Chelsea Clinton announced Thursday that she and her husband are expecting their first child this year — as her parents, the former and possibly future presidents, prepared to become grandparents.
In a surprise announcement, Clinton, 34, said she and husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are “very excited” and “lucky” to welcome a child into their family.
“I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child and hopefully children as my mom was to me,” said Clinton, as her mother, former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, looked on proudly. A Clinton spokesman said the baby is due this fall.
Thursday’s joyous announcement came at the conclusion of a forum, moderated by actress and activist America Ferrera at the Lower Eastside Girls Club, promoting young women’s empowerment.
“I certainly feel all the better — whether it’s a boy or girl — that she or he will grow up in a world full of so many strong, young female leaders, so thank you for inspiring future generations, including the one that we’ll be lucky enough to welcome into our family later this year,” Chelsea Clinton said.
As Clinton spoke, her mother beamed from the stage. She said she was “really excited” to be expecting her first grandchild and later tweeted: “My most exciting title yet: Grandmother-To-Be!” Former president Bill Clinton tweeted: “Excited to add a new line to my Twitter bio . . . grandfather-to-be!”
My most exciting title yet: Grandmother-To-Be! @billclinton and I are thrilled that Chelsea and Marc are expecting their first child!
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 17, 2014
Wow, Chelsea is having a baby after being married for four years, and it was planned.Well somebody certainly did not read the "Palin Family Planning" brochure.
You know as I was waking up this morning I turned on my TV, and heard a discussion about this on Morning Joe.
Somebody, and I am sorry I was too groggy to see who, mentioned that this might be politically advantageous to Hillary.
He was immediately ridiculed by Nicolle Wallace, but I think he is undoubtedly correct.
That should certainly not be the first take away from hearing this news, but, considering how tied into politics the Clintons are, it is certainly something that is open for discussion.
After all if Sarah Palin was able to use a fake pregnancy of her own, and the real pregnancy of her unwed teenage daughter, to garner support from the anti-abortion folks, Hillary should get mad props from the female demographic for raising an intelligent daughter, who finished college, got married, and THEN started a family in a responsible manner.
Don'tcha think?
P.S. Here is video of Chelsea making the announcement. Check out the smile on Hillary's face.
Sarah Palin can beat that, she is already at 5 grandkids by 50. Track 1(DWTS?) Bristol 4 Willow 1.
ReplyDeleteNone of Sarah's offspring are married, or educated. You show 'em how to do it right, Hilary and Chelsea Clinton.
Yeah, what were the Clinton family thinking? They sent Chelsea to a college-prep school where she graduated with a high GPA, she went off to college, then grad school, then got a job, then got married, and four years later had a planned pregnancy. I'm sure the Palins are shaking their heads in disbelief that it's possible to live life that way.
DeleteChelsea is very happily married! Sunny Johnston is very happily married!
ReplyDeleteBristol is not.
hahahahaha
You're jealous. Bristol Palin has a pontoon party boat and Chelsea Clinton doesn't.
DeleteAnon@911a, you misspelled poontang
DeleteAnon at 9:11 am
DeleteI have a pontoon boat, along with a few other boats and I am happily married. It is not a life choice to have a marriage or a pontoon boat.
Conservative Host: Chelsea's Pregnancy Was A Hillary Clinton Campaign Ploy
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton shoe-throwing truthers, meet Hillary Clinton baby-truthers.
Newsmax host Steve Malzberg on Thursday speculated that Chelsea Clinton's pregnancy was no accident, and that Hillary Clinton's grandchild would arrive just in time to serve as a "prop" for a widely expected 2016 presidential run.
"Now pardon the skeptic in me," Malzberg said. "Oh I can see Media Matters, I can see everybody going crazy on me now. Malzberg thinks this was a staged, planned pregnancy?"
"Well, now I'm not saying, when I say staged I have to believe she's pregnant, if she says she's pregnant," he continued. "I don't mean that they're making up she's pregnant. But what great timing! I mean purely accidental, purely an act of nature, purely just left up to God."
"And God answered Hillary Clinton's prayers and she's going to have the prop of being a new grandma while she runs for president," he added. "It just warms the heart, it brings a tear to my eye. It really does."
Watch the video:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/duck-dynasty-show-canceled-in-missouri-due-to-low-ticket-sales
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chelsea-clinton-baby-campaign-ploy
Newsmax host Steve Malzberg on Thursday speculated that Chelsea Clinton's pregnancy was no accident, and that Hillary Clinton's grandchild would arrive just in time to serve as a "prop" for a widely expected 2016 presidential run.
DeleteNow, who would actually use a baby as a prop for a presidential (or vice presidential) run?
"...Hillary Clinton's grandchild would arrive just in time to serve as a "prop" for a widely expected 2016 presidential run."
DeleteSome needs to tell this moran humans have a nine month gestation period.
So when is Citronella Gunsites Chastity Palin-Palin's debut?
Delete"I certainly feel all the better - whether it's a boy or girl - that she or he will grow up in a world full of so many strong, young female leaders"
ReplyDeleteSure hope they have a girl, if they have a boy it sounds like he is gonna be neutered before he even gets outside the womb.
They are copying Sarah, for sure. Sarah founded the idea of using babies on political campaigns.
DeleteYou can bet Hillary will be too jealous to publicly thank Sarah for this brainstorm.
Sarah has already forgiven Hillary for stealing her idea.
What a bizarre and pathetic thing to say. How sad that you think strong women = emasculated men.
DeleteThe truth is, strong men like strong women just fine. Only weak men are threatened or feel "neutered" by strong women. Your insecurities are showing.
I'm called a strong, independent woman and have been for years. And, yes, I'm a senior citizen now. But, I've had men in my life throughout the years that are still a part of my life that like and respect me!
DeleteI don't feel (or project myself as) 'better' than them - I just enjoy them! I don't have to prove a damned thing! Love it, love it!
Nefer if you can't see the over the top play to women voters with a statement like that, you are not so smart. I can't help you with that. Not to worry though, that pretty much makes you an average sucker like the majority of America. Now go hide behind your wife.
Delete10:32am
DeleteThe baby and grand baby thing doesn't play to ALL women voters. I feel perhaps Chelsea was forced into this, to save her marriage or for other reasons. Not all women voters see birthing babies as the end all be all and in fact many of us discourage it. There are too many people for this planet to support as it is, why bring more into world?
10:32 AM At least post a coherent response. You don't speak for the majority of America, so don't try.
DeleteNow go hide behind your ignorance.
Neutered like Todd Palin the purse carrier in chief?
DeleteWhy would strong women weaken a real man? If you are afraid of strong women then you have already neutered yourself.
DeleteAnon at 10:32
DeleteAre you mentally ill? A loving married couple having a child is not a conspiracy. Your paranoia over someone having a child is beyond strange and is not normal, you should seek help immediately.
Anonymous11:30 AM:
DeleteI agree with you 100%, don't they realize that the GOP has planted this absurd reasoning to get others to not vote for her if Clinton runs for Pres. ?
Anon 10:32, what, you think Nefer's running for office or grifting for PAC donations? Mining for Reddit popularity or Likes on Facebook? He has nothing to gain by announcing, in all his manliness, that being a child of fucking rock star women, isn't in and of itself a neutering act.
DeleteFuck off loser.
Anon1032/58: There are medications for thought disorders. Maybe check it out? K, thanks, bye.
DeleteYou're kidding me aren't you? Chelsea completed college, is married and having a baby?
ReplyDeleteThat's not how unmarried Bristol Palin did it.
All this media attention being heaped upon Hillary's pregnant daughter must be eating Sarah alive.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing about all this is how sharply the positive, wonderful press coverage about Chelsea's pregnancy contrasts with the pregnancies of both Bristol and Sarah.
You see, Sarah, this is how it's done. Sit down and take notes.
And may the Great Spaghetti Monster Bless this lucky, lucky baby!
Remember how Sarah made sure the staffer that wrote their Brissy's Pregger's press release was fired for not saying it with the right 'verbiage' as the word salad queen?
DeleteBristol Palin graduated from Wasilla High School and skin school. At 16 was pregnant and gave birth to Tripp while in high school and is currently pursuing trial husbands.
ReplyDeleteChelsea Clinton received an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and later earned master's degrees fromOxford University and Columbia University'sMailman School of Public Health. Clinton is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Oxford.
None of Sarah's children have a high school diploma.
DeleteNone of Sarah's children have a GED.
None.
Chelsea went to as many school's as Sarah Palin, but actually has a NUMBER of degrees, compared to Sorry's dubious ONE.
DeleteSarah Palin has no college degree.
DeleteCaint Get Right Palin is not married
ReplyDeleteBristol Palin is not married
They have children
WTF is wrong with Sarah Palin's children?
9:01 AM ?????
ReplyDeleteLou Sarah.
DeleteCongrats Chelsea and Marc!
ReplyDeleteIs that why Bristol posted a photo of her with Joey Junker (my love)??? Bristol has been dropping hints.
ReplyDeleteI can almost count the seconds until the quitter, grifter queen gets on facebook to say something vile and nasty... wonder if she remembers her fake babies birthday??? hard to keep all the lies straight when there are so many....when will the axe fall on this worthless skank and her grifting clan??? WHEN
ReplyDelete"I don't want to be cynical and I'm not suggesting anyone's having a baby for election purposes, but —" Sorkin added before being drowned out by the panel's collective groans.
ReplyDeletehttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/andrew-ross-sorkin-chelsea-clinton-pregnancy-hillary-clinton
Now, who would be so cynical as announce that she was pregnant the minute that John McCain secured the Republican nomination in March, 2008? And expecting a DS child who would prove her Right-to-Life credentials? And where did that baby come from, since Sarah Palin did not look pregnant in the photos of her taken in March and April, 2008? I keep forgetting, when DID Bristol have mono and drop out of school for 5 months?
Oh, yeah, Happy Birthday, Trig. We're the only ones who remember. Well, at least we are noting the day that Trig "popped out" (according to Chuck Heath, who was there). "Popped out" could mean "arrived through the back door of the little hospital" as opposed to "being born" in a small town hospital which does not deliver premature, special needs babies. Where is our good friend, the anonymous Me Again, who seemed to know some of the details about when Trig actually did arrive? Was it some time in February? How long WAS he in the neonatal ward, about 6 weeks? (Sarah planned her "pregnancy" to last 6 weeks).
Snowden answers critics on Putin phone call:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/18/vladimir-putin-surveillance-us-leaders-snowden
The white trash family from Wasilla, AK cannot be compared to the Clinton family. Absolutely no comparison when you see the hard working, educated, community service world wide and political careers of the Clintons. (And, I so hope to see Hillary Clinton run and be elected POTUS!)
ReplyDeleteThe Palins should be ashamed of themselves for what they have put out there in the world the past recent years. They are nothing more than comical failures to Alaska and the USA!
I said it before in any earlier thread. There are comparisons to be drawn between the Clintons and Palins. Bill Clinton did not have an enviable childhood in many ways: not born into a "family of means," father died before he was born, raised for a while by grandparents, then by his mother and an alcoholic and abusive step-father. Presumably his childhood did have something to do with his personality flaws, but he rose above his upbringing big time by virtue of shining intellect, drive, and, yes, strength of character. The fact that his mother valued education, having started nursing school soon after Bill was born, undoubtedly had something to do with it. Meanwhile, any number of Palin generations have had similarly unenviable upbringings, and so far not a single one has risen above it -- setting aside Lou Sarah's success as a hateful, ignorant demagogue, I mean. One surely doesn't see a Chelsea Clinton coming out of the gene (cess)pool any time soon.
DeleteThere is no comparing the Palins to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary's parents pushed her to excel in school, not in basketball but in getting good grades. Bill also knew the value of a good education. To their credit, they kept Chelsea out of the public eye, rather than exploit her and use her as a prop when Bill ran for Governor and President.
DeleteThe comparison I was drawing is between the unenviability of the backgrounds. WJC rose above his unenviable childhood; it appears Jesus will rise again before any of the Wasilla hillbilly clan rise above their unenviable upbringings.
DeleteRight on schedule. The Palin curse in action. http://www.ky3.com/news/local/duck-dynasty-stage-show-at-jqh-arena-canceled/21048998_25531648
ReplyDeleteThey've played out
DeleteOh well, there's always "Duck Dynasty Ice Capades" and DWTS!!!
DeleteCheers to Chelsea and Hillary! As is known by most, Hillary Clinton is an incredible mother and unlike the narcissist Sarah Palin she actually parented Chelsea!
ReplyDeleteLooks like Chelsey not only paused before she played, she also too maybe perhaps practiced responsible birth control measures - aka Family Planning! She's a whole age doubled that of Bristol with her first "joy."
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful for Bill and Hillary, the first Grandchild is always such a joy and something to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Chelsea and Marc, a loving married stable home is awaiting their child!
Hey Barstool, see how it's done? What did you do with the baby-junker. I saw you, and you DID have a bun-in-the-oven. It's pretty disgusting how you get rid of your abstinance offspring.
ReplyDeleteIf the baby was indeed planned a as a prop, why didn't it work for PALIN! HAHAHAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteThough free of monarchy for more than two centuries, Americans this week were strangely fascinated by the news that one of the country’s pre-eminent political families will be producing its next heir. The news has produced baby fever in the nation’s often sensationalist and highly partisan media and sparked a new round of discussion about the role of powerful clans in the nation’s public affairs.
ReplyDeleteThe politics of the world’s second-largest democracy have long been dominated by a handful of influential families. In recent decades, it has often been a brutal contest of wills between two rival clans in particular.
For the past year, however, neither of the country’s most powerful dynasties has had a member serving in the executive mansion or the Cabinet—something that has not happened in 34 years. This week’s news comes at a time when speculation is high that the Clinton dynasty may be angling to take the reins of power once more.
More than two decades ago, the Clintons swept out of the country’s southern heartland—an economically depressed region with a bloody history—to storm the capital. They have dominated the national conversation ever since, as much for family patriarch Bill’s prodigious appetites and often controversial public statements as their fairly staid brand of center-left politics.
After Bill was forced by term limits to surrender power in 2000, his wife, Hillary, entered the national legislature and in 2008 followed in the footsteps of a number of the Western Hemisphere’s first ladies in recent years by running for the presidency herself.
She would have been the first female president of a country that, while highly Westernized in many respects, still has an overwhelmingly male-dominated political culture. In a shocking result, voters rejected the Clintons’ bid to return to the executive mansion and Hillary was forced to settle for a four-year tenure as foreign minister.
The couple’s daughter, Chelsea, grew up in the public eye, and the announcement of her pregnancy this week drew attention from the normally staid broadsheets read by the country’s elite as well the gossip-focused publications more popular with the general public here. The family’s political opponents, meanwhile, griped that the timing of the announcement was not coincidental.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/04/18/if_it_happened_there_how_would_we_cover_chelsea_clinton_s_pregnancy_if_it.html
Bristol better hurry up and choose one of those trial husbands pretty soon. Sarah needs a big fat valley white trash wedding to compete with Hillary's best new news.
ReplyDeleteGrandmother is a good job for her. I certainly don't want another Clinton as President, nor a Bush. Flush them all out and get us somebody new.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy for the whole family, A child is someone to celebrate. Notice the interviewer asked Hillary if she was expecting, and she immediately said "A grandchild, yes".
ReplyDeleteSomething that resembles a stick figure in camouflage would have had a totally different answer, "Yes, but I kept it secret from the family, also too, I did a draft in e mail of his birth announcement weeks before his "arrival" and signed it "Your Creator". Perhaps do do should have worn camo while preggers instead of pillows.
I'm sure the crazies are all over the comments. This was done deliberately, for political reasons.
I'd lose it if my daughter said those words when the time comes, what an honor!
“I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child and hopefully children as my mom was to me,”