California Conservative

Based on this article, it’s apparent that Chelsea Clinton didn’t inherit her dad’s political skills. Here’s the proof:

Sydney Rieckhoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and “kid reporter” for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they’ve campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response.

“Do you think your dad would be a good ‘first man’ in the White House?” Sydney asked, but Chelsea brushed her question aside.

“I’m sorry, I don’t talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you’re cute,” Chelsea told the pint-sized journalist.

Doesn’t that sound eerily similar to Hillary? That’s cold. It shouldn’t have been difficult for Chelsea to give a cheesy answer to this student. Instead, she turns on her ice lady ‘charm’ and creates a distraction for Hillary.

Here’s what makes this all the more confusing:

Such is the paradox of Chelsea as she campaigns across Iowa in the closing days before the state’s caucuses Jan. 3.

Tall and attractive, Chelsea cuts an impressive figure on the campaign trail; she plunges enthusiastically into the crowd after her mother’s speeches, shaking hands and posing for pictures while asking, “Are you going to caucus for my mom?”

She’ll talk with Hillary’s supporters but she won’t talk with a student? What kind of priorities does she have?

But onstage, Chelsea never speaks; she stands next to her mother and applauds but utters not a single sentence and doesn’t even say hello. And reporters covering the campaign have been put on notice that Chelsea is not available to speak to them. An aide follows the former first daughter as she works the crowd, shushing reporters who approach her and try to ask any questions.

That paragraph reinforces Hillary’s image that she’s afraid of the press. Why else would she plant questions in the audience? Now Hillary’s graduated from planting questions to keeping Chelsea away from middle school student ‘reporters’.

How pathetic is that, especially from the supposed smartest woman on the planet?

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog