Chelsea Clinton's beau is a handsome feller, but if they marry, she'll inherit a real prize of a father-in-law:
This time around, Ms. Clinton, who never had a sibling to share or dilute the pressures on her, has a partner whose life is an uncanny mirror of her own. Marc Mezvinsky, who works at Goldman Sachs in New York, is also the child of two politician parents, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and Edward M. Mezvinsky, both former members of Congress. And Marc Mezvinsky survived a humiliating parental scandal, when his father pleaded guilty in 2002 to swindling dozens of investors out of $10 million.As a confidence man, the elder Mr. Mezvinsky was the name-dropping type. “When he thought it would help, he would call and say, ‘I’m spending the weekend with the Clintons,’ ” said Robert A. Zauzmer, the prosecutor in the case in Pennsylvania. According to court documents, Mr. Mezvinsky bragged to his targets about an earlier friendship between his son and Ms. Clinton, and used his son’s bank account to transfer money undetected. The younger Mr. Mezvinsky, a bespectacled, mop-headed Stanford graduate known for his confidence and teasing sense of humor, “had no clue,” Mr. Zauzmer said.
Mr. Mezvinsky and his father, whose prison term is scheduled to end in November 2008, did not respond to requests for comment.
Ms. Clinton and Mr. Mezvinsky seem serious about a future together, according to friends, some of whom wonder about a White House wedding in the event of a Clinton electoral victory.
Then again, if they marry, so will he. Oy.
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Re: Ed Mezvinsky
(Boy, I sure am posting a lot on your blog today. I need to cut back!)
"Years before, as a popular Ames High School student who made three key second-half steals in the 1955 state basketball championship game against Iowa City High, [Ed] Mezvinsky oozed a pleasant, confident drive. After all, he was the son of Abe Mezvinsky, who peddled fruit off railroad cars and rose from a Ukrainian immigrant with $5 in his pocket to the head of a small supermarket chain in central Iowa. Mezvinsky remembers how his Jewish father's store sat smack in the middle of a Catholic neighborhood in Ames. One day, the Catholic priest gave a sermon about one of the best examples of Christianity around: Abe Mezvinsky, the Jewish store owner who took in hobos and gave them food."
I grew up in Ames, Iowa, and got my first real job at Abe's (now housing a hardware store) Ames Fruit & Grocery. Never met or knew Ed, though, but my parents - life-long diehard Iowa Democrats - most surely did.
Eh, she could do worse. Like marrying into the Bush or Cheney families.
I'm not sure you'd ever be able to wash the blood off your hands with that crowd. Swindled investors and affairs are pretty bad, but dead soldiers, maimed soldiers, lying to the American people, and eroding civil iiberties seems a hell of a lot worse. Not to mention over 100,000 dead Iraqis.
Are you really as grim and humorless as your combox postings? Jeez.
Hardly.
Are you as snarky and nasty as you often come off in your posts? I assume not, but we both have our moments. The only reason to post about Chelsea was to be nasty and snarky; maybe this is considered "hunor" in your circles, but it just came out as nasty.
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