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It’s time Chelsea Clinton becomes fair game
Posted By katie allison granju
Chelsea Clinton’s entire life has been spent in a curious and somewhat unique position of being hugely famous and yet completely under-the-radar.
One Slate writer makes the case that it’s time for Chelsea’s gig as untouchable by the media to be over:
When Bill was first elected, Chelsea was 12; treating her with special deference made sense. Now she’s 28. She’s old enough to vote, get drunk, and run for Congress. She’s chosen to enter the political fray and campaign for her mom. That’s cool, but Chelsea is also old enough to answer for the positions she’s espousing and to be treated as any other national political figure. Last summer, Clinton campaign spokesperson Howard Wolfson told the New York Times that, “Even though President and Senator Clinton are public figures, their daughter is not.” That’s legally implausible and an impossible stance in the face of Chelsea’s consistent presence on the campaign trail. Chelsea has been courting voters from Iowa to California, and soliciting the support of superdelegates over the phone. Yet she has the temerity to tell a 9-year-old reporter she’s off limits. This is stupid.
Feb 12th, 2008
Speaking of getting drunk, Chelsea’s pimpin, er, campaigning at a bar, Sully’s, in Cincinnati tonight. It’s about 4 blocks from where I work and a rather average place. I’m wondering how it was chosen.