Showing posts with label Chelsea Clinton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chelsea Clinton. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Chelsea Clinton

for college, she opted to go to Stanford, at the far edge of the continent, and immerse herself in the subculture of tech rather than politics. After grad school at Oxford, she tried on a variety of non-political jobs—consulting, finance—before doing a second stint in grad school. She even flirted with a career in journalism (which must have given her media-hating mother such a migraine). But after that flurry of activity, where did she land? Neck-deep in the family business, running her father’s foundation and immersing herself in her mother’s presidential dreams. .......... Such choices have not been made without ambivalence. “It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?” Chelsea told Fast Company in 2014. “I’ve tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents.”..........But the Clinton gravitational pull is strong. And, her many talents notwithstanding, there is arguably no job for which Chelsea is more qualified—or, for now, more needed—than professional daughter...................But woe be unto her mom’s campaign if she behaves like your typical political veteran and picks any more fights.


This barb actually strikes me as sound political instincts. I have not been following the campaign too closely, but I read up some yesterday, and I also feel, if Bernie is vulnerable, it actually is on health care. The best thing Dems can do for now is protect Obamacare, not redo it. That is what is politically most viable. And if this was an unscripted moment for Chelsea, respect. If America could go the Canada route, Obama would have gone for it. It is out of deep appreciation for the peculiarities of American political culture that Obamacare was shaped.

Monday, April 08, 2013

Hillary 2016, Gay Marriage, And Technology

Hillary Clinton 1
Hillary Clinton 1 (Photo credit: Angela Radulescu)
I really like the idea of a woman president. That would be my number one reason to support Hillary. But my condition would be her running mate must be a woman, her Secretary of State must be a woman.

And you do want something cutting edge. Gay marriage as a federal proposition would be that cutting edge thing. This issue is more cutting edge than the idea of a woman president. But the two are kind of related. Both gays and women are sexual minorities in terms of how long they have been sidelined. They are but natural allies.

Hillary's weak point is technology. She famously said over a decade ago that she "can not think in front of a computer." Hillary is no Narendra Modi. Modi is tech savvy. But then Bill Clinton is not known for sending out emails, and the dude still presided over the dot com boom. It is because he balanced the budget. That basic arithmetic is still cutting edge politics. It should not be, but it is.

Like Nixon went to China, Hillary went to Burma. I think that is pretty cutting edge.

It is for tech entrepreneurs not the President Of The United States to hog the cutting edge in technology. So Hillary's weak point is not a weak point at all. All she has to do is assemble the right social media team and give them ample power. Old style fundraising and old style connecting and old style canvassing are passe. Obama 2008 is still cutting edge politics. She could simply rehire many of Obama's operatives, like Obama hired many Clintonistas once in power.

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