Welcome CNN Readers & Commentors!

Imagine my surprise to find all these hits and comments on my blog, which previously hit it’s biggest day at 21 views last month!  Come to find out it’s all from you kind CNN folks following a link from their website to little ol’ me.

This appears also to be the reason why most of the commentors aren’t actually responding to my actual post, and more to the story about Chelsea and her media avoidance.    That would also explain the mysoginist accusations I’m getting from Hillary supporters.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not about to change my opinion about this issue.  I firmly believe that someone as well-educated and poised as Chelsea could certainly speak up for herself if she were permitted.  She can stump for Mommy all she wants, call all the superdelegates Penn tells her to.  It doesn’t change the fact that she’s clearly being restricted by someone, be it the campaign or her parents long arm of control.  Surely all you so quick to call me a traitor to women for my post can see the value in separating oneself from parents/controlling people/past dependent habits.   Maybe this is the real Chelsea.  Maybe she was raised to be as mechanical and unreachable as her mother.

I’d just like to see if she let’s loose once in a while.  Wouldn’t you?

Even CNN agrees with me about Chelsea Clinton

In an article on CNN’s website, “Campaign Role Ups Pressure On Chelsea Clinton to Talk to Media”, written mostly by the female reporters on the political beat, CNN declares that Chelsea’s arm’s length avoidance of the media can’t go on much longer.

The article points out Chelsea’s refusal to respond to anyone in the media, including a fourth-grade reporter from Scholastic News.  This distrust of the media has been ingrained in Chelsea since she was born, as evidenced by her parents’ treatment of the media.  Hillary hates answering questions that aren’t part of a scripted interview, and avoids media on the campaign trail in terms of interpersonal interactions.  The closest she gets is serving brownies on her campaign bus, complete with her trademark frozen smile a la mode.  Daddy Bill will outright argue and shake his famous finger at reporters when they head down a line of questioning he doesn’t approve of.

If Hillary is elected, can we expect the Clinton’s treatment and access to the media to improve?  Can we expect any less “spin” from them than we have from the Bush Administration?  The real truth lies in the hiring and continued employment of Mark Penn, Hillary’s senior strategist who really wants to be the Karl Rove of the Democratic Party, but just isn’t sharp enough.  Penn, you’ll recall, is the genius who decided that all the states Obama has won essentially “don’t count”.   Penn is responsible for the negativity Clinton has embraced in her campaigning, and while he is dividing her camp internally, Clinton continues to support his anti-everything message.

It’s time for all of the Clintons to grow up, and engage as real people rather than the monsters of spin they have become.  If they still remember how be real, it could be the thing that saves their campaign by reminding us why we liked them in the first place all those years ago.