@Stirge: Yes, from what I hear she is beautiful on the inside, so kudos to her for that. Most people in her shoes would be awful, highly spoiled jerks. So I'll certainly give credit where credit is due.
Actually, I worked with Chelsea while she was a consultant at McKinsey. For six months, she worked out of the conference room next to my office with a dozen or so other McKinseyites. I gotta say that she is a normal, down to earth woman. She was very gracious, low-key and composed. Strangely enough, I never noticed any Secret Service protection, although I'm sure they were around.
I grew up next door to the Mezinskys. Their house was named Terrier Hall and it has all of these hideous ceramic terriers on the front yard that my mother would always complain about.
"If there is one thing I learned this Thanksgiving, it's this: I [insert your name here] am wonderful and yet my siblings are royal fuck-ups."
If our national holidays teach us anything, it's that the whole parenting thing is a giant crap shoot. So please stop with the "Clintons are wonderful parents" stuff. They are a closer to the template of how not to parent - an absent, sex addict father and a not very available mother. If the Clintons had a son, he'd probably be splitting time between rehab and catching STDs from Paris H. .
@SisterCarrie: Yup. Love is never enough. And we've set the bar really low here. Are we to celebrate every time some celebrity kid doesn't show up in tabloids drunk or high? This kid is probably an ace at keeping up appearances and maintaining the image of a clean-cut all-American success story. The reality is probably very different. Conservatives don't make for the only bad parents around.
There is really nothing else I can say about that. Despite all their issues as a couple it is clear that the Clintons did know how to do one thing very right, raise a daughter who is extremely intelligent, and staying out of the tabloids for drunken stupid behavior.
@gawkimo: I cannot fathom what it must be like to be the child of a President. Particularly the child of a President who had to go through puberty under the watchful eye of the American public (and be lampooned in the process). So - if this lovely young girl blossoms into a well-adjusted, accomplished woman, should we not be happy for her and give credit where credit is due?
Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.
And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
@Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
@Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
@Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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I think the Clintons must be some pretty good parents, because Chelsea seems to have grown up scandal free and happy.
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"If there is one thing I learned this Thanksgiving, it's this: I [insert your name here] am wonderful and yet my siblings are royal fuck-ups."
If our national holidays teach us anything, it's that the whole parenting thing is a giant crap shoot. So please stop with the "Clintons are wonderful parents" stuff. They are a closer to the template of how not to parent - an absent, sex addict father and a not very available mother. If the Clintons had a son, he'd probably be splitting time between rehab and catching STDs from Paris H. .
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There is really nothing else I can say about that. Despite all their issues as a couple it is clear that the Clintons did know how to do one thing very right, raise a daughter who is extremely intelligent, and staying out of the tabloids for drunken stupid behavior.
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Congratulations to the happy couple!
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Tut. Tut.
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WeepyVP JoeAnd he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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