Posted on 08/12/2009 6:45:26 AM PDT by Ebenezer
(English-language translation)
Washington - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who will turn 63 on August 19, celebrated his birthday in advance and to the hilt in an exclusive Las Vegas restaurant where a 225-gram [8-ounce] "wagyu" veal steak costs $240.
The one person conspicuously missing was Hillary Clinton, who is touring Africa and who missed the gathering which some Washington heavyweights attended, such as John Podesta who was [White House] Chief of Staff during Clinton's presidency.
The former President, who yesterday was one of the main speakers at a renewable-energy conference in Las Vegas, aroused suspicion among the press when he started to greet old friends who had no special interest in these types of forums.
In addition to Podesta, there was Hollywood magnate and good friend Steve Bing who lent him a private airplane for a recent humanitarian mission to North Korea in which the former President was able to secure the release of two American journalists who Pyongyang had detained.
His old friend Terry McAuliffe, a golf partner and former leader of the Democratic National Committee, also attended the party, as well as his former political advisor Paul Begala and Hollywood executive Haim Saban.
Former Vice President Al Gore, with whom Clinton had his ups and downs in the past, did not stay for the reunion.
Gore directs the television network the two journalists released by Pyongyang work for, an episode which appears to have renewed ties between him and Bill Clinton, but seemingly not enough.
Otherwise, few details have surfaced of the gathering at the Craftsteak Restaurant located at the MGM Grand Hotel, which recalls the famous saying, "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas".
Can you blame him?
“Happy Birthday Mr President”
from the girls at the Bada Bing
Hillary may not have been there, but Bill was channelling her, I’m sure.
BIRTHDAY?
On Oct. 29, 2006, he celebrated his “birthday” at a Rolling Stones concert in NYC at the Beacon Theater.
Maybe that’s just an excuse he uses to strip down to his birthday suit.
I can just picture him in bed with two hookers, playing Hillary’s blowup over and over on the Tivo, laughhing his butt off.
She sure didn’t look happy and was very fussy and edgy in the Congo, while Billy parties in Vegas with showgirls. My husband said “Hillary is just pissed because SHE wanted to be president, and is only a Secretary!”
An evening in Vegas with Bill Clinton would be a hoot. Happy Birthday, Mr. President!
“She sure didn’t look happy...”
She looks awful in the video of the snit that I saw.
It’s probably fun to hang out in Vegas with Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton and I have something in common. We will both celebrate our birthdays without Hillary; and both of us won't miss her.
“Hillary is just pissed because SHE wanted to be president, and is only a Secretary!”
Or maybe SHE wanted to be in Vegas to party with the showgirls?...
Early birthday, hell. It was a political business meeting.
I wonder if the two Bushes would be willing to get together with Bill for a grand commiseration of how the country is going to hell in a handcart under Obama. This has got to be painful for Bill to watch.
No wonder Hil was pissed.
Her hubby just got back from saving two hostages in N. Korea and is now celebrating his birthday in Vegas while his wife is sitting in a sweltering town hall meeting in that hell hole called the Congo
Seeing as how Obama ruined their chances to continue the Bush-Clinton Dynasty.
He’s not a dumb as I thought.
wiki: William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946)[1] served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
Hillary looked so pathetic slouched back in that chair in the Congo.
Fat torso and thighs covering the chair, limp bedraggled hair.
Insult that she was even there, injury, that she had to be reminded that Bill is still the attention getter.
All she is a Title with limited power. All of that “spade work” she says she did, and this is her reward.
Hows that Smart Diplomacy and Hope n’ Change workin’ for you Hill?
Let the old man have some fun!
I would call that a wonderful birthday present. If Hillary is 4000 miles away, that is still too close !!
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