Chelsea takes offence at Oxford classmates

educationguardian.co.uk ^ | November 9, 2001 | Staff and agencies

[CommiesOut]

Chelsea takes offence at Oxford classmates

EducationGuardian.co.uk

Staff and agencies
Friday November 9, 2001

Oxford University's most famous student, Chelsea Clinton, believes her English classmates have been insensitive, and even offensive, since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

The daughter of former US president Bill Clinton has clearly taken to heart comments from peace protesters and students, sceptical about American motives.

"I bristle at these suggestions. The idea that anyone believes America would enter into this conflict capriciously boggles my mind, and the notion that the United States is acting without regard to the Afghan people is offensive," Ms Clinton wrote in the US magazine, Talk.

Despite being notoriously media shy and never giving interviews, she has written a candid piece for the magazine's December/January issue, describing life in Britain and her reaction to the events of September 11.

"It's hard to be abroad right now. Every day I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling. Sometimes it's from students, sometimes it's from a newspaper columnist, sometimes it's from 'peace' demonstrators," she said.

"Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am."

Ms Clinton started a two-year course in International Relations at University College, Oxford, last month. But she was in New York on September 11, visiting friends.

Two days later, she answered journalists' questions, admitting that, as the towers were falling, "the only things I was sure of was that I didn't want to be crying or alone, and that I wanted to talk to my mother. It was only after I had seen them both that I finally felt secure again in my skin."

In her article for Talk, Ms Clinton describes her panic as she walked alone through New York trying to speak to Hillary Clinton, and her amazement at how patriotic the whole experience makes her feel two months later.

"Today I find myself shocked into a new awareness of how much I loved the country I grew up in. I do not know where my life will take me, and I no longer have the confidence that I know what the world will be like tomorrow or when I finish school."

[CommiesOut]

Awwwww...

[TommyDale]

Geezz....maybe the Oxford students read what Chelsea's adoptive father said in his speech to Georgetown University students two nights ago. It's all America's fault!!

[Zoey]

Chelsea sounds like she is smarter than her father.

[TheBigB]

"It's hard to be abroad right now."

Hard to be a chick or a dame, too. We just gotta pull together and...

Oh.

Never mind.

[beethoven]

That's not saying much! She's an extension of her parents thought process.

[Jean S]

Every day I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling. Sometimes it's from students, sometimes it's from a newspaper columnist, sometimes it's from 'peace' demonstrators," she said.

And sometimes it's from my Daddy.

[doug from upland]

Well, well. It's so nice to hear from DORC (Daughter of Rapist Clinton).

[Lent]

Aw gee Chelsea when are you going to figure out most Universities are bastions of leftist ideology and mentality.

[veronica]

Oh goody, the Brits are ganging up on ugly Chelsea.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Sometimes it's from students, sometimes it's from a newspaper columnist, sometimes it's from 'peace' demonstrators,"

You mean like your effing father when his bretheren hanging around Travers AFB in California spat on my father as he was returning from Vietnam in 1970? Look in the effing mirror for once, you carp-mouthed, no-chinned, hairy-legged, over-privileged, sugar-britched communist HAG.

[Paleo Conservative]

First of all, terror, the killing of noncombatants for economic, political, or religious reasons has a very long history as long as organized combat itself, and yet, it has never succeeded as a military strategy standing on its own, but it has been around a long time. Those of us who come from various European lineages are not blameless.

I wond what she thinks about this statement?

[CaptRon]

"Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake.

What exactly does this mean? Why do the need to fit the D word as many times as possible into their daily discourse?

[GSWarrior]

eewwwww! I am picturing Chelsea bristling.

[Equality 7-2521]

Interesting... thirty-some years ago her daddy was leading those peace protesters that she now finds fault with.

[Dakmar]

Other than that how do you like Chelsea?

[syriacus]

"Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am."
Ms Clinton started a two-year course in International Relations at University College, Oxford, last month.

I hope she doesn't become too much of an isolationist. That might be bad for her career in International Relations

[Marysecretary]

That's not so hard to do. Her father is a clown, a dunce, a pervert, a very stupid man. He still thinks he's president.

[TADSLOS]

Hillary to Chelsea: Now, remember dear, just follow the script I gave you...stay focused for me, 2004 is just 3 short years away!

[CommiesOut]

I read it twice and cried.
People should be nice to her.
She's a good patriot, isn't she?