(Via washingtonpost.com.)
With little fanfare the other day, Chelsea Clinton did what no one around her is ever supposed to do: She voluntarily brought up the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Speaking to a packed crowd of college students and recounting her mother’s history of working with Republicans, the youngest Clinton talked for a minute about Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who as a House member during the impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton was “one of the people who prosecuted my father in the 1990s,” she said. Not “someone you would think would be an ally for someone with the last name Clinton,” the 28-year-old added wryly.
Nor someone her audience would expect her to mention. But if her self-assurance was a surprise, it was also part of a rapid evolution by Clinton, who has gone from a behind-the-scenes supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to her mother’s most effective surrogate, capable of engaging in detailed policy discussions as well as explaining how the senator from New York “misspoke” in describing landing once in Bosnia under sniper fire.
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