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Bill Clinton ?@billclinton 2m
Couldn't be prouder of @ChelseaClinton today. Congrats on your doctorate. pic.twitter.com/M4PiBFqUej
Daniel W. Drezner ?@dandrezner 17m
Wait, @ChelseaClinton now has a Ph.D. in international relations?! http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/chelsea-clinton-receive-doctorate-oxford-23662285
Oxford City Guide @OxfordCityGuide
Just another set of tourists in Oxford...almost. Bill and Hillary Clinton in The Bod - 10 May 2014
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)as a child. How much more evil can a person be?
lame54
(35,292 posts). . . it is Mother's Day.
Hillary leaves the famous Randolph Hotel (Image courtesy of Jane Cahill)
moriah
(8,311 posts)Chelsea did that because she COULD. Period.
BTW--I'm just waiting for Hillary to take over and put the clowns in their right place!
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)lame54
(35,292 posts)I guess it's never so obvious
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)And are allowed to.
moriah
(8,311 posts)And I hope you didn't take my post as calling *you* a troll.
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)it's not obvious that it's not sarcasm. I caught it as sarcasm immediately, but considering the outlandish rhetoric recently...it sounds straight out of the mouth of a clown on Fox and Friends...
malaise
(269,022 posts)bigtree
(85,996 posts)Bill leaves the Randolph Hotel
tweeted by, Rosie Thomas ?@RosieMaryT 21h
#firstfirsthusband pic.twitter.com/MfFZhp73pz
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)for a major accomplishment. I'm curious to see what she chooses to do with her new doctorate.
bigtree
(85,996 posts)Thank you for the good graduation wishes!
10:36 AM - 10 May 2014
Damansarajaya
(625 posts)bigtree
(85,996 posts)Chelsea Clinton was spotted alongside her mother this afternoon (Image courtesy of Jane Cahill)
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)I don't know about you all but I can't wait for Chelsea to be our POTUS.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)but certainly we can recognize a job well done when it presents itself, regardless of the recipient, his/her wealth, or lack thereof.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)and I would have certainly praised her equally had there been one. I'm sure others would do the same. There really is room for praise for both.
aquart
(69,014 posts)Let me guess, still no praise?
bigtree
(85,996 posts). . . bookmarking
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)mopinko
(70,112 posts)says a lot of about you.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Yea that's right. I don't like rich people and the fawning over them. There are poor people who studied their way into a scholarship that are worthy of praise. Your response does indeed say much about you!
moriah
(8,311 posts)... future academic achievements the same way. After all, the Obamas are quite wealthy and have become more so thanks to the Presidency.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts)Chelsea was and is a very bright individual. I was of an age with her (she's a few days younger than I am) and grew up in the same town. She went to public schools, and one of my friends was her classmate at Horace Mann (a magnet junior high) prior to going to DC. She had already skipped a grade in school by the time she left Arkansas. She was a National Merit semifinalist in the same year I was also one (though I beat her to college by a few months thanks to early admission) which would have earned her scholarships as it did me, and graduated from Stanford with highest honors.
This is a political discussion forum, a Democratic political discussion forum at that. When something makes headlines related to prominent Democrats, it's going to be posted here.
It's sad that you feel you must devalue an achievement simply because of animus toward a girl's parents.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Well we wouldn't know who she is without her parents ...where as the homeless girl from NYC got her self a scholarship and went to Harvard. That IMO is very praise worthy.
moriah
(8,311 posts)But it's not *all* rich people you despise so much, or you wouldn't have gotten irked about me calling you on the fact our current President is far better off than most of us ever will be.
Chelsea's gotten flak from the moment her father was elected, and I guess I shouldn't expect it to stop now. It's just really sad to see it come from Democrats. I expected similar frothing at the mouth over her daring to be successful in her life at Free Republic, not here.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)ad infinitum.
catbyte
(34,393 posts)anymore than that homeless NYC student. Would you rather she was a useless, Paris Hilton type?
Response to L0oniX (Reply #20)
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L0oniX
(31,493 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Then he raised a child with a work ethic anyone should respect.
NOBODY gets a doctorate without putting in the sweat and the thought.
Seen any Bushes with that degree? Any Kochs?
And the Clintons are very well off, but Chris Rock has a brilliant routine that will teach even the dumbest to distinguish between what they have and REAL money. Catch it on YouTube.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)the bush girls just flew around the country at tax payers expense partying and getting publicly drunk while making a spectacle of themselves while MSM kept it quiet. GO CHELSEA!!!! You did good girl.
Cha
(297,275 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)You don't have to congratulate her on her doctoral degree, which I'm sure she earned legitimately, but there's also no reason to snark at her over it. Pretty disappointing, I think, and unseemly, to boot. She got a degree. Mom and Dad are proud of her. It's not a political issue at all.
Good for Chelsea, I say, and to everyone who earns their PhD.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)I am really puzzled as to why people care so much about the success of rich people above the successes of people in the lower class. To me it means so much more as an example if a poor and even homeless person makes it to college on a scholarship than one born into a rich family.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)success, I'm glad to hear it. Chelsea is no exception. It's in the news, of course, because of who her parents are. That's inevitable, since the news media are interested in people who are or have been newsworthy.
When we see news about someone who is disadvantaged and still achieves success, we're all pleased by that, too. Today, the news had a story about Chelsea Clinton getting her PhD. Good for her. Recently, we heard news about her pregnancy. That's nice, too. We hear the news because her parents are notable. We don't hear about our neighbor who has gotten pregnant or earned a PhD. If we do know about it, we offer our congratulations.
What is small and unseemly is to take such an achievement and comment on it through snark. That's what you have done. And, as you've seen, a number of people find your snark to be ill-considered.
You are certainly free to snark as you please, but everyone else is also free to criticize such snarkiness, which some have done.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)JI7
(89,250 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)JI7
(89,250 posts)be ignored.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)than Chelsea Clinton.
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)DFW
(54,397 posts)She was born to the Governor of Arkansas, who was making less than $40,000 a year.
Kind of a low bar for "rich."
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,246 posts)"what's wrong with you? I was just kidding." - Reminds me of this post. What's the sarcasm thingie in you post? Is that about the "nice wholesome filthy rich family" part or the "I can't wait for Chelsea to be our POTUS" or both? Maybe you should just take it out and say what you want to say.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)I've never been in an abusive relationship, but my mom, some friends and both my sisters were abused by their husbands. The scars can heal, but you never forget.
My best to you.
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)PA bullshit has always gone right through me.
Couldn't agree more.
llmart
(15,540 posts)When I'd call him out on his verbal abuse it was always "I was just kidding". He was "kidding" a lot and for a long time and then one time he "kidded" me one last time and the next thing he knew he was being served divorce papers.
People make comments like that because of something they lack in their own sense of self-worth. Why this poster would post on a thread about an ex-Democratic President's daughter's success with such venom is beyond me.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)and then King William Arthur Philip Louis and finally the digitized soul of Larry Page and interesting enough this will be the same year Fox cancels the Simpsons.
moriah
(8,311 posts)She's stayed remarkably well out of politics for the daughter of such prominent politicians. She had enough grief when Bill was President, I can't blame her.
AAO
(3,300 posts)DFW
(54,397 posts)She interned for Emily's List and hung around with then-Senator Obama and Howard Dean a bit, but she didn't go into politics. She didn't even stay in the States.
AAO
(3,300 posts)I hope I misunderstood you.
Maybe the fact that she is (also) a German citizen disqualified her from anyone being interested in asking her to do something more political.
She paid her dues. When other kids were seeking to clerk for the Supreme Court during summer break, she asked for (and got) a posting with UN War Crimes Tribunal in Sierra Leone. Managed to catch some ugly infection that was treated by some local doctor who fed her bogus antibiotics and she nearly died (some UN personnel figured out what was going on, and saved her life with some real medicine out of their stash).
She could have waited on tables in the States or she could take the offer of something more intellectually challenging in Germany, and she chose the latter. When it comes to our daughters' careers, we were very much pro-choice. We left it in her hands, and she made the choice.
AAO
(3,300 posts)DFW
(54,397 posts)Don't EVER get on her bad side when she is tired or hungry!
Other than that, she is extremely dedicated to everything she gets involved with. Emily's List said she was the best intern they ever had. Her English is so good at this point, you'd never know it wasn't her mother tongue (same goes for her older sister who stayed on in the States after going to college there).
My brother and I had the good fortune to inherit a modest sum of cash when our parents died, and we plowed ALL of it into our children's education in the States. Seems like it was a better investment than a bigger house or fancier cars. My older nephew just got his Doctorate from Stanford (the media must have missed that one, but we don't care) and his younger brother is learning Arabic (has interned in Jordan and the US Embassy in Tunisia) and is now in graduate school for International Relations in New York--makes sense for a kid with one parent from the USA, one from Japan, and not one cousin whose native language is English.
classof56
(5,376 posts)No sarcasm intended.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Evergreen Emerald
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Hillary and bill were raised middle class. They achieved the American dream. Why would you
Begrudge them success?
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)on their daughter in any way. After all, none of us choose our parents.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)trying to alienate other democrats based on the size of their bank account?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)JI7
(89,250 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)JI7
(89,250 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Disabled people can't hate you because you can walk?
Single people can't hate you if you have someone?
Blind people can't hate you because you can see?
The friendless can't resent you for your friends?
You're not spoiled because you have these things?
You don't have an unfair advantage over anybody?
You were born with zero advantages over anyone?
Only you are beyond reproach for your advantages?
I can't beleive I have to spell this out for you.
This "I hate the rich just because they are rich" narative is a pretty immature position.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Sounds like what the GOP would say about populists and or unionists.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)misread you are free to clarify your previously contested statements.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)The Clinton's don't qualify as true democrats to you, right? And therefore this thread looks like nothing more than entertainment news about the rich and famous or worse, congratulating the success of some GOP's daughter?
Good point. I have to agree the Clinton's are watered down democrats compared to other democratic representatives we could be focusing on.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)From post #9 onwards. If you have not meant to give the impression that you hate the rich just because they are rich, then you have lousy communication skills. For instance, post #20: "I don't like rich people".
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)you read into that?!?!
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)I'm as disgusted as anyone at what our faux-aristocracy has done to the rest of us. But I don't see how every individual born into wealth is personally to blame.
DFW
(54,397 posts)Unless a $35,000 a year salary as Governor of Arkansas is "wealth."
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)DFW
(54,397 posts)Clinton didn't come into serious money until after he left office in 2001. Chelsea was nearly 21 by then. No one starts their academic career at 21. You're either already on your way by that age or you never will be (unless you're Adrian Cronauer, and he is not typical of anyone).
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)DFW
(54,397 posts)He only got $200K, and after taxes, you still have to pay personal expenses out of your own pocket. $200K as POTUS is no bargain.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)She had everything handed to her on a silver platter thanks to the wealth and power of her parents. So we should be celebrating she did something besides partying like the bush twins? She should succeed, there is nothing standing in her way like it is with most people.
If a middle class or poor person had done this, it would be an amazing accomplishment. Because she is so rich, it's not really all that impressive.
Personally, I really do dislike most rich people just because they are rich. Yes, I will admit it. Rich people are usually self satisfied, over indulged brats. They have poor people skills and tend be ignorant no matter how many degrees they buy. They expect the world to bow down to them just because they were born into wealth and have advantages others do not have. I find them tedious, arrogant and stupid. Most contribute nothing to society except to deteriorate it a little more for a little more wealth or power.
But most Americans are fascinated by the wealthy and to admit you find the wealthy immoral, greedy and tedious is to stray from the standard American religion of wealth worship.
NBachers
(17,117 posts)for a lofty critic like you?
Number23
(24,544 posts)tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)In the past 2 years, I'm really feeling the middle class destruction, and I don't want to watch the rich celebrate anymore.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)sheshe2
(83,785 posts)And a Happy Mothers Day to Hilary and Chelsea!
Thanks bigtree, great photos~
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)and Congratulations to Mark and Chelsea re baby
and congratulations to all moms
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)International relations, eh?
I see a smart, benevolent Secretary of State in the making!
NJCher
(35,677 posts)be getting her Ph.D.? Anyone know?
Cher
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I really hate it when kids are attacked when their parents are the candidates.
To her credit, she has done work for UNICEF, and I used to think she was a closet Dem.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Please note this, from the second link by the OP:
The younger Clinton, a special correspondent for NBC News, is a graduate of Stanford University and holds master's degrees from Oxford and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
During an appearance on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in April, the former president noted that once his daughter receives her doctorate, she will have four degrees. (bf mine)
"She'll have as many as her parents do combined," Bill Clinton said. "When she was younger, the way all kids are, she thought she knew more than I did about everything. But alas, in my dotage, it turned out to be true!"
Impressive, even if she didn't have to worry about college loans and paying them back.
If you read the articles, you see she spends a good deal of time on public health issues. If you're a person with a conscience and who has been fortunate to get a place in life like she has, that's what one does.
Hey, she could spend her time using her family's name to make even more money. There are plenty of people around who would love to "help" her do so.
Cher
Zipgun
(182 posts)I am interested to see what she does in the future.
NBachers
(17,117 posts)Also- Hey Zipgun- Welcome to Democratic Underground
Marc Bolan- Zip Gun Boogie
Now that is a little gem I did not know about. Thanks again.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)still a ranting troglodyte whose remaining advertisers have to hold their nose. The Limbaughs and Sterlings and Hannitys and Becks of this world are dying off...politically, if not in the RIP sense of the word.
Between Kevin Durant and Chelsea Clinton and Jason Collins and Michael Sam (the NBA, Women's Issues, LGBT Issues and the NFL) and all the others who are breaking old rickety, outworn social structure and barriers, it's a sign of things to come and gives one hope. They are newsworthy because they have a positive influence on many people...whether of talent or birth does not matter.
bigtree
(85,996 posts)Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second left, takes off her sunglasses to pose for a group photograph with her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton, left, their daughter Chelsea, second right, and her husband Marc Mezvinsky, as they leave after they all attended Chelsea's Oxford University graduation ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, England, Saturday, May 10, 2014. Chelsea Clinton received her doctorate degree in international relations on Saturday from the prestigious British university. Her father was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford from 1968 to 1970. The graduation ceremony comes as her mother is considering a potential 2016 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)to Chelsea. She has come so far while we have all watched. I am proud of her too.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)the far left in that pic looks a little uncomfortable, judging by his facial expression.
bigtree
(85,996 posts). . . in-laws
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)Not everyone is comfortable posing for cameras.
JI7
(89,250 posts)one reason i could never run for office.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)lots of us are proud of you - not just your mom & dad.
peace to you, honey
bigtree
(85,996 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)Oxford!
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Why is Chelsea's PhD such a big deal? I mean, Willow Palin completed cosmetology school and DU ignored her.
bigtree
(85,996 posts). . . it's a blast to see the young lady I watched grow up in the WH accomplish so much (her fourth degree).
As an individual, the work that she's chosen to involve herself in isn't inconsequential to many issues and concerns that we focus on here at DU; hunger, disease, education, families . . .
Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, works with her parents, President Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, to drive the vision and work of the Clinton Foundation . . .
Chelsea focuses especially on the Foundation's health programs, including the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which strengthens health care and access to lifesaving services in the developing world; the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, which fights childhood obesity in the United States; and the Clinton Health Matters Initiative, which addresses preventable disease in the United States. She also established and continues to lead the Clinton Foundation Day of Action program, which identifies and organizes meaningful service opportunities for Foundation staff, friends, and partners and for the wider Foundation community. As one of the strongest champions of the Clinton Global Initiative University, Chelsea works to empower the next generation of change makers to take action on some of the world's most urgent challenges. And through the Clinton Foundation Millennium Network, Chelsea plays an integral role in inspiring young leaders and philanthropists to get involved in the work of the Foundation.
In addition to her Foundation work, Chelsea is a special correspondent for NBC News. She previously worked at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital.
Chelsea also serves on the boards of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the School of American Ballet, Common Sense Media and the Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Of Many Institute at NYU. Chelsea holds a B.A. from Stanford, a MPhil from Oxford, and a MPH from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health . . .
. . . Willow
llmart
(15,540 posts)Thanks for the laugh!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)calimary
(81,298 posts)Excellent! I'm proud of her, too!
Skittles
(153,164 posts)happy for the Clintons
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)SpankMe
(2,957 posts)Reminds me of the beginning of a joke: A former president, a PhD, and a future president walk in to a bar...
House of Roberts
(5,174 posts)Does Hillary have a PhD?
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)So proud of her. You go girl!
Hekate
(90,708 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)You have to have ambition and ability to pursue a PhD;
it simply can't be bought.
Why should her personal success make anyone feel bitter ?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Congrats to The Clintons, and Chelsea in particular.
nikto
(3,284 posts)DFW
(54,397 posts)No long speech, but it was obvious then that this was a woman with brains of her own who needed no one to prop her up because of her name. The greatest asset Bill and Hillary gave her was the genes to be an intelligent thinking individual in her own right. The rest was gravy, but not vital.
Ino
(3,366 posts)Worked at a major university for 16 years to get free tuition for her son, and earned herself a Master's and a PhD in her spare time. Now THAT is something to be proud of. Then the university eliminated her position. The unemployment office said, "Oh honey, you're never going to get a job."
Way to gooooooo Chelsea
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)I mean, Bristol Palin has a GED and was on Dancing With The Stars!!!!