Posted on 03/30/2008 12:20:51 PM PDT by kingattax
Campaigning For Mom In N. Carolina, Clinton Says She Was Sheltered From Chauvinism
(AP) Chelsea Clinton said Saturday that she didn't realize how much sexism remained in the United States until she noticed the issue at recent campaign stops for her mother.
"I didn't really get how much sexism there still was in our country until I was at a rally with my mom in New Hampshire, and someone came up to me and said, 'I just can't see a woman being commander in chief,"' Clinton said during a stop in Research Triangle Park.
She also noted another New Hampshire rally that was disrupted by men who stood up and told Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to "Iron my shirt." And she quietly questioned why some people find humor in a nutcracker doll that looks like her mother.
The younger Clinton said that she didn't understand that sexism still existed because she has always been supported by both the men and women in her family.
"I didn't realize that that wasn't expected yet in the rest of our country," Clinton said. "I have been so profoundly more grateful than I have ever been over the past few months for my parents because of that."
Clinton spoke at the Young Democrats of North Carolina convention in Research Triangle Park - an event that normally draws only appearances for statewide races. On Saturday, campaign officials for both Obama and Clinton sent surrogates to speak, seeking support ahead of the state's May 6 primary. Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker appeared on behalf of Obama.
On several occasions during her speech, Clinton referred to the North American Free Trade Agreement - a pact often blamed for the acceleration of textile and manufacturing job losses across the state - and explained why her former president father and aspiring president mother differed on the issue.
An audience member who said his mother lost her job when it was shipped to Mexico asked Clinton how he could reconcile the passage of NAFTA under the Bill Clinton administration with Hillary Rodham Clinton's opposition of the free trade agreement.
"We don't agree on everything as a family," Chelsea Clinton said. "I agree with my mother on most things - not everything. I agree with my father on most things - not everything. My mother and father agree on most things - not everything."
Clinton, along with rival Barack Obama, repeatedly criticized NAFTA during her successful Ohio primary campaign. She has said she would renegotiate trade agreements and end tax breaks for corporations that send jobs out of the country.
The 1994 landmark NAFTA pact opened trade with Canada and Mexico.
“what is chelsea’s degree in, anyone know ?”
Liberal arts would be my guess.
Things that make ya go hmmmmm....
Chels can’t be a real democratic, then. They easily see sexism and racism in everything.
What is sexism? BTW, Chelsea is a cupid stunt and belongs in the laundry room ironing shirts.
I put this statement in the ‘trial balloon’ category. “Iron my shirt” goes right along with it. They’re trying out the intended theme for the Presidential campaign. “Anyone who votes against me is a sexist”.
I hear you. Unfortunately, no matter what happens in the Democratic primary battle - you have to evaluate her (Chelsea’s) chances as good in ultimately entering political life as a candidate. She will be th eonly child of some very wealthy parents (after 7 years out of the White House her parents net worth - near zero in 1992) was $50-70M. By the time they pass, she will inherit a great deal of wealth, and thus the means to foist herself on the rest of us.
I’d say she is remarkably open about admitting how much she doesn’t know. Which is vast.
if william shakespeare, the master of irony, were writing this, then monica lewinsky and not hillary would become the first female president in US history.
I believe her last publicly declared major was history. I doubt she studied things like the Gulag or the Great Leap Forward....
Yeah, surrrrre they did.
Miss Clinton, what do you do for a living? Not where do you work or what your business card has as a title, but what do you actually DO?
Beautiful! I was just going to search for a shot of the Iron Lady. Hadn’t thought of Meir, though. Absolutely agree with your assessment!
And it's not "a woman" it's "that woman".
Girl is deaf too!
No, not “Research Triangle Park” but “Joe’s Mobilehome Park”.
My son-in-law tried to buy one for me but found it impossible to get one. Instead, I got “The Hillary Toilet Bowl Brush”. Her head has been submerged in the bowl alot.
Must be the "strategy of the week."
I recall on Ollie North's old radio show that a guy called in about the genealogy of Billzo and Hillary, and Ollie got so upset he hung up the phone on him. Made me wonder if Ollie knows what the Church of the First Born is all about.
I love that nutcracker, but the plastic Hillary figure needs to gain about 50 lbs in order to look more like her.
lol..thats true
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