Posted on 07/25/2005 8:17:42 AM PDT by presidio9
Bill Clinton, used to a warm reception on his global goodwill missions, came away from Kenya this weekend with more than he bargained for.
The former US president must now consider whether the offer of 40 goats and 20 cows, made by an apparently love-struck local official, is sufficient to persuade him to give up his daughter Chelsea for marriage.
Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor wrote to Clinton through Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister, and promised him that he would look after his daughter in style.
"Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding," promised the electrical engineering graduate.
"I would have invited South African Aglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu to preside at the ceremony."
The councillor also gave the names of former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi and two of his college mates as character references.
Mr Chepkurgor said he had been impressed by Hillary Clinton for standing by her man through the Monica Lewinksy scandal "like an African woman."
A Kenyan man traditionally has to pay a dowry in goats and cows to his bride's family - the offer Mr Chepkurgor made for Chelsea is a generous one that befits a big man's daughter.
He said he would be willing to travel to America to visit her family, but refused to give more details of his suit, as it is private matter between the parents of the bride and groom.
Mr Clinton arrived in Kenya at the end of last week to discuss how the Clinton Foundation would help the country's anti-AIDS programmes but made no mention of his daughter's dowry.
I'd rather you had posted pictures of cows and goats.
Goats and cows ? Ah! an "in kind" trade.
She sure looks like VINCE FOSTER!!!
There's so many jokes in here, it makes my head spin.
Throw in a few sheep, and Bill might take deal.
Rumor has it that he declined the goats etc. but accepted a sheep for himself...
Goats and cows ? Ah! an "in kind" trade.
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Knowing Billy Boy, if nobody had been watching, he would have taken the deal -- especially if the goats were cute!!!
reminds me of the "PIig for Hillary" joke.
Wasn't Bill offered a horse and a cow to take Hillary off her parents' hands, and isn't it true that he took the horse instead?
oh this is too much
Well, she'd be marrying up.
DEAD?
It would have been nice if you had posted a barf alert.
If the man offered to buy sufficient amounts of Tyson chicken, Clinton would try to talk her into it.
Good Trade!!!
"Well, she'd be marrying up."
Some people will do anything to get out of the house.
That is the ugliest goat I have ever seen.
What an idiot, the guy should have offered the 'toon just one female sheep. Clinton would have accepted.
"The former US president must now consider whether the offer of 40 goats and 20 cows, made by an apparently love-struck local official, is sufficient to persuade him to give up his daughter Chelsea for marriage"
Off the top of my head, he'd better ask Web Hubbell. Talk about you cattle futures, lol.
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