Class Act

It's been a big week for Chelsea Clinton, former first daughter who's out on the stump the past few months campaigning for her mother, Senator Hillary Clinton, occasionally alongside her father, former President Bill Clinton. Having done a pretty good job of fencing the press corps, and keeping them at a safe distance (no interviews allowed), she has nonetheless shown to be a faithful and undaunted spokesperson for her mother at college campuses and other campaign stops across the country.

At a college in Indiana earlier this week, she was faced with a question she'd not yet been asked, when a male college student asked her how her mother handled the Monica Lewinsky crisis.

Chelsea handled the question with great grace and dignity, and is being hailed by many, including those supporting other candidates, for her response in telling the young man that really it was none of his business. As it was supposed to be the last question of the gathering, she entertained another question, this one about global warming. As it turns out, the Lewinsky question came from a Clinton supporter who has gone on record in the media subsequently indicating that Chelsea Clinton's response did not change his support for her mother.

More recently, a couple of days ago Chelsea Clinton was asked on the campaign trail if her mother would make a better president than her father was. Again, she handled the question deftly, and responded, quite emphatically, in the affirmative.

Her most recent line of questioning this weekend had her assuring the audience that neither her mother nor her father had asked her to campaign for the Clinton campaign these past few months, and that she was doing it because she firmly believed in her mother as the person best qualified and suited to be, as she expressed it, Her President.

Brava, Chelsea.

Bill and Hillary Clinton might be criticized for all manner of things in their years of public service, but the thing they've clearly done most right is raising an incredibly gracious, articulate and elegant daughter.