{"id":180504,"date":"2017-03-29T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/29\/why-chelsea-clinton-running-for-office-would-be-a-disaster\/"},"modified":"2017-03-29T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T01:18:00","slug":"why-chelsea-clinton-running-for-office-would-be-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/29\/why-chelsea-clinton-running-for-office-would-be-a-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Chelsea Clinton Running for Office Would Be a Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Bruenig details the professional history of Chelsea Clinton, and it is a miasma and nepotism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If she runs for office, and it is clear that Hillary, at least, wants her to continue in the “family business”, her entry in politics would be a disaster:<\/p>\n

Rumors are that Chelsea Clinton is gearing up<\/a> to run for office. This is troubling news insofar as it might keep the Clinton machine and its hangers-on in politics. It also seems like a questionable idea insofar as Clinton is a nepotist legacy case whose whole career to this point has been hopping from one dodgy patronage job to another, not exactly the ideal image for the Democratic Party. <\/span><\/p>\n

McKinsey (2003\u20132006)<\/span><\/h4>\n

After graduating high school, Chelsea goes to Stanford and gets a degree in history and then goes to Oxford and gets a degree in international relations. So far, so banal.<\/span><\/p>\n

But after Oxford, Chelsea Clinton signed up with McKinsey, a consulting company known as an elite business training corps. She was the youngest in her class, hired at the same rank as those with M.B.A. degrees. Her interview was more like a conversation, said D. Ronald Daniel, a senior partner. \u201cThat\u2019s why she was a good consultant, because we are professional question-askers and professional listeners,\u201d Mr. Daniel said.\u200a \u2014\u200a New York Times<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite having no background in business, statistics, or any other related field, Chelsea gets hired by McKinsey straight out of Oxford alongside elite business school graduates. The interview process for that was \u201cmore like a conversation.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It goes on from there, and it’s an exercise in corrosive nepotism, including a gig with NBC that boils down to “$26,724 for each minute she subsequently appeared on air”<\/span> and I agree with Breunig’s final conclusion:<\/p>\n

You could not put together a more unappealing force in the world than what Chelsea Clinton represents, personally or politically.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It doesn’t make her a bad person, but it makes any entry into electoral politics by her an unmitigated catastrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Bruenig details the professional history of Chelsea Clinton, and it is a miasma and nepotism. If she runs for office, and it is clear that Hillary, at least, wants her to continue in the “family business”, her entry in politics would be a disaster: Rumors are that Chelsea Clinton is gearing up to run …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,728,374],"class_list":["post-180504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-nepotism","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}