A Royal Wedding

If you listen to attack ads, the worst people in the world are politicians who have worked for financial companies, especially hedge funds. So, what if someone who spent several years working for a hedge fund married someone else in the same company? And what if the groom's father had spent five years in prison for fraud? These days this couple would probably be pictured as the worst people in the world (I hope that Keith Olbermann hasn't trademarked that term).

But what if the bride was Chelsea Clinton? That changes everything. In all of the fuss over Chelsea's dress and guest-list and expensive port-o-lets, and gluten-free wedding cake, no one mentioned what she's been doing since graduating from college. I'm not sure I even saw the groom's name published (although I wasn't paying much attention). Certainly the groom's occupation was never mentioned nor was anything said about his father.

Considering the fuss made over Chelsea's wedding, you would think that her father was a sitting president instead of one who left office almost a decade ago.

Contrast Chelsea's post-White House career with the Bush twins. Jenna is a teacher in Maryland and contributes monthly segments to the Today Show. Barbara currently works for a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Museum. Before that she worked with AIDS patients in Africa.

Even though she was the daughter of a sitting president, Jenna's wedding was a much lower-key affair.

I think that the media is engaged in Clinton-nostalgia.