Chelsea Clinton's Wedding

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<p>It’s been moved back, teriwtt.</p>

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<p>THANK YOU!!!</p>

<p>I really do want to see (even an imitation of) a picture of the bridesmaid dresses.</p>

<p>Was talking with my personal trainer the other day (between huffs) about how women dress for church, which led to my revelation to him (he’s a guy with no daughters) that 95% of wedding gowns are now strapless. He was dumbfounded. </p>

<p>Anyway, I’m guessing the bridesmaids dresses were probably strapless, but then again, when you’re working with so many different shapes and sizes, sometimes you have to go with what’s the least offensive on the heaviest girl.</p>

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<p>Glad it moved back. I have been following this thread and I avoid the political forum like the plague.</p>

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<p>Maybe not. I don’t ever remember seeing a pic of the whole wedding party at Jenna Bush’s wedding. I don’t know if anyone else ever did? </p>

<p>As the members of the wedding party are not public people (unlike Bill and Hilly), maybe they don’t want to publicize them and open them up to all kinds of potential criticisms along the lines of ‘can you believe how awful bridemaid #3 looks?’</p>

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<p>ihs76… that’s why I sort of expect someone to leak the design/designer and not necessarily pictures of any of the attendants in their dresses.</p>

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<p>As so many were quick to swallow hook, line and sinker the rumors/lies about the inflated wedding costs, so did they swallow the BS put out by the RW haters about the First Lady’s trip:</p>

<p>[Michelle</a> Obama’s Spain trip: The inside story why she went - Lynn Sweet](<a href=“http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/08/michelle_obamas_spain_trip_the.html]Michelle”>http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/08/michelle_obamas_spain_trip_the.html)</p>

<p>"First, some numbers. Mrs. Obama did not travel with 40 friends, a number used by some news outlets.</p>

<p>She vacationed with two women, one of them a longtime Chicago pal, Anita Blanchard, who is the obstetrician who delivered Sasha and Malia. Blanchard is married to Marty Nesbitt – President Obama’s buddy and the treasurer of Obama’s presidential campaign fund.</p>

<p>There was one other woman. Total: four daughters among the three women. They paid for their hotel rooms and other personal and travel expenses.</p>

<p>snip</p>

<p>So why did Mrs. Obama go to Spain at this time? She’s not tone-deaf politically. What was behind the “mother-daughter” vacation?</p>

<p>A White House source told me that Blanchard’s father passed away and Mrs. Obama was not able to make the funeral at the beginning of July. Blanchard had promised her daughter she would take her to Spain for her birthday. She asked Mrs. Obama and Sasha to come with. (Malia is at overnight camp.)"</p>

<p>Note that this column was written by someone who is NOT particularly friendly to the Obama administration or the Democrats, but she is willing to admit that lies spread like wildfire on this story. Kudos to her for her efforts to do some debunking. (but, like always, the lies and distortions get lots of frenzied coverage, but the debunking gets very, very minimal notice.)</p>

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<p>What part of “spending on this event creates jobs” is unclear? Where does that money do more good - sitting in the Clintons’ already-quite-full bank accounts, or being spent on these goods and services? Gosh, and here I thought some of the objection to the Bush tax cuts being allowed to run out had to do with the importance of enabling the most-fortunate in this country to have the money to spend and stimulate the economy? I guess when it’s a president that someone hated, his money stimulating the economy is a Bad Thing.</p>

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<p>Time to get moved back to the political forum again. :)</p>

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<p>Quick, back to your regular programming! In an effort to distract the moderators:</p>

<p>How do you make a gluten free cake? Didn’t realize there is such a thing as gluten free flour? How does that differ from regular flour in taste, texture etc. </p>

<p>I actually am really interested in any answers.</p>

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<p>Most of the ones I’ve seen are made of rice flour and often use potato products too. My D has gone gluten free and she likes the rice flour bagels and muffins. Betty Crocker makes gluten free brownie and cake mixes but we haven’t tried them yet. I’m sure they are loaded with sugar.</p>

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<p>It was a gluten-free flour blend that was used in the wedding cake, probably rice flour and potato product blends, as cartera mentioned. There can be a slight difference in taste and texture but in a wedding cake, there are usually so many other added ingredients that it is less noticeable than it would be in a simple recipe.</p>

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<p>gluten free flour exists in many forms; some are excellent in baking…Betty Crocker cakes are actually excellent in taste and texture…</p>

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<p>I think Barbara was Jenna’s only bridesmaid.</p>

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<p>Hmm…Barbara’s dress was not all that flattering…I wonder if she picked it out or Jenna…</p>

<p>(My sister was my only bridesmaid. Both dresses were custom made. My dressmaker made exactly what my sister told him to make…and she hated it…said it wasn’t flattering…which it wasn’t…but it was her idea!)</p>

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<p>I like it well enough. What I thought odd is in another photo I saw from the wedding (on Oprah!) was that Barbara wore a wreath of flowers in her hair – it looked so '70s!</p>

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<p>“They are connected to the current administration which seems to have no problem advising the “folks” to tighten their belts during these rough economic times…”</p>

<p>can someone name ONE admin economist who is advising people to tighten their belts more than they are already doing? </p>

<p>Cause if so, thats one economist who needs to be fired.<br>
At least by an administration that purports to be Keynsian [Paradox</a> of thrift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift]Paradox”>Paradox of thrift - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>This is EXACTLY the time we want to encourage consumer spending. It was precisely during the Bush years (well from 2003 to 2007, anyway), when unemployment was low, capacity utilization high, etc that encouraging saving made sense (and of course, that was when saving was very low)</p>

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<p>regarding bridesmaids’ dresses: I like the trend of choosing a fabric and color and then letting the attendants choose the dress design that is most flattering for them.</p>

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<p>So, yeah. I always think that wedding cakes aren’t particularly tasty since they take so long to decorate. Does anyone else find this to be the case?</p>

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<p>ZM, I agree. The best tasting wedding cake I’ve ever had was a relatively ugly-looking, homemade cake. Every professionally decorated “masterpiece” tasted like sweetened cardboard.</p>

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<p>ZM: I think most wedding cakes are awful. Which is why the cake when DH and I got married was a carrot cake with butter cream frosting and a flower topper that was not put on until that morning. It looked very pretty and tasted great.</p>