David Axelrod on Chelsea's attack on Bernie: "It wasn't an honest attack"

[Gene Debs]

22. "Tacky"!? Seriously? If anything was tacky, it was

Chelsea's campaign debut.

I don't mind in the least seeing people pile on Chelsea. It was a stunningly tone-deaf, ham-fisted move on the Clinton camp's part, and she richly deserves to get piled on for it. Chelsea chose to get in the ring and make public statements that were glaring, obvious, demonstrative lies; neither she nor anyone else has any call to get butthurt when it backfires badly and bites them in the ass. And no, she's not "still a child" in the context of this election. Gimme a break. As you pointed out yourself, she's a thirty-five-year-old mother of two married to a Wall Street One-Percenter. She slung a big wet, sloppy handful of mud and it somehow ended up all over her. Too bad.

And I hope Bernie remains resolutely quiet about the whole thing and simply allows Clinton's campaign to further damage itself.