Elle a été protégée de l'attention des médias et des retombées, positives et négatives, de la vie politique de ses célèbres parents pendant des années. Cette protection lui a sans doute été bénéfique et les anciens conseillers des Clinton se refusent toujours à commenter son évolution. Aujourd'hui âgée de 31 ans elle s'affiche de plus en plus. Une carrière politique?
"The specter of someone with the last name of Clinton edging into public service inevitably raises the prospect of public office – perhaps an appointment by her mother’s boss, the president of the United States, or by an old family friend, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Or perhaps a run for Congress. Clinton allies suggested that option as a possibility for her, either in New York City where she lives, or farther north.
Rep. Nita Lowey, an old family ally who represents the official Clinton home in Westchester County, turned 74 in July and two Clinton supporters suggested that Chelsea Clinton might be a natural for her seat should Lowey decide to retire in coming years.
“She’s coming into her own – she’s developing her own career,” said Basil Smikle, a former Clinton aide and New York political consultant who said he hadn’t been let in on any plans for the next Clinton generation.
“If she did [run for office], I would not be surprised, and I think she’d be great,” he said. “She’s obviously very intelligent, and she has the political genes to make her a successful candidate. New York State as a whole could use an injection of new, younger blood with some fresh ideas.”
Lowey, whose spokesman, Matt Dennis, stressed that she is running for reelection in 2012, didn’t dismiss the notion of another elected Clinton, in Westchester or anywhere else.
“Chelsea Clinton is a smart, ambitious, remarkable woman. If she chooses to pursue elected office someday, she would be a formidable candidate and fantastic public servant,” she said in an emailed statement.
Others, such as Hope, suggested that an election is not what Clinton has in mind, and that her focus is purely on policy initiatives.
Still, the political abilities of “The Next Clinton,” as New York Magazine’s Lloyd Grove called her in a 2008 profile, raised eyebrows even in 2008. Grove wrote then that “Chelsea is in many ways the ideal amalgam of her parents’ political talents,” and quoted Bill Clinton musing that she “has her mother’s character and her father’s energy.”"
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