Comments by "B Nic" (@bnic9471) on "Chelsea Clinton Considers Entering Politics... But Only A Little" video.

Obama bought a mansion in D.C., in the Kalorama 'hood. He even provided a suite in it for his brains, Valerie Jarret. Bet he's up to something., According to muckraker Ed Klein, however, Obama was said to have spent most of 2017 playing video games and smoking ganja. Michelle worries that the scent permeates the house and yard, scandalizing the neighbors. Maybe that's why his older daughter is such a junior burnout.
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If I had been handed the keys to the kingdom twice, then had pissed away the entire 8 years, I'd be scrambling for ways to "shape the narrative," too!
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Well, I'll bet he's still down with indicting a ham sandwich.
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So sick of presidents and presidential candidates who flit from one job to the next in order to build a résumé for the presidency. Herbert Walker Bush was one such. Hillary another. It's so obvious what those empty [pant]suits were trying to do. Compare that to a president with a long résumé, but who actually was effective in his previous jobs. TR. Eisenhower. Nixon, Truman. Even Trump. As an aside, I think one read on why people are so surprised at Trump's effectiveness is that we had become inured to career politician poseurs (John Edwards, John Kerry,) and heavily credentialed "experts" such as Herbert Hoover, Herbert Walker Bush, Al Gore, and so forth. None of whom ever got their fingers dirty except in carefully planned photo ops, really. So, we thought Trump was a complete, ignorant lout, when in fact he was flexible, pragmatic, something of a generalist, and used to thinking like a systems engineer about all manner of definite, concrete, brick-and-mortar projects, all with a budget and deadline. All requiring some practical and nimble skills. So, so, so qualitatively different from the work of standard-issue statesmen in recent times. What a marvelous thing to see---the lout showing up all the highly credentialed experts.
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:shudder: I would rather eat a bowl of cold oatmeal sprinkled with toenail clippings than see Chutney Clinton hold an office. The child is a dilettante and a thorough mediocrity. She writes books, but get a load of her prose style. Her parents wrote better when they were her age, and actually had something to say. Chutney is a good example of regression to the mean. And speaking of "mean", people who've worked with her say that she is as fussy and imperious as an unaccomplished child of famous parents can be.
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I groaned when I saw that he was launching the Obama Foundation. . . especially since he seems to have no particular mission for it stated anywhere. The first annual Obama Foundation convention sounded like a bit of a joke to me, too. Some member of the press covered it, and ended up doing the journalistic equivalent of a secret shopper review. Obama's foundation differs from the Clinton's cash vortex in an important way that favors Obama, but I can't recall exactly how. His intentions could be inferred as more ambitious, though, since the thing is still so amorphous. The Clinton Foundation at least had the pretext of presidential library startup.
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@sacrebleuthedeadlypokeofzo8566 Lazy and self-centered, to be sure, looking at his backstory. Sounds as if he had expected dictatorial powers, rather than having to schmooze and politick to get anything done. But . . . how could he spend so much time in Indonesia as a youth and not pick up the language?
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FDR did hold many of the same offices, but he wasn't a standout in all of them, as was his Oyster Bay cousin. In fact, the Oyster Bay relatives mocked him for being kind of a frivolous young man. Their nickname for him was "Feather Duster" Roosevelt. Dealing with polio after his failed VP candidacy in 1920 seems to have sobered him up considerably.
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So far, she's the equivalent of Marvin Bush.
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Charlotte in 2048! Actually, I hope Chutney and her parents follow in the footsteps of her criminal Mezvinsky in-laws.
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I forget who said it, but I recently heard someone opine that the Adams and Harrisons were not properly dynastic. The subsequent relative had no need of coattails in either case, and had other successes.
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I usually figure whoever the president happened to be after WWII, they've been strongarmed by the Derp State and other interests to one degree or another, but a couple of them have really made me wonder about a Manchurian candidate type of long-term preparation. Not as ominous as in the movie . . . just that some of them have been "discovered" while young, selected, then groomed. Not to someday be president and hand over the keys to the commies, but rather, to become president and be an empty suit for the guys who really feel entitled to run things. I mean, why did John Kerry become prominent in the hearings after he came home from Viet Nam? He remained in the public eye after that, but more or less as a cipher and a bit of a himbo, marrying the rich ketchup & beans widow. Why did Hillary Rodham get a spread in Life magazine for her vapid speech upon being graduated from Wellesly? And Obama may be the most perplexing "chosen nobody" of them all. Why does a person write a memoir in his 20s? Moreover, one he dragged his feet past deadline on. There is speculation that his agent or publisher sent a ghostwriter to light a fire under him . . . I forget who it was thought to be. The same people noted that the prose in the memoir was a bit better than Obama's usual. Even after law school, he sometimes still didn't bother to make subject and verb agree. Later on he was a . . . community organizer? What is that? A pared-down, codified version of MLK? A civil rights technician? Huh? Why did he dump an Asian woman he loved, saying his political future required that he marry a black wife? He was in college . . . Then there was his "constitutional scholar" gig. In his case, that meant a spot as an adjunct professor. My husband moonlighted as one of those, and didn't really think of himself as a "scholar." His day job was rocket test stand engineer at NASA . . . at the university as an adjunct professor, he was a grunt who enjoyed teaching electrical engineering to large classes of freshmen and sophomores for about $2,500 per semester. Then there was the Illinois State Senate and U.S. Senate, where there was never more timid a cipher than Barack Obama, mugwump extraordinaire. Who gave this charmed cipher the 2004 DNC keynote, of all plum speeches? How had Obama stood out in any way, up until that point? I voted for him in my Dem days, saw him speak, and was a regular diarist at Daily Kos when Sen. Obama made his first post to that blog. People fawned, but Obama's blog post was an arid, noncommittal pontification on the upcoming confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts. Then, his presidency. Took me less than 3 months to decide that he was a hopeless follower. Whom was he following? Whose attractive puppet was he? I still don't really know. But what I do know is that Barack Obama is the purest representation I know of a "post turtle".
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Cynthia. She was Richard and Pat's third daughter----the one they never liked to talk about.
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She has a lot of credibility to generate, since she hasn't shown herself capable of much. She can't even write an e-mail to her parents without sounding like a pretentious little twat.
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It's all that ganja. And he has always preferred that the world beat a path to his door rather than the converse. Apparently, during his terms in office, he never seemed willing to schmooze or persuade. People were just supposed to receive his wisdom and then carry out whatever he wanted.
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Another nine times, and the Clintons still will have not received all the scorn and ridicule due them.
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I second what Dubious said. She acted like Norma Desmond while running for president, thereby handing the nation over to its latest Gray Champion--just in the nick of time.
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Er, from Jimmy Buffet, you mean? I get what you mean, though, according to friends who blabbed to Ed Klein, Obama is not searching for his lost shaker of salt. It's more like his roach clip.
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Pierre Trudeau. Maybe Justin takes after his jet-setting, disco diva mother, Margaret. I don't remember the elder Trudeau being mocked because he wasn't ready for prime time.
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Not as a dynasty, I hope. Are you a crypto-monarchist, or something? On the other hand, few presidents will be remembered as vividly as Donald Trump will. He was an unlikely president, thrust on the stage at the very moment when it was most needful.
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@JdoubleU1222 I loathe HRC, but I think she was a lovely woman back in the day, when she wasn't doing the Coke bottle glasses and hairy leg thing. Odd, too, because nobody else in her family was particularly good-looking. I still think she looks okay for someone her age, despite the gallon of botox. Chutney is a different story. She looks a lot like the horse-faced Virginia Cassidy--Bill's old floozy mother. I don't buy the Hubbell rumor, at all. In fact, John McCain once spilled the beans at a fundraising dinner. "You know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly?" he asked the room. No one really had an answer. "It's because Janet Reno is her father," McCain replied.
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GMTA. I remarked on the same thing above. She strikes me as being very unaware of herself . . . bestowing the most vapid of tweets upon us. Her IQ is known: 127, which is quite a bit lower than Hill (140) and Bill (138). 127 is nothing to sneeze at, but she's never had to do anything, so why would she live up to even a 127 IQ? Quite the hothouse flower.
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I'd like to see them all held accountable for their massive charity fraud. How rotten must they be inside to steal earthquake refugee donations and give ineffective HIV drugs to African patients? And those things are the first of many moral failing and criminal acts. Done in our names, at times. At least send them back to an Arkansas trailer park. Such trash. Even Bill's library resembles a trailer house, jutting over the river.
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George P. Bush (the cute Latino son of Jeb's), is trying for Texas land commissioner now.
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Well, I hear that she can fly into a rage just like her mother. And she will not tolerate being spoken to before she first speaks to you. She also reacts badly to being interrupted. This is from the folks who guided her through her NBC sinecure.
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By some accounts, the Clintons had fertility trouble and consulted with specialists about it. He had a poor sperm count. Additionally, she didn't much care for sex. With him, at any rate. He lobbied her to try to conceive because being childless was "poor optics" for his type of politician. She relented, and a swimmer found the target on some Carribean island. Bermuda, maybe. To make a long story short, HRC hated being off of work and handed the baby off to state-employed nannies after 3 months. She was all about her work. It sounds as if Bill was an affectionate father, though. Richard Nixon once witnessed Chelsea, age 13, enter the family quarters and make a bee line for Bill. Nixon told Monica Crowley that it looked as if the child was frightened of her mother. He thought everyone around her appeared frightened by HRC.
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George and Laura Bush were yet another subfertile presidential couple. That they had tried a long time, then had fraternal twins suggests (but does not prove) their having resorted to clomiphene citrate or possibly some other injectable drug to stimulate ovulation.
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