Clinton Offered 40 Goats For Chelsea
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James Joyner | Thursday, July 28, 2005 |
A rather amusing story that has been buried in the e-mail inbox for a few days:
Clinton Offered 40 Goats For Daughter (Sky News)
Former US president Bill Clinton has been offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter by a love-struck African government official. Mr Clinton was offered the deal on a recent trip to Kenya. He was offered the animals as a traditional African way of getting a father to give away his daughter’s hand in marriage. The dowry is a very generous one by the country’s own standards.
Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor wrote to Mr Clinton through Kenya’s Foreign Minister. He said: “Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding.
Indeed.
via occasional contributor Richard Gardner
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40 goats! What is he crazy! He'd have to give me two goats to marry her.
Just think how many goats Jenna would rake in ... Bush might be tempted.
Don't laugh!
40 goats at 150.00 = 6,000
20 cows at 1,000 = 20,000
that comes to 26,000.
I would take it. Put those on some land and let them multiply and make a great profit.
That is only 10 goats more than he offered for Hillary.
I'm not the Clinton's biggest fan, but I think this is kind of sweet.
Newsflash - Clinton negotiates new deal for 20 goats that includes Chelsea and Hillary. Terms say suitor must be willing to accept both the bride and her mother-in-law until death do they part.
Looks like there's a "daughters of former heads of state" bubble! Watch out!
The guy tried ot throw in a pig but Clinton said he already had one of those...
Oh, I'm sorry, was this a caption contest?
Wow. Even I wouldn't have posted some of these comments.
Doesn't stop me from snickering, but at least I feel guilty about it. ;-)
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