Chelsea Morning
Remember the Joni Mitchell song?
"Woke up it was a Chelsea morning and the first thing that I heard,
was a song outside my window and the traffic wrote the words..."
It was freezing - around zero - on Church Street in downtown Burlington early this morning. At 9:15 AM when it had been broadcast Chelsea Clinton would arrive on Church Street to shake some hands, there were 250 people huddling in the cold hoping to meet and greet the famous daughter of Bill and Hillary.
"We want to see the Clintons, any Clinton we can," said Connie Ramsey of Burlington. "I'm supporting Hillary, but I’ll take either one, her or Barack."
Is it because she’s a woman?
"No," replied Ramsey. "I find that insulting, actually, that people assume if you’re a woman you’ll back the female candidate."
Different story for Valerie Parauka from St. Albans.
"I’m voting for Hillary because I want to see a woman in the White House," Parauka told us. "I think she’s capable. I think she’s more capable that Barack. She has the experience and the strength to deal with our country and other countries."
Is her gender a key factor?
"It shouldn’t be a factor, but unfortunately in today’s society, it is a factor," said Valerie, "and people do look at her gender and she has to work twice as hard to overcome that. I think it’s time for a woman president and I think after Bush’s fiasco, it’s a prime opportunity for her to pop into office."
The crowd has shrunk by the time Chelsea arrived around 10 o'clock. She was escorted by former Gov. Madeleine Kunin and Big Bill's EPA Secretary Carol Browner.
The First Daughter hit Uncommon Grounds for some java. Dropped into Banana Republic, too.
Well, at least she had one parent get elected president of the United States, eh?
For some nice video shot by Ch. 17 Producer Tuija Lindell go here.
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