Chelsea Asked About Monica  

I know she handled it better than I would have. I probably wouldn't have been so polite. No matter what anyone's political opinions are, I think we have to show the children of politicians with respect. Chelsea is an adult now, yes, but she was a young teen at the time all that was going on and it doesn't matter if she lived in the White House or anywhere else in the world, that's a tough thing for a kid to go through.
Annie

You're right. Why would he even ask if her credibility was hurt, that makes no sense to me. To those here who criticize Hillary for staying in her marriage, I say nobody can know what goes on in another person's mind or heart. Everyone deals with personal difficulties in their own way and while for many people divorce is the only answer for others it's not that simple. Whatever either of their reasons were for staying married, I don't believe that has any bearing on Hillary's being capable of being a good President.
Annie

I have no idea why someone would do that. How oculd anyone NOT know it would be difficult for her to deal with? She's a human being and the thing is, for better or for worse, she obviously loves both of parents very much, or it sure looks that way when you see her with one or both of them on TV. I was impressed with how well she handled it, very calmly and quietly.
Annie

I think you're right, worldwise1. He claimed it's because of things his friends said about Hillary, I say that BS. I think we need to separate the personal from the public lives of our politicians. They have a right to privacy, in my opinion.
Annie

I really didn't think she was rude at all. She was soft-spoken, which I think is her nature, and her voice was even as she said "I think it's none of your business". I think she was absolutely right in saying that.
Annie

You're right. Somehow what she said sounded different in my head the first time I read it.

I completely misunderstood her statement the first time, thinking she was being sarcastic.

You're actually comparing the erased tape to the Monica affair? Talk about apples and oranges! Back to Chelsea, she is an adult and therefore has a right to answer or not answer any question asked of her. I have a lot more of a problem with the things Bush has been doing in the Oval Office and elsewhere throughout his Presidency which has shown no respect to the American people.
Annie

Apples to oranges? Do you know what was on that tape? If you do there are quite a few people who would even today pay dearly to find out! What if it was a bunch of moaning and carrying on, nobody knows because it was erased!
You are right, Chelsea had every right to answer the way she did but her answer did her mother absolutly no favors!
As far a GW disgracing the office of the President, Bill Clinton's record will stand to the end of time as the all-time number one disgrace! The man commited perjury, abuse of power and if the TRUTH were known, he and his lovely wife had a great deal more to do with the death (yeah right suicide)of Vince Foster! I hate to tell you people who believe that Vince commited suicide but you don't shoot yourself in the head with a handgun and remain in posession of the gun! The recoil of the gun itself will fling it out of your grasp not to mention nerve spasms of death! Granted, Vince COULD have commited suicide but if he did, someone moved the body!
Sorry to get so off-topic but anything Bill Clinton really jerks my chain!

"Apples to oranges? Do you know what was on that tape? If you do there are quite a few people who would even today pay dearly to find out! What if it was a bunch of moaning and carrying on, nobody knows because it was erased!"Precisely my point! This erased tape is important where Clinton's activities with an intern is not to anyone other than those directly involved.
"You are right, Chelsea had every right to answer the way she did but her answer did her mother absolutly no favors!"So, tell me, what would YOU have liked her to say? "My dad's a scum and my mom's a fool for staying with him"? That's the only thing you'd accept as the truth, isn't it?"As far a GW disgracing the office of the President, Bill Clinton's record will stand to the end of time as the all-time number one disgrace! The man commited perjury, abuse of power and if the TRUTH were known, he and his lovely wife had a great deal more to do with the death (yeah right suicide)of Vince Foster! I hate to tell you people who believe that Vince commited suicide but you don't shoot yourself in the head with a handgun and remain in posession of the gun! The recoil of the gun itself will fling it out of your grasp not to mention nerve spasms of death! Granted, Vince COULD have commited suicide but if he did, someone moved the body!
Sorry to get so off-topic but anything Bill Clinton really jerks my chain!"http://www.snopes.com/pol...
I guess Ken Starr was part of the "conspiracy" then, right? No need to apologize, your animosity toward anything Clinton is quite obvious and you have every right to feel that way. I'm much the same about anything Bush. The fact will always remain, when Clinton lied, nobody died!
Annie

Does someone have to die before what a president does while under contract with the American people in a government building and in a office used to conduct government business is a disgrace? I am a government employee and if I had done what Slick did I would no longer be one, yet HE got to keep his job, amazing!
Secondly, if president Bush lied to the American people the liberal democrats did too! They read the SAME reports as the president and nothing you or anybody else says can change that! It was the intelligence they had to go by at the time! Besides, even Slick Willie said there were still WMDs in Iraq not too long before Bush took over! Saddam was NOT that ignorant to defy America when he had nothing to hide! I don't know what is so hard to understand about that! He had them, we waited too long to go after him and he hid them, period! What's really scary is someday, and I believe sooner than later, we will have to deal with these WMDs again because SOMEONE knows where they are and will use them when the time is right for their purposes!

I agree. It was bound to come up sooner or later. Might as well have been prepared for it.

....and I might add, emotional scars often go with people well into adulthood, and I'm sure it was not easy for Chelsea seeing her dad dragged through the mud on national television.