SOCIAL NEWS – AT 8:20 A.M. ET:  You'll want to know that there is deep upset, anguish, and mental torture in certain circles over the Clinton wedding next weekend.  The New York Times has the whole rotten story:

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.

While most friends and acquaintances of the former president and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton say they understand that the wedding is a private affair of 400 or so guests, each with a direct connection to the bride or bridegroom, some are privately grumbling about who made the cut.

COMMENT:  I want to inform our readers that I have not been invited to the wedding, but that I'm okay with it.  Yes, there were a couple of bad days.  You wonder what you did wrong.  I yelled at the mail guy a few times, thinking he may have delivered the invite to the wrong address, but he was cleared. 

I guess the five-dollar check my cousin wrote to the Clinton campaign in 1992 didn't get us on the list.  But I refuse to buy myself through life.

I'll just put on a tuxedo and pretend.

July 24, 2010