Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea Clinton has come out from behind her privacy screen to campaign for her mother. Good for her. She has something to say and says it to mostly receptive audiences. It's her right -- a very highly protected right -- to speak about politics, or anything else she choses. But recently, she decided that she wanted to make her select remarks without facing questioning from anyone she remotely suspected of being a reporter. A child named Sydney Rieckhoff, a reporter for a kid-newspaper asked "Do you think your dad would be a good 'first man' in the White House?" Clinton condecended with "I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately...even though I think you're cute." Ouch. Further, she determined that she need not respond to any questions pertaining to the last months of her father's presidency. She told one questioner that "it's none of your business."

Oh yes it is sweetie! If your mother is elected, your father won't be far away from her, nor far away from the center of American political decision making. We've seen Bill in action, both for better and for worse. Chelsea's opinions and recollections are relevant. Perhaps being a White-House daughter and a Stanford-educated rich kid has given her a self-induced sense of regal superiority.

Ms. Clinton, it's not complicated. Either answer the questions from whomever about whatever, or go back into your ultra-private snobby fetal ball.