Scenes From the Clinton Wedding

Wedding1LEON PANETTA: He’s not on the list but Barack Obama wants to see you.

BILL CLINTON: Is this necessary?

LEON PANETTA: He wasn’t sure if he was invited to the wedding; in case he was, he wanted to thank you.

BILL CLINTON: All right.

Wedding220070816-224951BARACK OBAMA: (Talking to himself) Don Clinton, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter. And may their first child be a masculine child.

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MARC MEZVINSKY: (To Chelsea Clinton) Chelsea, that man over there is talking to himself. You see that scary guy over there?

CHELSEA CLINTON: He’s a very scary guy.

MARC MEZVINSKY: Well, who is he? What’s his name?

Wedding320070816-230003CHELSEA CLINTON: His name is Barack Obama, and he helps my parents carry out their agenda sometimes. Like the time my parents went to see Congressman Bart Stupak, and they offered him $10,000 to get his vote for the health care bill. But Stupak said “no.” So the next day, my parents went to see Stupak, only with Barack Obama. Within an hour, Stupak announced he was voting for the bill for a certified check for $1,000.

MARC MEZVINSKY: Why did he do that?

CHELSEA CLINTON: My parents made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

MARC MEZVINSKY: What was that?

CHELSEA CLINTON: Barack Obama held a gun to his head and my parents assured Stupak that either his brains or his signature would be on the bill. That’s a true story. That’s my family, Marc, not me.

Jul 30