Chelsea "was upset, bawled"..went to her employer and demanded time off

How nice...like mother, like daughter.. give me what I want OR ELSE!!!

How many of us could walk in and threaten our bosses..and still have a job by the end of the day??


Oh, and Bill, given that your daughter is adament about NOT talking to the press EVER, good luck with her running for any office except maybe dog catcher.
And I don't wanna hear that her actions and bawling are not fair game, given that her own father is tossing this out to the media.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/madame-presiden.html

"If you asked me (if Chelsea would run for office) before Iowa, I would have said, 'No way. She is too allergic to anything we do.' But she is really good at it," former President Bill Clinton tells PEOPLE magazine in their latest issue, hitting newsstands Friday.

In the PEOPLE exclusive, Clinton called his daughter's "emergence" the "second best thing" of the campaign, after his wife's "ability to endure in the face of all the blows that have been rained on her: outspent, dismissed, denigrated, declared dead...when I met her, I found that in her personal relationships she lacked self-confidence and was painfully shy. She is having more fun now than at the beginning. If you look at her, she seems perfectly relaxed, doesn't she?"

When asked what he's learned about Chelsea's political skills, Clinton told PEOPLE, "It all changed after Iowa. She realized her mother lost Iowa 100 percent because of younger voters. She was upset, bawled, went to her employer and said, 'Look, you got to let me go or give me an indefinite leave of absence. I'm not letting my mother go down like this.'"

had her replaced by a temp employee.

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Just like the job they arranged for Monica.

for what? obscene.

damn..... sounds like royalty to me.

Stop being so defensive of her. I wouldn't put up with that shit nor would most employees, but it looks like they will since she is the daughter of Bill and Hillary. This isn't aristocratic Europe but it seems like too many upper class Americans think it's supposed to be......

... without a professional degree and license - that's not in professional sports or entertainment.

;)

A passionate plea is going in and saying "Is there ANY way I can take SOME time off to help my mom" is one thing. "Maybe a 3 day weekend here and there, can I get off a little early once in a while to catch a flight to where ever..."

But going in and saying the following is signs of a spoiled brat: "you let me take off as MUCH and as long as I want or **I** am telling **YOU** that you WILL give me an extended leave of absence (i.e I will still have a job no matter what) and those are your **ONLY** 2 options.

By the way I have never once supported Hillary Clinton's candidacy.

And that you - as an Obama supporter - will see something like this in the worst light possible?

She's a 28 year old woman; investment analyst for a wall street firm and acts likes she's 12. Mommy and Daddy approve. Nice.

I can't stand any of them anymore. I hope soon we will be done with them.

was acting like she was 12-years old. Especially when she turned down that kid reporter from her school paper telling her she was part of the press.

I think Chelsea is basically a great young lady. But sure is nice when your family name gets you these high-priced jobs where you can take an indefinite leave of absence. Not dissing Chelsea, all the rich kids get this legacy including the Bush broods!

to be let go or leave of absense.

i don't think the 2 happened at the same time. she cried after the loss. and later on decided she wanted to help her mother full time and asked for the time off from the job.

:shrug:

Thanks - I didn't even realize I wrote that. :spank:

bad.

of course she has access and things that most don't. but she did it to campaign for her mother and help her. it was for a good cause. you can't blame her for that.

whatta buncha braggadocio.

Of course..when they were down here they only sent her to rallies with young SUBURBAN kids at 4 different suburban colleges.

If your complaint against Chelsea Clinton is that she's involved and supporting her mother, I think you're not very objective. If your complaint is that Chelsea showed emotion when signing up, then you're just mean.

She saw an opportunity to help her mother's campaign and she made a decision to take it. She's been great on the campaign trail and a real asset.

"when I met her (Hillary), I found that in her personal relationships she lacked self-confidence and was painfully shy."

What a patronizing, undermining thing to say. Very revealing.

I hate to say it, but there is a difference between Chelsea and the rest of us. She is the former president's daughter. Her life will never be "normal". Is it far more privileged? Of course. It is also under the microscope like none of us can imagine. Her name is likely an asset to the company for whom she works which is why she can come and go as she pleases. Chelsea is not an idiot like W. I am sure she actually has something to offer her employers.

Even John Fuckin Gotti left his enemy's daughters out of the feuds...

What's the point?

Go deliver a Sunday school lesson to someone else, I'm not interested.

not interested in dealing with assholes..

stage any more. She's fair game. Yet funny how her mother schmoozes with the very people who once called her the White House dog!

All the threads are trashy. Looks like people are desprete to find ways to trash the other guy.

I'm talking about BOTH groups!

I can't decide which one I am for.. cause both groups have been making me sick!

I'll vote come Nov.. but I don't think I will join to help who ever gets it. I don't think I can work with such nasty people. This will be the first time in years that I will set out.

It doesn't matter which group.. both are NASTY!

How hard would it to be to say "you know, that was really a private matter between Chelsea and her employer. I don't know the arrangements that were made".

She cried at home alone.

She talked to her employer the next day to say that she was leaving the firm to work on her mother's campaign and her employer offered her an indefinite leave of absence to hold onto a valuable employee.

I am a firm Obama supporter and if the anger about Hillary Clinton failing to step out of the race stays at the level of personal attacks on Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea even I -- who despise many of Bill & Hillary's policies and actions -- will be compelled to defend them.

:thumbsdown:

She wanted to campaign for her mother, what is the big deal? It is not that serious.

Sorry...had to.

Go away Clintons'.
Just leave already.

I do think Hillary, like me, is an introvert. Someplace here I read she may be an INTJ. That's what I am. She's not comfortable or consistent in group situations.

Chelsea a lawyer? I thought she worked in hedge funds.

She's not running for office... Obama can and is winning without having to stoop this low, we might be smart to follow his example.

the fact that her job would never really be in jeopardy is no fault of ther own.

More boring Clinton hate.

contrast her with the Gore girls and Amy Carter!

More so than any child of powerful parents anyway? Are you hanging on the wording used by the writer to reach that conclusion? "Bawled" instead of "took it hard"? What's wrong with "demanding" something from an employer if you feel strongly enough about it to walk away from that job if your "demand" is not met? Folks "demand" raises you know. Folks "demand" time off to take care of a sick relative. They are willing to leave their job if need be if their "demand" is not met because they feel strongly enough about it to do so.

Feeling strongly about wanting to personally help the campaign of a mother who she obviously is very close to seems pretty admirable to me.

people who didn't like Nixon liked them. Tricia and Julie weren't afraid to talk to the press, answered all questions, they never came off as spoiled brats.

"Let me go or give me time off" seems like a reasonable request to me.

She could have been let go.

If anything, her employer forced HER to get on the road with mom because a Clinton presidency was probably part of her job acceptance agreement.

She doesn't deserve the crap that I'm seeing in this thread. I'm disappointed by DUers right now.

That's quite outrageous. Although I still feel uncomfortable when families are dissed. Even the * girls.