Posted September 2, 2008 4:14 PM
by Jim Tankersley
There's a good and fair debate to be had about whether the children of political candidates are "off limits," as both John McCain's campaign and Barack Obama insisted this week in the wake of Gov. Sarah Palin's press release announcing her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.
To that debate, we add this: For a brief moment in 1998, McCain did not consider First Daughter Chelsea Clinton off-limits.
Speaking to a Republican fundraiser, McCain reportedly told a joke that went something like this:
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.
McCain immediately appologized to the Clintons, who accepted his apology.
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