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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChelsea Clinton says she has not ruled out running for office
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/chelsea-clinton-says-she-has-not-ruled-out-running-for-officeI wish she would run.
She told the Edinburgh international book festival that while she abhorred Donald Trumps presidency, she had no current plans to follow in her parents footsteps.
Like against the McCain woman/daughter, the one that isnt very bright. I wonder if that contrast would matter to cons.
All I know about the McCain person is she is not very bright and has no qualifications at all to be on TV.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)House seat?
Eliot Rosewater
(32,403 posts)But since all I care about now is numbers, I say bring her on, she would probably surprise us and kick some ass.
avebury
(11,060 posts)I think that she could be a good candidate.
KCDebbie
(664 posts)Tiny republican heads explode!
Do you think they can get those same rubes to believe that Chelsea is also the Director of the Illuminati AND the Bilderburg Group as they seemed to over that her Mother is?
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)A name isnt a qualification and we dont need to be risking anything like a House seat on someone with just a name and not much else.
Eliot Rosewater
(32,403 posts)Kingofalldems
(39,163 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(32,403 posts)run seems to be this persons position.
Let me go look at the OR and JD candidates and I will apply that rule
Kingofalldems
(39,163 posts)LisaM
(28,420 posts)In the article, she specifically mentioned City Council, among other things.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)I know folks eat all upset when you dare suggest you like to see political candidates have a history beige they jump into high level races, but thats just my preference.
LisaM
(28,420 posts)I went back into the article to see what she said. It was a little misleading about following in her parents' footsteps, and of course neither of them started with a Presidential campaign.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,513 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,513 posts)I'm sure she will shine in any career venture she chooses.
edbermac
(16,099 posts)If you think her mother had it bad...
Aristus
(68,041 posts)I like to hope that by the time she does, the current crop of shit-flinging fuckbaskets who fly into berserk rages at the mere mention of the name Clinton will be dead.
Eliot Rosewater
(32,403 posts)I just read a comment here that makes me laugh so hard I cant believe it.
Can I list the names of people running and their qualifications? Better not
Me.
(35,454 posts)even no there is a group of men who stomp all over her, all of the time. Unfair and so cruel but a reality nonetheless.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)something right, of course, but Chelsea seemed to have the right disposition to handle the very disciplined life and the public duties, and notably a seeming real interest in what took place there that some or most just didn't have. Intellectual curiosity and outlook would be a huge gift for a WH kid.
It'd be interesting to know which parent she takes after in which ways, or neither. Bill is generally believed to be brilliant, but of course insufficiently disciplined (!). We've never seen any signs of that last in Chelsea. She's apparently the type of good girl who, like her mom, always did all her homework and asked for extra projects, went straight to college and acquired some masters degrees and her doctorate in studies a good liberal interested in a life in public service would study, became very involved in civic and charitable affairs at challenging levels, including the Clinton Foundation, married well, continued her go-gooder involvements, and in appropriate time took on motherhood. No wild time.
No one's ever called Hillary brilliant, but she's a major policy wonk, in love with her ideas, and an extremely hard and disciplined worker. Given all the hostile flak accompanying the mere mention of her name, most would be surprised to know that Hillary has always prided herself on her ethics, though the Clintons declined to live the very scrupulously for-public-scrutiny life the Obamas did. They were always doing things that made them vulnerable to hostile misinterpretation by enemies. I remember how aggravated I was when they let a friend hold the mortgage on their first house after the WH, though a friend who needed to invest held our first mortgage.
But all honest observers say they've both always been major bring-it-on types when things got tough. Obviously, when you think about it. That alone makes them very different from me. They seemingly shift into a gear I not only don't possess but can't imagine. Chelsea's lived her whole life in that environment, though, and doesn't seem afraid of it. I remember Chelsea as a teenager noticing a camera focused on Hillary from across an arena and immediately gently pushing her mother's hand that was holding a glass of wine down out of the picture. An automatic protective response.
I'd like to see Chelsea run and will be surprised if she doesn't eventually. And given her obvious discipline, service ethics, character, intellect, education and experience to go with starting on third base, it I wouldn't be surprised at all if she became an eminently successful and effective public servant.
Normally I'd always want newbies to begin at local or at least state level, but she's no newbie. I could see starting with a U.S. congressional seat or an appointed office.
Midwestern Democrat
(820 posts)she really has the level of drive necessary to go any further than that.