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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrench-Canadian newspaper Sympatico says Chelsea Clinton Makes Money Due To Her Name Only.
http://actualites.sympatico.ca/nouvelles/blogue/chelsea-clinton-fortune-nomAnd press from France especilly liberal one does the same.
And I dont completly disagree with them. They overact their description of her of course. ...but surely a popular family name and parents helps a lot. As well as in France political spectrum and artistic world is overfilled with "sons and daughters of..."
bigtree
(86,005 posts). . . a fucking french-canadian rag?
Cest des conneries!
No fan of Hillary here, but I agree
It's not even an actual newspaper
DU is just weird lately
Throd
(7,208 posts)mylye2222
(2,992 posts)And a very qerious one wich I often buy for his powerfull African international views...goes the same way although they are way softer...
http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/JA2789p062.xml0/
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)That said, nobody would pay to hear her if her name were not Clinton...she is simply way too young and inexperienced to have any special insight into any topic...she gets paid because politics is all about access and being nice to a Clinton has its benefits.
That said, I still will vote for Hilary.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)I'll post what I bothered to collect for the people so certain they're talking about some little girl.
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She is an advocate for womens rights, AIDS research and global LGBT rights and other humanitarianism.
In her junior year, Clinton changed her major from medicine to history and began work on her thesis project: the Northern Ireland peace process. After delivering her 167-page thesis, Clinton headed to Oxford University in England to pursue a master's degree in International Relations.
In addition to serving as co-chairperson for her father's Clinton Foundation, the former first daughter is also on the board of the School of American Ballet.
In 2011, Chelsea pushed the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which had historically focused on driving down the prices of HIV and AIDS vaccines, to do the same for Zinc/ORS, the leading treatment for diarrhea, which is the second-leading killer of children under 5 years old in the developing world. One of the first countries it targeted was Nigeria, but negotiating with the government, NGOs, public-sector organizations, pharma companies, and others threatened to endlessly delay the effort. According to Guariglia, the team asked Chelsea if she "could facilitate it--get the right players at the table, get them to commit to this program." After a couple of weeks of intense preparation, Chelsea traveled to Nigeria and "went around to every partner, knew exactly what we needed from them, pledged her support and belief in this program, and got them to commit," says Guariglia. Her academic work (she's finishing her PhD in global health governance) armed her with the ability to talk about the issues, and she was able to get each player to understand how their role was important in the bigger picture. "Without her, it would have taken months of meetings," says Guariglia. Prices of Zinc/ORS have been cut by 40% to 60% in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.
In 2013 President Clinton and his daughter traveled through Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Malawai, and South Africa to advance various Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) goals. After helping to promote malaria awareness and HIV testing, the high-profile duo visited Cyugaro Primary School in Rwanda to help decontaminate drinking water.
The Clintons visit to the Rwandan school was part of CGI and Procter and Gamble's Commitment to Save One Life Every Hour -- a campaign dedicated to providing clean drinking water to areas in need. President Clinton said that such programs provide an effective solution where a lack of access to potable drinking water leads to 80 percent of the diseases from which Rwandans suffer.
Its one of the simplest things we can do to save lives, President Clinton said in a recent press release.
In addition to providing clean water in Rwanda, the Clintons also visited Zanzibar to host a malaria-awareness soccer match, where fans and attendees had access to disease testing.
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton deployed their mother-daughter star power to help the effort to save African elephants, brokering an $80m effort to stop the ivory poaching which threatens the animals with extinction.
The crackdown on 50 poaching hot spots in Africa involves several conservation groups and African governments. But conservation leaders, unveiling the plan at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting, went out of their way to credit Hillary Clinton for giving prominence to the issue of the illegal trade in wildlife while she was secretary of state.
The initiative brings together the main conservation groups, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the African Wildlife Foundation, Conservation International, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the World Wildlife Fund, as well as a number of African governments. These include Botswana, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Kenya, South Sudan, Malawi and Uganda.
more on Chelsea and Bill in Africa: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5163434
. . .and joeybee12, I really don't give a damn what you personally think of her.
Nuff said ...
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)If you don't think 99% of her allure is the name, you really don't know anything about how politics work...any slight criticism of any person you happen to like...Obama or the Clintons and you go on a rant...there are THOUSANDS of people who do more than what Chelsea has done and who have far better insight, and yet they don't pull in that kind of money. Spare me your indignation.
bigtree
(86,005 posts). . .and there you are again, speaking out of your ass.
I've made countless posts criticizing the Clintons or Obama for something or the other. No one can read the hundred or so articles I've written opposing this administration's military policy and conclude that I'm just tilting against criticism of him.
Is this 'ranting' against criticism of Hillary? Just this morning . . .
Cali's post: Hillary Clinton's Inequality Rhetoric Is Weak
bigtree (52,597 posts)
14. It's not only weak, it's been nothing less than dissembling lately
. . . I suspect that's because she's afraid of offending moneyed interests. I just cringe when I read her remarks on the subject . . .
You were wrong to claim this woman is just riding on her name. I showed you why. Deal with it.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)a "rant." YOURS, OTOH, is.
But of course, a famous name who draws attention to the issues being worked on by those unheralded "THOUSANDS of people who do more than what Chelsea has done and who have far better insight" is a BAD thing.
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)Kick to you.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)It comes with the territory, I think.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)Oh look, an article by the same guy about Pres. Obama being the worst President in 70 years...
http://actualites.sympatico.ca/nouvelles/blogue/barack-obama-pire-president-des-etats-unis
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Yeah a lot of twenty somethings with ZERO actual accomplishments are pulling that in. Anyone who does not see this has their head too far up a certain person's ass.
moriah
(8,311 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)what has she been up to lately anyway? No more grifting off "reality" tv on the TLC channel right?
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)In some ways good, in others unfortunate, it is the way the world works quite often.
Jim__
(14,083 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)and call this "Hillary Hate". She benefits from being extremely wealthy and politically connected. I'm shocked by that.
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)Had around the world, already far more accomplished than her. They were not given much wealth from speeches or appearences.
When Chelsea Clinton runs for President of French-Canadia, maybe I'll give a shit.
pnwmom
(108,992 posts)At least Chelsea has something to say and she's saying it for a good cause.
Unlike, for example, the Kardasians.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)as opposed to being famous by virtue of having the last name of Clinton.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Metric System
(6,048 posts)with fame was due to a sex tape? Seeing the Clintons compared unfavorably to the Kardashians is right up there with the post the other day comparing Hillary unfavorably to Margaret Thatcher. I've seen it all!
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)BUT NOT wealthy like Kim is.
http://www.forbes.com/profile/kim-kardashian/
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/models/kim-kardashian-net-worth/
There are Millionaire laywers, but not ones that were making 20 Million a year. I may dislike her, but her Daddy did NOT give her that money, nor tell her how to invest it.
So if I had my choice between getting investment advice from Kim or Chelsea, Kim wins.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)To her credit, she does seem like a nice person, and quite smart. Nonetheless, I do agree.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Not what you know but who you know. Always has been always will be!