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Sarah Palin's Parental Role Models: Bill and Hillary Clinton (Politics Daily 7/20/10)
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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/20/sarah-palins-parental-role-models-bill-and-hillary-clinton/

A snarky article and not one that Palin fans will enjoy. But damn, if this stuff is true it sounds like a poorly written episode of "Roseanne."

Summer weddings are all the rage among the most politically fascinating -- and polar opposite -- families. The Clintons and the Palins.

Rumors concerning every detail -- the wedding dress, the guest list, the ceremony -- swirl around the July 31 wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky at the extravagant Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, N.Y., above the Hudson River. It promises to be a glamorous A-list affair. Mother of the bride and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said repeatedly, whenever given the chance, that Chelsea's wedding is the most important thing in her life.

Sarah Palin, well, is a different story. It's rumored that Sarah may not be attending daughter Bristol's August wedding to her off-again, on-again baby's daddy Levi Johnston.

Just last week, in a statement to "Good Morning America," Sarah gave her blessing to her daughter's union. But it wasn't exactly endearing. "As parents, we obviously want what is best for our children, but Bristol is ultimately in charge of determining what is best for her and her beautiful son. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives. We pray that, as a couple, Bristol and Levi's relationship matures into one that will allow Tripp to grow up graced with two loving parents in his life."

Chelsea was once in the middle -- literally -- between Bill and Hillary during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But perhaps because of the love for their daughter, the high-powered political couple worked through their problems and remained married. Happy faces will abound at the wedding.

It's been made clear that invitees to Chelsea's wedding must personally know the couple, and they should not leak information. The private twosome tend to eschew the spotlight and have not been spotted all over Manhattan buying china and wedding favors.

Bristol and Levi live in a vastly different universe than Chelsea and Marc. They can't seem to get enough attention. Even Bristol's recent ex-boyfriend and Levi's former hockey teammate, Ben Barber, has gotten into the mix, dishing dirt on his former girlfriend.

Bristol and Levi may be in negotiations for a reality show around their impending nuptials in Alaska and life with their 2-year-old son, Tripp, although a rep for Bristol Palin has denied that. Networks don't seem interested at the moment, but stranger things have aired on television. Remember Tori Spelling?

No, no, no, nooooooooo reality show!!!! Oh, for the love of Tonya Harding, don't give Bristol and Levi their own show!!!!!!

It's easy to imagine the reception chatter at Chelsea's wedding. Think Washington ****tail party with a wedding cake. FOBs like Terry McAuliffe will likely toast the couple and tell everyone who will listen that the Democrats will win the midterms. There will be plenty of wistful White House story telling over expensive champagne.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at Bristol and Levi's celebration. With or without Sarah, it's sure to be an affair for Alaskans to remember. One family member told the media that the event was Alaska's equivalent to Princess Diana's wedding. Maybe with some extra-added caribou in the mix. It's not so far fetched to think that the wedding, like many celebrity nuptials these days, may be underwritten by a tabloid in exchange for the exclusive pics.

Bristol, 19, could take a lesson from Chelsea, 30.

Uh, methinks it's a bit late for that.

Chelsea could have opted for a wild party-girl lifestyle in New York or Hollywood. She didn't exactly have a picture-perfect childhood even in the White House. The media shamefully -- and unfairly -- joked about her teen awkwardness even as her parents tried their best to shield her from scrutiny. Her father had an impeachment scandal triggered by his liaison with Monica Lewinsky. But Chelsea stayed on track and didn't take the predictable "fall from grace" path.

Instead, she graduated from Stanford, earned a master's degree from Oxford, and worked at a New York consulting firm followed by a job at a hedge fund. She serves on the board of the School for American Ballet. She is studying health policy and management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

By contrast, Bristol has had a rough-go thus far in her young life. She endured an unplanned teen pregnancy and a hailstorm of sordid true-and-untrue allegations while her mother ran as Sen. John McCain's vice presidential pick. Her husband-to-be has feuded bitterly and publicly with his future mother-in-law. Family holidays likely won't resemble a Currier & Ives postcard.

Both women have one thing in common -- fathers who care about them. Reports say that Todd Palin will escort Bristol down the aisle regardless of whether Sarah attends. There's no question about Bill Clinton. He'll be there, and he's losing 15 pounds for the big event.
If Sarah doesn't attend, the focus will be on her absence and not the couple as they try to make their way into what will surely be a married life with plenty of baggage from the start. Hopefully, the rumors aren't true and Sarah will attend. If not, she, too, needs to take lesson from Miss Manners -- and the Clintons -- and be there for her daughter.

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Chelsea is modesty personified. She is a graduate, with real work experience, does serious charity and fundraising work for multiple organizations on top of CGI, is working on her masters in public health, no less, and from a prestigeous college.. and keeps low profile, does not try to profit from the basking light on her parents.

Bristol - if she had not 'fallen from grace' as the article points out - would have been in a much better place today. She also took off from school. Home schooling? I dont know.. She is on a path that is not serving her well towards college. She does not have the infrastructure of supportive parents when it comes to her kid as well as having the ability to go to college; so she is on her own in an apartment. Levi's shenanigans compounded the problem... THEN, both of them in their true make-money-however-you-can way -- BTW, is that a Republican thing? -- they go tabloid on each other and with others around them.    How, very not "family values"!!! As to Sarah Palin sitting it out, I hope she does not.  If the objection is that the daughter got pregnant, well apparently she was too when she married Todd. But if the issue is with Levi - well, it is Bristol marrying Levi.  It is her daughter's wedding, hopefully the only wedding. Sarah should stop wanting to be drama queen when it comes to her daughter's life.

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Drama has been the hallmark of Bristol and Levi's relationship from jump. It's sad and destructive. If I were Sarah, I would have a hard time being apart of that circus, as well. However, one gets the sense that if more reserve and good judgment had been used in the beginning by the Palins - maybe this would have played out a little more appropriately, making things easier on everyone in the family. MSM helped nothing, obviously, and Levi is an idiot. You have to wonder how mature Bristol is to want to reunite with this dude.

-- Edited by freespirit on Wednesday 21st of July 2010 09:01:04 PM

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I don't appreciate the usual media trashing of Palin--though I'm used to it. I must say, however, that I've always thought Chelsea was a testimony to the true character of Hillary and Bill. She seems so healthy and well-adjusted and to think she spent her teen years in the White House. That's enough to mess anyone up, but where are the DUI's and the drug rumors? Where are the chaotic relationships? The Clintons clearly made excellent parents.

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