Reply #14: What's the angle here? Why are people invested in it one way

[DirkGently]

or the other? The Clintons aren't rich? $600,000 wedding. Million-dollar wedding. "Multi" million dollar wedding? They're rich. We're not supposed to think they're rich? It's "bullshit" to suggest this was a lavish wedding?

The whole flavor of protesting the amount sounds overly defensive to me. These are rich people who spend a lot of money on themselves. Whether that implies something about their character or not is up to the individual, but arguing about whether they're $600,000 wedding rich or $3 million wedding rich seems a bit silly.

I don't see any way to read it except that both people who don't like the Clintons and people who do, think that there is something negative about it. Conspicuous consumption by American political elites during a catastrophic recession may or may not actually be worthy of critique, but anyone very concerned about how much it cost one or the other obviously feels that it matters.