Chelsea stumping for Hillary stomps question about Monica

Last year, Chelsea Clinton took a leave of absence from her high-paying job on Wall St. to stump on college campuses for her Mummy’s campaign.

The strategy was to have her siphon off Barack Obama’s youth vote while remaining in the bubble that shielded her from the media for the past 15 years. That is, unless it became expedient to exploit anything she said for political advantage.

This, of course, is why we’ve been treated to clips of Chelsea over the past 24 hours channeling her Mummy with uncanny verisimilitude during one of her college stops.

I am stupefied, however, by the near-universal praise she’s getting for her performance.

For the record, a student asked Chelsea if she thought Hillary’s credibility was shot because she laid down like a doormat in the wake of Bill’s affair with Monica Lewinsky (well, I paraphrase). To which Chelsea – manifesting self-righteous indignation that must have made her parents proud – replied:

“Wow, you’re the first person actually that’s ever asked me that question in the, I don’t know maybe, 70 college campuses I’ve now been to, and I do not think that is any of your business.”

But, with all due respect to Ms. Clinton (who is no longer 13 in case nobody noticed), “that” became every American’s business when her Daddy used the Oval Office for midday booty calls. And it became a contentious political issue when her Mummy blamed a vast right-wing conspiracy for her Daddy’s double-O assignations.

The “God damn” nerve of these Clintons will never cease…!

NOTE: Please attribute the typo in the caption above (i.e., “your” instead of you’re) to CBS News. (I added the caption below the picture.)

Chelsea Clinton