Chelsea Clinton Says Her Mother More Prepared For Presidency Than Her Father

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Chelsea Clinton, the former first daughter said her mother would be a better president than her father because Hillary Rodham Clinton is more prepared and more progressive.

Campaigning for her mother, she told about 300 people at Duke University that former President Bill Clinton didn’t have a complete grasp o the inner workings of Congress when he took office in 1993.

“I think that she’ll be a better president because she’ll be more progressive and she’s more prepared,” Clinton said. ” She’ll just hit the ground running from Day One in a way that my father was not as equipped to do.”

She was asked by one student whether voters should consider how her mother responded to Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

“I agree that character is very important,” she said. ” But when I think about character for a public official, I think about how people respond to both successes and failures in their public lives.” She added that she defines her mother’s character by issues such as health care reform, and how her failed reform efforts early in her husband’s presidency didn’t stop her from continuing to pursue the issue.