Comments on: Chelsea Clinton misses opportunity

By: Jenna

Jenna — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:01:04 +0000

I agree that it is important to make sure your special someone is the RIGHT one! I guess the best option for me (I am not married or engaged yet but it has been talked about) is to just wait it out until I know!

Interesting post — Thanks for sharing!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:38:40 +0000

Two rules for a good marriage:
1. Don’t sweat the small stuff!
2. It’s ALL small stuff!
If you really love someone things that come up between you and friends don’t really matter.
Sure you can take chances and loose your spouse, But life is too short to loose you precious time together over minor infractions.
A wise man once said, “If you love somebody, set them free”.
And who is to say Bill and Hillery Clinton don’t love each other!
I seem to recall in Bill’s first campaign, that when the same question came up, Hillery’s answer was that the post they were asking about was published in super market rag that also did stories about little green men in flying saucers !
Perhaps their marriage arraignment is as you mentioned earlier,(not that it is any body’s business).
as for Chelsea’s answer to the reporter, I’m sure Chelsea is very intelligent and probably has come up with a better answer for any other time the question comes up again. Dave

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:24:55 +0000

Great insight. There seems to have been innumerable missed opportunities this election; good questions, great chances to make powerful points, but too often overlooked, and from both sides at this.
As for the principle you talked about concerning relationships….i enjoyed it. I’m dating someone right now and marriage has come up, but its just too soon to know. I liked the questions you posed, all too true. I’d add one more that Ive been contemplating: does he or she make you want to be a better person. All too important. Thanks for your post, I ne, ed to keep asking myself those questions as I get closer to someone-divorce is just too common and depressing. I have a couple friends whose parents divorced, and it ruined them significantly. My dads parents divorced, and though he is very successful today, he developed a twitch and insecurities during the divorce when he was 10 years old.
If my wife were to cheat on me, it would be very difficult. But if kids were involved, I’d have to reconsider separation…its easy to tell someone to forgive, but when it is in your court, you realize how difficult it would be. I’d have to get counseling for us both, figure things out, work it out. And i dunno if Hillary has a looser moral code than I do, but it is true that she kept a marriage together, and that is impressive.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:39:23 +0000

“but was it enough to break up their family?”

Let’s be honest. The clinton marriage has more to do with politics and power than love.

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:18:24 +0000

I think that the question probably caught Chelsea off guard. However, I think that it was a good and valid question (especially if you contrast it to Giuliani’s past) and that Chelsea should have been more prepared (or should have been briefed better about how to answer it).

She was definitely wrong, though, when she said, “I do not think that is any of your business.” If Hilary were in the private sector, then sure, it’s probably none of our business.

However, Hilary is vying for the highest level public office. Not even the times of her bowel movements are private anymore.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:02:44 +0000

Spelling errors aside (fixed, thanks), Andrew, what do you think of her answer to the question?

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:10:38 +0000

It’s Chelsea…not Chelsie.

By: darkmoon

darkmoon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:33:55 +0000

Hmm… Funny how that question’s never come up. You’d think that as a public figure and politician’s daughter… and not to mention in the limelight all the time, you’d learn how to spin things. I actually think … hmm.. I think it’s NY’s new governor’s backstory was done pretty well. The whole, we were at a rough time in our lives, we both had affairs during that separation time (is that considered an affair then?) and we both went to counseling and are better for it.

From a PR perspective anyways. Morally, that’s more eye of the beholder type question. As a public person, you can only play damage control, and a good PR person can spin any bad thing into something that the majority would go… “oh.. hey, you know.. they’re really in the right.” But that’s a whole other story on how those that know how to communicate, can lay it on thick with most of the population.