I mean, I thought she was getting married last year. Or was it the year before? I dunno. Somehow, I thought it had already happened. Maybe that’s a good thing. I don’t follow celebrity-type news gossip in general, although sometimes something catches my interest in a transient way. John and Kate Plus Eight? Sextuplets? The Duggars with their 19 biological children? I don’t doggedly follow this stuff and I certainly don’t watch it on TV, except for that one time when the Duggars were on the TV at Houghton Lake. Horrified fascination? I could not leave the room.

I think it’s a good thing that the Clinton wedding has been far enough under my radar screen that I think it has already happened. Maybe it means that Chelsea herself doesn’t *want* a media circus surrounding her wedding vows with her husband. Maybe her parents are helping with that. I will admit that I did not vote for Bill Clinton, at least not the first time. I honestly can’t remember what I did the second time. I know that there was a time when I hated all of the Clintons. And Newt Gringrich too. It was 1995 and there was a showdown over the federal government budget and that caused the infamous government shutdown that probably most people don’t remember now. It meant that my family did not receive a paycheck for the duration. I was mad at the world then and I — VERY immaturely — hated the then first family (and Newt and a whole bunch of other people too). Misplaced anger? Yes yes yes. Big time mea culpa.

That was a long time ago and my opinion about the Clintons has softened. Oh, not that I worship them or anything. And nowadays, unless somebody is coming at me with a knife or an SUV or a bulldozer or words or whatever, I try not to get too upset. The GG and a few other people might disagree but they just haven’t quite caught up with me yet.

I wish all the best for Chelsea and her new husband and kudos to the whole Clinton family for *not* turning the whole event into a media circus. It is a wedding and it is their wedding. The most important people at any wedding are the bride and groom and their families. That is all. Mazel tov.

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