Chelsea Clinton wedding is cheap at the price of $3 million
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Chelsea Clinton's wedding will cost $3 million but it is cheap at the price.
At least Chelsea and her beau Marc are not going down the Hello/OK magazine route where they sell the pictures to pay for the nuptials.
No, the money is coming straight out of the pocket of Bill and Hill but they have more than enough.
And what could it be worth to them to see their only daughter, much maligned in teenhood, flower into this beautiful woman who will take her walk down the aisle on Saturday?
Priceless as the Mastercard man might say.
So stop all this nonsense that the wedding is costing too much.
It is worth every dime because because it is their only daughter and she deserves the very best.
Besides, last time I looked Bill was giving billions through his foundation to worthy causes, as well as helping out pro bono in Haiti.
If ever a man deserved a wedding day with his daughter he does.
Hillary could be making millions in the private sector too, but decided on government service.
Chelsea is their only big splash out and she deserves the very best.
So let's hear it for this wedding -- and to hell with the begrudgers.
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DennisQ | Jul 29, 2010, 07:47 PM EDT
It's likely that it was Hillary that made the decision to splurge on Chelsea's wedding. She's not a natural politician like Bill is. Bill is certainly aware of the optics of throwing away millions of dollars on a party, ferchrissakes. Hillary probably thinks just the same way a lot of the commenters here think - it's HER money, she can burn it if she likes. Hillary's political tin ear has cost her dearly in the past. For example, her boneheaded vote for the Iraq war probably cost her the presidency. She was WAY ahead in the polls up until she did that.
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Verum68 | Jul 29, 2010, 03:46 AM EDT
How the Clintons choose to spend their money is no one's business but their own.
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AmAncINED | Jul 28, 2010, 05:52 PM EDT
All of you who have nothing better to do than to crank about how much the Clintons are spending on Chelsea's wedding - get over yourselves. It's their money and none of your business how they spend it. I wonder if you'll be critizing the Obamas someday on how much money they spend on their daughters' weddings. Did you complain about how much the Gore's spent on their daughter's wedding? Chelsea is not the first and she won't be the last to have an expensive wedding. Get a life!
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hyattsville | Jul 28, 2010, 03:01 PM EDT
What’s with all the venom and ill will toward the Clintons? They have worked hard for whatever money they have earned and really don’t owe any of us an accounting of how much they choose to spend on their only child! Are you blind to how much the Clinton’s have done, and continue to do, for this Country? Are you unaware of their charitable contributions..William J.Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative anyone. Whose lives have you enriched lately?
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DennisQ | Jul 28, 2010, 02:34 PM EDT
It would be bad enough if Hillary Clinton were a private citizen, but she is America's chief diplomat. This extravagance reflects American values, the face we put before the world. What's wrong with this picture? Plenty! Imagine our Secretary of State pretending to feel compassion for the victims of tragedy throughout the world. Marie Antoinette had more concern for her fellow human beings.
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hyattsville | Jul 28, 2010, 02:21 PM EDT
The price tag of the event is of no concern to any of us, and these sums assaulting us are mere speculation thrown out by the media anyway. What is important is that the Clintons seem to have raised an exceptional daughter which can’t always have been easy. Good luck to the newlyweds and fork the begrudgers!
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DennisQ | Jul 28, 2010, 01:13 PM EDT
I missed an opportunity to use the correct word to describe spending $3 million on a party . . . in the middle of hard times, too. It's piggish.
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irishwxman | Jul 28, 2010, 10:11 AM EDT
Who cares?
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Monsoonman | Jul 28, 2010, 09:29 AM EDT
I would have NO problem with them spending any amount of money they chose to spend on their wedding. In a free economy that money will go out into the rest of the system. But knowing the clintons for the grifters they really are, you know somehow, it is our money they are spending, so yes there is no joy to see that money spent, knowing it was tainted by some sell out of the American taxpaying people.
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hootntye | Jul 28, 2010, 09:18 AM EDT
That is a lot of money! A bit excessive don't you think, $500,000 on the flowers I hear. Then, they should pay for the extra police , or security, protection that is incurred by the local community, I heard that that cost was over $250,000. I don't think the taxpayer should have to foot that bill. Has she had plastic surgery? Or a great makeover?
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DennisQ | Jul 27, 2010, 05:43 PM EDT
I never felt the Clintons had any genuine sympathy for the rest of humanity. Everything was about them - they're the kind of house guests you'd watch to see they don't steal the silverware. So spending $3 million on a party isn't out of range for them. Years ago, Jerry Lewis spent $60,000 to bury his dog. In response to critics, Lewis said, Why not? It's my money. Jerry Lewis doesn't get it. Neither do the Clintons.
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