Apparently she not only wanted to be invited to Barack Obama's 60th birthday party, but to be a "special guest." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9886915/Meghan-Markle-desperately-wanted-attend-Obamas-birthday-bash.html
My God, what an ego.
Does she have any celebrity friends these days? Does she have any friends at all?
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shareMore than a little, Hon.
shareThe Obamas are getting reamed for the people they neglected to invite in favor of hollywood bobble-heads, mainly :
all the people that made their political career happen, who were there at the start, who paid a price.
maureen down takes them down in today's NYT :
As president, he didn’t try hard enough on things we needed. He was a diffident debutante with a distaste for politics. Post-presidency, he is trying too hard on things we don’t need. The culture is already swimming in Netflix deals, celebrity worship, ostentatious displays of wealth, not to mention podcasts. Did the world really need “Renegades,” his duet with Bruce Springsteen?
We already knew Obama gravitated to stars but it was disillusioning to see it on such a grand scale last weekend.
“I think the nouveaux riches Obamas are seriously tone-deaf,” said the authority on opulence, André Leon Talley. “We all love Beyoncé. But people have so many things to worry about with Covid, voting rights, climate warming. People are afraid of being evicted from their homes. And the Obamas are in Marie-Antoinette, tacky, let-them-eat-cake mode. They need to remember their humble roots.”
Obama was a cool cat as a candidate in 2008, but after he won, he grew increasingly lofty. Now he’s so far above the ground, he doesn’t know what’s cool. You can’t be cool if you diss the people who took risks for you when you were a junior senator — only a few years out from paying off your student loans — taking on the fearsome Clinton machine.
Many of those who helped Obama achieve the moonshot, becoming the first African American president and then becoming uber rich, were disinvited.
The party crystallized the caricature of the Democratic Party that Joe Biden had to fight against in order to get elected. It was as far from Flint and Scranton as you can imagine: an orgy of the 1 percent — private jets, Martha’s Vineyard, limousine liberals...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/14/opinion/barack-obama-birthday.html