Lightning Joe - a piece of work
The First Black Presidentress?
posted Monday, 31 March 2008
Kind of ironic, that the "first black president " is after riding back into the White House (albeit as First Gentleman, this time) on the back of racially charged politics .
One wonders if this sort of consideration (you know: what's fair, what's right, justice, truth, yada, yada...) ever comes up across the dining room table at the Clinton's, or if the conversation is all about advantage and posture.
We expect youth to be more idealistic than us wizened, cynical elders; so I wonder what Chelsea Clinton thinks of the white-black divide her mother is exploiting?
Chelsea recently told a questioner, basically, to just shut up , when she was asked about the possibly unsavory influence the Lewinsky "incident" had or has on her home life. I'm on Chelsea's side on that one, but "The Monica" is a singular subject if ever there was one. We'll see what we see, from Chelsey.
One thing she and her parents must know all too well is that she'll get few breaks from the public and the media. Yes, she's still a political "child," in the broad sense of being a political novice, untimely roped into her parent's ambitions; but she's nominally an adult nevertheless, and if she wants safety, she shouldn't be in the ring with the body-blows.
After all, if Chelsea calculates her political "experience" using the same method her mother does, she's already got more than thirty-five years under her belt. She's the scion of a dynasty, after all. If she ever does make her own moves, she can rely, as the dawn relies on the sun, on the advice and counsel of her illustrious parents.
One wonders if this sort of consideration (you know: what's fair, what's right, justice, truth, yada, yada...) ever comes up across the dining room table at the Clinton's, or if the conversation is all about advantage and posture.
We expect youth to be more idealistic than us wizened, cynical elders; so I wonder what Chelsea Clinton thinks of the white-black divide her mother is exploiting?
Chelsea recently told a questioner, basically, to just shut up , when she was asked about the possibly unsavory influence the Lewinsky "incident" had or has on her home life. I'm on Chelsea's side on that one, but "The Monica" is a singular subject if ever there was one. We'll see what we see, from Chelsey.
One thing she and her parents must know all too well is that she'll get few breaks from the public and the media. Yes, she's still a political "child," in the broad sense of being a political novice, untimely roped into her parent's ambitions; but she's nominally an adult nevertheless, and if she wants safety, she shouldn't be in the ring with the body-blows.
After all, if Chelsea calculates her political "experience" using the same method her mother does, she's already got more than thirty-five years under her belt. She's the scion of a dynasty, after all. If she ever does make her own moves, she can rely, as the dawn relies on the sun, on the advice and counsel of her illustrious parents.
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