Chelsea’s Iowa Debut

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NYT

By Jeff Zeleny

DES MOINES – With Oprah Winfrey headed here on Saturday to campaign for Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton brought a surprise guest of her own: Chelsea Clinton.

It was Ms. Clinton’s debut on the presidential campaign trail, smiling broadly as she walked into Palmer’s Deli a few steps behind her mother for a breakfast photo opportunity. She shed her coat and immediately began shaking hands and mingling with Iowa supporters who were seated among the diners.

“Chelsea, delighted to meet you,” said Julia Martinusen, 49, who signed up as a Clinton supporter in recent weeks. “I was just wondering where you’d been.”


Hillary and Chelsea Clinton eat breakfast during a campaign stop at Palmer’s Deli and Market in Des Moines. (Photo: Joshua Lott for The New York Times)

“I’m happy to be here,” Ms. Clinton replied.

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[tammywammy]

1. What's that Hillary's eating?

Noodles?


BTW, looks like it was a good event for the Clinton's. Nice to see Chelsea.

[Bullet1987]

2. Chelsea...who?

GOBAMA!!!

[journalist3072]

9. How ignorant of you.

[ronnykmarshall]

11. No shit.

[Nedsdag]

16. Oh, pipe down!

Chill, meditate, and calm down.

[tammywammy]

13. I was just going to ignore it

I figured they were being "cute" since it was followed up with GOBAMA.

:eyes:

Can't I say something nice about Hillary & Chelsea even though I'm an Obama supporter. Wait, is that against the GD:P rules. :P

[Tresalisa]

3. LOL! Sure looks like noodles,

but the news reports said they had omelettes. I've had 'em be so cheesy that you feel like you're fighting a losing battle to get the whole bite into your mouth.

It is nice to see Chelsea, she's a beautiful young lady.

[tammywammy]

4. That must be it - cheesy omelets

[Whisp]

5. you gotta break a lot of omelets to get all those bad egg terrorists.

more war, please.

[ronnykmarshall]

12. Making me hungry

mmmmmmm surpy!

[juajen]

15. Thank you for you nice words. I do plan on voting for Obama

in the future. I believe he has great promise.

[Countdown_3_2_1]

6. Chelsea looks like her mom. Sweet Kid.

But Chelsea cannot eclipse Oprah. Hillary lost Iowa. Its all over except for the voting.

[surfermaw]

7. A loss to John Edwards.. Oh Yes.

[flordehinojos]

8. syrupy pancakes too?

[BeyondGeography]

10. Chelsea's looking gooooood

Says a lot of sensible things, too. What a life; hope she writes a book about it someday. A real one.

[itsrobert]

14. Too bad Mom is not cooking her a home-cook meal

Or maybe that's a good thing?

[juajen]

17. Actually, since she is 27, she should be coooking a homemade

meal for her tired Mom. She is a cutie pie. She has always had remarkable presence when she was little and, even more so, now when she is grown. I would love to see a white house wedding starring her.

[VarnettaTuckpocket]

18. Has Chelsea said she supports gay marriage, like Edwards' daughter and wife have?

I know, maybe she's never been asked, but I'm curious. And especially if Hillary gets the nomination, Chelsea should be asked. I'm willing to give a pass to the actual candidates for not publicly supporting gay marriage, because it's undeniably a huge hot button issue, but not so with the families. I would resent it if Chelsea's opposed to gay marriage, I'm also curious what Michelle Obama has to say on the subject.

*Bill gets a pass as a former politician*