I have been scratching my head a little bit about Chelsea Clinton.  She seems to be part Clinton surrogote (like Bill Clinton), part someone just kind of untethered doing her own thing for her own reasons (Kind of like Jeremiah Wright).

Now, Bill Clinton has taken to traveling mainly to “Bubba Country”.  It was an odd tactical move and part of Hillary Clinton’s tactical choice of transforming into Annie Oakley (and now that she is in Oregon she is Calamity Jane).

Chelsea Clinton has been prowling the gay bars.  In Pennsylvania, she did so with (um… noted gay icon?) Ed Rendell..  In Oregon she, naturally, pops over to various Portland gay bars — reportedly at a Lesbian Bar this weekend.

I have a hard time imagining she is popping into a gay bar in West Virginia, where Hillary Clinton hopes to get the, ahem, “hard working white people” to climb her to a 50 point victory, and where Obama hopes to hold Clinton to a mere 30 point victory without anyone seeing him sweat for that 20 point margin.  I would think it would hamper the effort out there in Hicksville, but what do I know?  I would think better of the Hillary Clinton campaign if, indeed, Chelsea Clinton did pop into one in West Virginia… and/ or Kentucky.

Politics always quilts together contradictory coalitions, I suppose.  But after a pause I just wonder if the campaign is using Chelsea as an ambassador to GLBTs or if Chelsea is using the campaign as an excuse to crawl the nation’s gay bars?  (Something akin to her amazing campaign weekend where she book-ended a campaign stop in Minnesota in the middle of winter with two campaign stops in Hawaii.  Minnesota a little more important than Hawaii in terms of picking up delegates, but who’s counting?)

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