as one of Reagan’s kids was (or Rudy’s for the younguns here). If they do campaign they were criticized as Reagan’s kids (or the Bush twins for the younguns) or in this case Chelsea.
Much ado about well….nothing.
Those who admit to being younger than her are showing the poor job our schools do of teaching history.
Bradky on February 23, 2008 at 8:30 AM
I feel bad for her. She’s just trying to help mum.
AbaddonsReign on February 23, 2008 at 9:12 AM
Clarification: Shilling for mom is to be expected. It’s her refusal to interact and answer questions that’s the first problem, and Hillary’s self-righteous indignation at any criticism of her that’s the second problem. Either she’s a player in the political game or she’s not. Can’t have cake and eat it too.
petefrt on February 23, 2008 at 9:17 AM
Hell, the very same people, full of righteous indignation, are telling me I can’t have a incandescent light bulb in my house.
Saltysam on February 23, 2008 at 9:26 AM
Chelsea = class. Sure, she’s a far leftist at this time. She is also very smart and, unfortunately, battle-scarred. I predict she will abandon liberal politics when she hits her 30s. Welcome to the club, Chelsea. I would be very proud to be on the same side as her.
indythinker on February 23, 2008 at 9:50 AM
She looks like Eleanor Roosevelt!
BobH on February 23, 2008 at 10:03 AM
I look forward to her picture not being available. She is homely enough to be part of the Royal Family, and just about as dim witted.
The older she gets, the more she will look like Bill and I for one don’t wish to watch the progress.
Hening on February 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM
That’s the problem with “pro-choice” people. They’re very anti-choice on many other issues, such as guns, school choice, and now light bulbs, of all things.
These people seem to have no problem when proponents of gun control, affirmative action, CO2-emission reductions, gay marriage, etc., try to force THEIR beliefs on others.
Bigfoot on February 23, 2008 at 10:12 AM
That is not a family, even though there is a bio mom and a bio dad and a bio child.
I gotta think about what it actually is, but family? uh, noidontthinkso.
dogsoldier on February 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Does this woman have a JOB??? Why the hell is she traveling all over the damn country right now? Isn’t she supposed to be working???
Career politicians are making WAY too much MONEY!
KMC1 on February 23, 2008 at 11:00 AM
I have always felt kinda sorry foe Chelsea but then I think she has had alot of good things too. and good for her!
sko17 on February 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Knowing how protective the Clintonistas are of her, I’m surprised Bubba Billy himself didn’t jump out of the crowd throwing a blanket over her and yelling “You can’t videotape my daughter doing that!” But for all we know, Shillary probably has him hog-tied in some bunker somewhere to prevent him from botching up what little is left of her fading campaign.
pilamaye on February 23, 2008 at 11:48 AM
I probably shouldn’t have.
Channeling Vince Foster!
Serr8d on February 23, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Stockholm syndrome
Texyank on February 22, 2008 at 10:22 PM
You slayed me with that one…My comment is: she’s looking more like Webb every day.
Christine on February 23, 2008 at 12:34 PM
So far as I can tell, Chelsea is an innocent. She has not really done much to place her in any “category” and it is taken for granted that she’d stump for her parents like most children of politicians do.
She is an ugly girl, but there is no reason to take anything she does or says as worth making a political point out of it at this point in her life.
Warner Todd Huston on February 23, 2008 at 12:40 PM
I think she’s cute.
mikeyboss on February 23, 2008 at 1:11 PM
At Chelsea’s tender age….
It appears she has been Lei’d many times over that of her mother, the Ice-Witch.
awesum on February 23, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Leave her alone, YOU ANIMALS!
Chuck Schick on February 23, 2008 at 2:14 PM
I hope so, for her sake. She’s been dragged through way more mud than someone who didn’t deserve it should.
Bob's Kid on February 23, 2008 at 3:10 PM
28 is not a kid.
- The Cat
MirCat on February 23, 2008 at 3:19 PM
If you have to kill 2 to become a 00, imagine what you have to do for the Clinton name. I pity her…
HotAirExpert on February 23, 2008 at 3:25 PM
There is none that I’m aware of.
Irregardless, Hula is sacred to Hawaiians. It is also shared to all, whether you like them or not.
Po’o Lolo!
Kini on February 23, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Remember, Michael Corleone didn’t want to be in the family business either, and look how that turned out…
Big Daddy Cool on February 23, 2008 at 4:43 PM
I would agree with that except, when mom keeps Chelsea visible in the campaign, then all is fair in …yada yada yada
Wade on February 23, 2008 at 5:41 PM
This thread shows how Republicans are really no different than Dems in many regards. Both sides are ripe with invective; insults displace logic. What does Chelsea’s appearance have to do with anything?
I don’t know if it’s sexism or residual cave dust infecting one’s brain, but to hear grown men disparaging a young woman who has done no discernable wrong, is disgusting.
Some of you sound like the same type of men who talk shit about a woman because she spurned their advances. I don’t know Chelsea. But I respect her role in honoring her parents and weathering the storm of crap for being a good daughter.
If she had not campaigned with her parents, she would have been ridiculed just the same. I see no reason to attack her. Her parents, on the other hand, are without regard.
***
RE: Deport Pedro
I despise my country’s permissive posturing on the issue of illegal immigration. I believe Ronald Reagan had a chance to prevent the current flood of foreign nationals invading our country. I believe every President since then, except GWB has ignored the issue. President Bush did not ignore the issue, but he ignored Americans with his push for Amnesty.
I am disgusted with illegal immigration and its impact on our neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, traffic, cities, states and our nation’s sovereignty.
That being said, I equally despise such shallow displays of thoughtlessness as the one on this t-shirt. I have known many Pedros. I have known many illegals. None of the Pedros I know are illegal.
That type of ethnic insult is valid ammo for the other side when they call us “nativists.” A shirt like that goes a long way at proving their perceptions. It does zero to advance America’s fight for a secure border.
I have the same response to this shirt as I did the first time someone told me to “Go back to Africa!”
take away:
I am proud to see another young, presumably Republican, being proactive, political and bold. I’m sorry the message was so lousy.
The Race Card on February 23, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Forgive me but Chelsea looks as though she was recently leied.
Seriously, her moral compass has not yet been degaussed. I really don’t mind her. Mum, on the other hand, makes me wish to wash that hand.
SJBill on February 23, 2008 at 7:34 PM
Race Card – we are not all like this.
mikeyboss on February 23, 2008 at 7:55 PM
But seriously – when they ask Chelsea how old she is, why does she answer by scraping the ground with her foot?
foxforce91 on February 23, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Smugness doesn’t suit you Michelle. Lame and vacuous blog post.
dakine on February 23, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Ha ha , you don’t get it.
The Deport Pedro phrase is a reference to the movie: “Napoleon Dynomite”
It is not a blanket reference to all folks named Pedro but about all Illegal aliens.
TheSitRep on February 24, 2008 at 7:23 AM
The mind boggles at the thought of Chelsea refusing to campaign for her mother’s run at the Presidency. Even if Hillary were to win 2 terms, the presidency will be over one day, but Chelsea will only ever have one mother.
So as long as she shows a little grace and doesn’t carry on like a leftist fruitcake — granted, a hard line to walk in the Hillary campaign — I think we should cut her some slack.
She’s a hedge fund manager? Sounds like a Republican-in-waiting. Wouldn’t that be ironic?
theregoestheneighborhood on February 24, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Pretty inane. Must have been a slow news day. I personally don’t have much use for Chelsea since she wants to campaign for Hillery but won’t do interviews. She doesn’t want any accountability for what she says.
TooTall on February 25, 2008 at 11:02 AM
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