Posted on 01/29/2006 10:07:29 AM PST by wagglebee
Washed up baseball players can still make a killing by autographing baseballs for their old fans. For ex-president Bill Clinton, it's even easier to cash in on his political celebrity.
Mr. Clinton will be charging $5,000 a piece to New Zealand businessmen who want to spend an hour in his presence when he travels to Auckland next month.
Reports the New Zealand Herald:
"A small group can book an hour with the former president for $5000 a head and for that they will get a handshake and a photograph and a chance to mingle with the only Democratic president the win two terms in the last 60 years."
Mr. Clinton is offering a volume discount for groups of 50 or more - who will pay a mere $150,000 [$3,000 a head] for the honor of basking in his aura.
Clinton's handshake fee is in addition the $2,400 cost of attending the one-day business forum. [$1,895 if tickets purchased before Jan. 31.)
Other speakers include former Disney Corp. CEO Michael Eisner and Carly Fiorina, who used to run Hewlett Packard.
Mr. Eisner and Ms. Fiorina will apparently be shaking hands at no extra cost.
I think I'd have given five K for the chance to meet Harry Truman. I think I'd have given five K for the chance to meet JFK. Jimmy Carter? Ehhh...probably not.
Bubba?
:-D )))
Not a chance.
I'd have paid a lot more to meet Reagan.
Oh, absolutely, but as far as Dems go.
Offer me $5000 and a latex glove and perhaps I may consider shaking his hand.
Chances are that if a meeting were placed in motion with the Gipper, payment would not have been an issue of discussion. ; )
I had the chance, and unfortunately couldn't be in DC that day.
Do you know where that hand has been?
It happens.
What an opportunity worthy of discussion though, huh?
Cindy Sheehan gets in for free--that is if she is through sucking up to the Venezelan commies .
BTW, who pays her airfare? Could it be George Soros??
There's got to be some prostitutes out there worthy of respect no matter how minute it may be.
A blanket statement like this can only demean prostitutes as a whole across the country.
I love that line. It almost sounds like they're saying "the only Democratic president in the last 60 years who fooled the populace long enough to serve two terms."
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