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Posted on 04/18/2012 10:23:04 AM PDT by bkopto
Hillary and Bill Clinton are at the top of their game. Their daughter, Chelsea, not so much. Why is the "dork diva" of TV news floundering?
We're in something of a "Clinton renaissance" right now, says Michael Hastings at BuzzFeed. Hillary is a widely respected Secretary of State and "officially Internet famous," and Bill is a "universally beloved" philanthropist and elder statesman. "Then there’s Chelsea Clinton," who finally stepped into the spotlight in December as a special NBC correspondent. Critics call her occasional on-air "Making a Difference" segments boring and anonymous NBC staffers and executives tell Hastings that Clinton is "terrible" on camera, entitled, and short on journalistic chops. Why is TV "dork diva" Chelsea not sharing in the Clinton glow? Here, five theories:
1. Clinton has no TV or journalism experience...
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2. Nobody wants to hear about do-gooders
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3. But she refuses to get personal
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4. Nepotism is a bad hiring practice
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5. Forget the sniping, Chelsea's doing fine
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6. Webb Hubbell’s daughter is tough to look at, has an obnoxious personality, is a self-important princess who thinks she’s entitled to the world, and mostly people dont give a crap about her. Kim Kardashian is more interesting than Webb Hubbell Jr.
You forgot the technicolor barf alert!
Bill is a “universally beloved” philanthropist and elder statesman.
Yodelhoo is always good for a laugh.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Little old lady.
For those of who may have forgotten what kind of a President Bill Clinton was:
1) Clinton’s own words show his often expressed innate hostility to, and utter contempt for, the core principles of the American founding:
``If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
``The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people’’ –- Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993
``We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans…that we forget about reality.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, quoted in USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A, ``NRA change: `Omnipotent to powerful’’’ by Debbie Howlett
“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly… that they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare… However, now there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” – Bill Clinton, April 19, 1995
2) Clinton inevitably pursued his own political advantage at the expense of American interests and national security. Here is just one of many possible examples:
It is well documented that Clinton and the Democrats took illegal campaign money from groups and individuals tied directly to the Chinese People’s Republican Army. It is therefore not surprising that In January 1998 Clinton went against the advice of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Pentagon experts by lifting long-standing restrictions against the export of American satellites to China for launch on Chinese rockets. Not only did he move control over such decisions from the more security-focused State Department to the Commerce Department, but he intervened in a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications, retroactively enabling Loral to sell critical missile technology to the Chinese. Interestingly enough, Clinton’s decision was made at the request of Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, whose earlier $1.3 million campaign donation made him the single biggest contributor to the Democratic election effort.
The result, as stated eloquently by syndicated columnist Linda Bowles, was that “the Democrats got money from satellite companies and from Chinese communists; China got supercomputors, advanced production equipment and missile technology; Loral got its satellites launched at bargain basement prices . . . and the transfer of sensitive missile technology gave China [for the first time] the capability of depositing bombs on American cities.” Incidentally, Loral ultimately failed to benefit from this permanent injury to America’s security interests: in July 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, and in order to raise cash was forced to sell its most profitable business – a fleet of communications satellites orbiting over North America.
3) On two occasions, Clinton used military action for the specific purpose of distracting the American public from the fallout of the Lewinsky affair:
• On August 20, three days after Clinton finally admitted publicly to the Lewinsky affair, the news media was poised to focus on that day’s grand jury testimony by Monica Lewinsky. That same morning, Clinton personally went on national television to gravely announce his bombing of a Sudanese “chemical weapons factory,” and a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. It was the first time most Americans ever heard the name of Osama bin Laden. The factory bombing in Sudan killed an innocent night watchman, but accomplished little else. It later was proven that the plant was making badly needed pharmaceuticals for people in that poverty-stricken part of the world, but no chemical weapons.
Several months later, the U.S. Center for Nonproliferation Studies, part of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, stated: "...the evidence indicates that the facility had no role whatsoever in chemical weapons development." Kroll Associates, one of the world's most reputable investigative firms, also confirmed that there was no link in any way between the plant and any terrorist organization. As for the Afghanistan bombing, it failed to do any damage at all to bin Laden or his organization. Clinton’s action was accurately characterized by George W. Bush when he said right after 9-11: "When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.
Clinton’s pointless and murderous military actions did not make Americans safer that day, although they did destroy an innocent life, and for all the good they did certainly could have been delayed in any case. But they did succeed in diverting media attention from Lewinsky’s grand jury testimony for a 24-hour news cycle, which was the main point. So I guess, they weren’t a total loss.
•On December 16, 1998, on the eve of the scheduled House vote on his impeachment, Bill Clinton launched a surprise bombing attack on Baghdad. As justification for this exploit, he cited the urgent threat that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction posed to America, and the need for immediate action. Almost immediately, the House Democrats held a caucus and emerged calling for a delay in the impeachment proceedings. House minority leader Dick Gephardt made a statement: "We obviously should pass a resolution by saying that we stand behind the troops. I would hope that we do not take up impeachment until the hostilities have completely ended."
Conveniently, a delay so near the end of the House term would have caused the vote to be taken up in the next session – when the newly elected House membership would be seated with more Democratic representation, thereby improving Clinton’s chances of dodging impeachment.
The Republicans did, in fact, agree to delay the hearings, but only for a day or two. Amazingly, Clinton ended the bombing raid after only 70 hours -- once it became clear that in spite of the brief delay, the vote would still be held in the current session.
Once the bombing stopped, Clinton touted the effectiveness and importance of the mission. As reported by ABC News : “We have inflicted significant damage on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs, on the command structures that direct and protect that capability, and on his military and security infrastructure,” he said. Defense secretary William Cohen echoed the point: “We estimate that Saddam's missile program has been set back by at least a year.”
Whether or not one buys Clinton’s assessment of that mission, it is difficult to believe that its timing was so critical that it required commencement virtually at the moment the House was scheduled to vote on the impeachment. I think the most reasonable conclusion is that Clinton cynically deployed US military assets and placed military personnel in harm’s way for purely political reasons.
4) Clinton’s reckless sexual behavior was a threat to American national security:
Clinton and his supporters have been very effective in persuading large numbers of Americans that the Lewinsky scandal was “only about sex.” But I see a bigger issue here, because Clinton is on record as saying that he would have done anything to keep knowledge of the Lewinsky affair from becoming public.
To me, that statement raises a very serious question: What if, instead of sending her recorded Lewinsky conversations to Ken Starr, Linda Tripp had instead secretly offered them for sale, say, to the Chinese government? Or to the Russians? Or even to agents of Saddam?
What kind of blackmail leverage would those tapes have provided to a foreign government in dealing with America on sensitive trade, security or military issues? One of the few things Clinton ever said that I believe is that he would have done anything to keep the Lewinsky affair secret. Given his demonstrated track record of selling out American interests for personal or political gain (and there are more examples that I could have cited here), how far would he have gone in compromising America’s real interests in order to protect his own neck when threatened with blackmail?
Pretty far, I believe. Equally distressing is the prospect Clinton might, in fact, have succumbed to foreign black mail on other occasions in order to hide different sexual episodes that ultimately did not become public. There is no way to know, of course, but I prefer presidents for whom such a scenario is not a plausible possibility.
And don’t even get me started on the war crime in Kosovo.
“Hillary is a widely respected Secretary of State . . .”
I get the “wide” part, but I’m not buying into the “respected” end of that description.
I don't know anyone who admires the drunken hag. Every bit of foreign policy she's touched has turned to crap.
Bill is a "universally beloved" philanthropist philanderer.
no one watches NO BODY CARES!
LOL!
Hillary! and Mooch are always offended when the limo driver asks them to get out and walk across bridges with posted weight limits.
Nita Lowey will decide NOt to run again, and Chelsea wil run for the seat, which represents Chappaqua, in suburban Westchester..where her parents moved to in 2000, when Hillary ran for the Senate.
Lowey is delaying her announcement until the last possible moment, so that others Dems won't have time to plan a run. The fix is in, this is a done deal..
You heard it here FIRST.
Why would Lowey give up a safe seat...easy...first of all, it's NO fun being in the minority in the House, and the Dems have no chance of taking the House this decade. Second, she'll be offered an ambassadorship somewheres nice..next year..after Clinton's out of State, so the smell test won't stink too bad...IOW.the MSM can ignore this blatant fix.
You can tell that Lowey's ready to bail, because she has been almost nonexistent in the media since the 2010 election..
What's ironic is that before 20oo, Lowey was all set to run for the Senate, she was considered on of the faves..then the Clintons shoved her to the side..
Disastrous Democrat Ping
Lowey is delaying her announcement until the last possible moment, so that others Dems won't have time to plan a run. The fix is in, this is a done deal..
You heard it here FIRST.
That makes a lot of sense. That way the Clinton legacy is still alive. I hope that the voters are smarter than that.
Understand that you have first hand knowledge of that area .
Unbelievable. Simply un-f***ing-believable that anyone anywhere could make this statement with a straight face.
lol
Yes, Obama will be the candidate for President, but Biden may not be the VP candidate. They know they can’t dump Obama before the election and retain the black vote and Hillary can’t take a chance running for President and losing, so they will have to dump Biden then put Hillary in that slot. After the election, if Obama wins then the Clintons can push him out and have 4 years to rebuild before the next election. If he loses even with her as VP cadidate, Hillary is poised for 2016.
chelsea will make a fine congresswoman, with all her career work in being “hired” to schmooze Dad and Mom’s associates to invest with their hedge fund bundlers, in exchange for access to policy makers
It’s becoming a dynasty
And if Huma can produce a little weiner, then there is hope for Chelsea and her runaway ski bum husband to spawn yet another generation
Like Michelle Obummer, who really gives a rats behind about Chelsea Clinton. I wouldn’t go across the street to watch her do a pole dance. Good grief!
Do you need five?...she’s a liberal
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