It should come as no surprise President Barack Obama’s big bucks bundler boys from Chicago, real estate magnate Neil Bluhm; radio tycoon Fred Eychaner; Henry Crown & Company’s Jim Crown and Chopper Trading’s Rajiv Kumar Fernando were invited to the White House state dinner Wednesday night by POTUS — the fella whose campaign coffers they fill. Translation: Them that gots, gets. Get it? State dates . . . . . . and dinner delights: The White House state dinner honoring British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, was so very, very delicious! Consider: 1.) First lady Michelle Obama did what every red-blooded American woman would do: She seated actor George Clooney on her right side . . . er, next to her. 2.) Although only 45 guests on the 200-plus guest list were British, actress Carey Mulligan was invited because she is the fiancée of singer Marcus Mumford, whose British band Mumford and Sons was part of the state dinner’s entertainment. 3.) Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern, the stars of the hit PBS series “Downton Abbey,” were also in attendance — spending chat time linking McGovern, an American actress, with her American-born series character in an effort to emphasize good Anglo-American relations, don’tchaknow. 4.) Mayor Rahm Emanuel may be telling folks his wife, Amy, has inundated the family table with kale, but the state dinner menu approved by Mrs. Obama included braised baby kale picked that day from her White House garden. 5.) In an attempt to go all out on the Brit-Yank relationship thing, Newton Pippin apples — a variety grown by Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, were served at the bottom of the dinner’s dessert pudding. Finally, British actor Damian Lewis, the star of President Obama’s favorite TV show, “Homeland” — who was included on the guest list — is married to actress Helen McCrory, who plays Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. Blimey! The Blago beat . . . He’s gone. Irrepressible former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is now behind bars; perhaps figuring out ways to be heroic in prison; attempting to come to terms with a life forever altered. It was obvious Blago’s last stand was shaky, almost delusional; a final, meandering press conference that left observers convinced he was at a half bubble off plumb — especially when signing autographs while his children are urging him to come back inside the house. The whole Blagojevich case was a nightmare. Legally. Ethically. Morally. But a sentence has also been served on the family he is leaving behind; a wife who stood by him; two young daughters who adore him — all sentenced to a lifetime of dealing with heartbreak, headlines, and the behavior of a man who lived a life of imagined heroism, unethical choices, and criminal consequences. Patti Blagojevich must viscerally know we all pay for the choices we make in our lives; no matter how innocent or uninformed those choices are. Choosing a husband (or wife) is one of those choices. The real victims in this tragedy are Annie and Amy; two beloved daughters who now must live with the consequences of their father’s bizarre behavior. It is all so terribly unfair, but it is always the children of prisoners who pay the highest price, isn’t it. Leo lore ... Adhering to the new-age dictum one doesn’t have to be enmeshed in true love in order to canoodle, heartthrob actor Leonardo DiCaprio told the British tabloid press he has yet to find his true love — although the fella is obviously doing a lot of late-night work to find it. The flip side: It all seems like a bit of a diss to lingerie girlfriend Erin Heatherton, who hails from Illinois, but not to worry. The couple was spotted canoodling in Austin, Texas, recently regardless of his search for love. Sneedlings . . . A sad note: Condolences to WGN radio legend Roy Leonard on the death of his beloved wife, Sheila, who died Tuesday at the age of 85. The obit by Sun-Times writer Maureen O’Donnell is a paean to love. How we miss Roy’s voice; how Roy must miss his darling Sheila, the mother of his six sons. Perry parry . . . He’s got $35 million to give away? Former GOP presidential hopeful Texas Gov. Rick Perry claims he’ll finance his state’s Medicaid Women’s Health program if the federal government stops financing it because of the state’s decision to exclude Planned Parenthood from their health care program. Perry is anti-Planned Parenthood because it funds abortion.
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