"No more dynasties"--for women, that is

[moriah]

113. Glad you are one of those who understand that about Chelsea.

I can't speak to her time after leaving Arkansas but her reputation in school (we're within a year of each other and both went to the public schools in Little Rock, and one of my friends's mom's worked at Rose Law Firm and they knew each other far better) was a rather shy person who honestly didn't like, and certainly didn't trust, people who made much about her being the Governor's daughter. She didn't want to stand out.

A lot of gifted kids are shy when young, but that rep combined with the hell she endured under public scrutiny as an adolescent personally, plus the hell the media put the whole family through... NOT majoring in PolSci or pre-law, never running for office, and having children of her own now who might go through similar problems she endured because of her parents being so high-profile (not saying they aren't already famous, but I can't see her wishing *more* fame/flames on them)....

I have always thought the summit of her personal political ambition might be having a diplomatic role somehow -- would be serving the public, but not in a leadership or decision-making role. That also fits closer to her graduate studies than aspirations for executive office.