Clinton Wedding Is Leaving Some Feeling Left Out

New York Times ^ | July 24, 2010 | Ashley Parker

[La Lydia]

So, just what does it take to score an invitation to the hottest — not to mention most secretive — political wedding of the summer? More than a cross-country ride on a private jet, apparently.

“I’m good enough to borrow a plane from, but not good enough to be invited to the wedding?” complained one Clinton friend, who remembered the times he handed over his jet and his pilot to take Bill Clinton around the country but had not landed a coveted invitation to Chelsea Clinton’s nuptials.

Next Saturday, Ms. Clinton, 30, and her fiancé, Marc Mezvinsky, 32, are expected to marry in Rhinebeck, N.Y. But not everyone these days is feeling the love...the whole affair has left donors, supporters, aides and even true A-listers wondering just how inside the inner circle they really are.

“Would people who said they were close to the Clintons and not invited feel bad? Sure,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a political consultant who worked on Mr. Clinton’s presidential re-election in 1996 (and who, for the record, was not invited). But with the hindsight of 30 years in politics, he added: “It is dangerous to presume closeness to people in power, and it is very rare when there are real, unbreakable friendships.”...

Washington is a town that revolves around power and access to power, and Ms. Clinton’s wedding has inadvertently provided the chattering class with an imprecise — and, many say, inaccurate — measure of where they stand in Clintonworld....

[La Lydia]

Names names of FOBs who were not invited. Oh no.

[badgerlandjim]

“...and do you, Chelsea, take this man to be your lawful wedded husband ‘til death do you part? If so, clop two times.”

[rockvillem]

Who on earth CARES about this wedding? I can’t get over the number of articles that the MSM is pumping out, acting as if people are dying to learn as much as possible.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Did Wes Hubble roll over once more in his grave?

[kenth]

“I’m good enough to borrow a plane from, but not good enough to be invited to the wedding?”

Better get in line and put some ice on that.

[ryan71]

Rush and Glenn have been talking a lot lately about people in DC, the media and Hollywood who act and say the right things to be in the “in crowd”.

It matters not that they have truly accomplished anything their whole lives, only that they play the game and are accepted.

[Liz]

As long as Chelsea's FIL got out in jail in time, guests are no big deal.

Ed Mezvinsky, a former Democratic Congressman from
Iowa, going to serve a seven-year sentence for fraud.

Former Congressman Duped by Nigerian Scams
ABC NEWS report / December 08, 2006

Ed Mezvinsky, a former Democratic Congressman from Iowa, got caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams. Initially, Mezvinsky became the victim of "just about every different kind of African-based scam we've ever seen," federal prosecutor Bob Zauzmer told ABC's 20/20.

But then, says Zauzmer, Mezvinsky began to steal from clients and even his own mother-in-law to raise the money to try yet another scheme. "He was always looking for the home run. He was always trying to find the business deal that would make him as wealthy as all the people in his social circle," said Zauzmer.

After leaving Congress, Mezvinsky moved to Philadelphia's Main Line suburbs with his wife Marjorie Margolies, a former television reporter, who won a seat in Congress herself as a Democratic congresswomen from Pennsylvania. "They were seen as people of means; they were a legitimate power couple," said Gar Joseph, a political columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News.

The Mezvinkskys were also close to Bill and Hillary Clinton and were frequent guests at White House state dinners. Prosecutors say Mezvinsky used his connections to the Clintons and his son's social relationship with Chelsea to persuade people to give him money to participate in the Nigerian scams.

Mezvinsky traveled to Nigeria numerous times and ultimately lost more than $3 million as a victim of the scammers. Prosecutors say Mezvinsky fell particularly hard for what is known as the "black money" scam. Victims are told millions of dollars have been coated with black ink so the money could be smuggled out of Nigeria.

The scammers then offer to sell a special, expensive chemical to remove the black ink so the currency can be used. Prosecutors say Mezvinsky fell for at least three separate "black money" schemes that he thought would bring him millions.

Mezvinsky declined requests sent to him in prison to speak with ABC News and also instructed his lawyer not to speak with ABC News. His wife, Marjorie Margolies, declined to comment "in the interest of the children." There is no evidence the Clintons knew of any illegal activity.

SOURCE http://www.blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/father_of_chels.html

[hinckley buzzard]

“It is dangerous to presume closeness to people in power,

heh. Especially old Billyboy. The whores and suckups don't realize it but they already have their reward.

[tflabo]

Think Webb Hubbell is still alive. Are you referring to James MacDougal instead?

[rickmichaels]

How long before Bill introduces Marc to Monica?

[MIlle]

Chelsea’s new FIL sounds like a first class chump. And they make fun of Sarah Palin and W for being stooopid? Puhleeeeze!

[Rennes Templar]

I forget, which is the father, Hubbel or MacDougal?

[Rennes Templar]

I don’t recall W’s daughters wedding getting as near as much coverage...

[linn37]

I don’t think she wanted any.

[La Lydia]

You are a “neeeeeiiiiigh-sayer”!

[RachelFaith]

Anyone stupid enough to fall for a Nigerian email scam is too stupid to live.

[GnL]

What a dumbass! I always wondered if anyone really fell for those scams. Figures it is a former Democrat congressman.

[niteowl77]

All planning and no play makes Hil a dull girl.

[Liz]

Yeah-—and he fell, not once, but three separate times for the most sophomoric scam the Nigerian crooks pull off——the magic ink scam.

[thulldud]

Mezvinsky declined requests sent to him in prison to speak with ABC News and also instructed his lawyer not to speak with ABC News.

This guy played with the Nigerian 419 scammers, even went there and yet he's still alive. Hope he appreciates that.

His wife, Marjorie Margolies, declined to comment "in the interest of the children."

As soon as I saw the name Mezvinsky, I was reminded of the 1993 budget deal, with its retroactive taxes, and especially, of the one who cast the deciding YEA, after having pledged to vote NAY. That was "for the children", too.

There is no evidence the Clintons knew of any illegal activity.

I was going to comment on this statement, but why bother?