Who says you can’t profit from having a son or a daugher these days?
Former US president Bill Clinton has been offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter by a love-struck African government official.
That’s more than anyone offered for Janet Reno. MORE:
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.
“I would have invited South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu to preside at the ceremony.”
We can hear Rush now:”Did you hear? Chelsea Clinton was married and there was a tutu at the wedding. This is what I’ve told you, folks, about these Democrats. Hillary did it…”
And speaking of Hillary:
Mr Chepkurgor also said he was also impressed by Mr Clinton’s wife, Hillary, for standing by Mr Clinton during the Monica Lewinksy scandal.
He said Mrs Clinton acted like a “like an African woman”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.