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Maybe it’s just me, but I was rather struck when seeing clips on TV of Bill & Hillary’s daughter Chelsea campaigning for her mother this week. Was it her eyes? Her hair? Her face? Nah. I couldn’t really put my finger on it as I watched a blurb on the news showing her discussing global warming with college students someplace in America, but she really made me feel… uncomfortable. I turned to my wife and said that watching her was somewhat unnerving. Then, I realized what it was. Much like Paris Hilton, Chelsea Clinton is a person I have seen in hundreds and hundreds of video clips and pictures– but until that moment,
I never heard her speak!
And when I did, well, I was rather freaked out… she sounds, naturally, EXACTLY like her mother! I know that this has nothing to do with anything, but it just seemed bizarre to realize that for someone as well known to me as Chelsea Clinton, I had never heard her voice before, despite being keenly aware of her for over fifteen years.
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Perhaps that’s what that poor MSNBC reporter meant when he said,
"Doesn’t it seem as if Chelsea is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"
I think reporter David Shuster simply stated what’s on everybody’s minds. Now he’s in trouble for being honest…
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Chelsea speaks (pic: Wikipedia)
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Click here to watch a video of Chelsea talking about Darfur at a campaign event and you’ll see what I mean.
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