40 Goats and 20 Cows for Chelsea Clinton
Saturday, July 30th, 2005
But is it a fair trade?
CNN reports: “A Kenyan says he offered Bill Clinton 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter’s hand in marriage five years ago — and is still waiting for an answer.”
True love stands the test of time.
“Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor told the East Africa Standard newspaper last week that he wrote to Clinton asking for Chelsea’s hand in 2000 during the then-president’s visit to Kenya.Chepkurgor, a 36-year-old elected city councilor in Nakuru, recounted writing to the U.S president through the Kenyan government.
He described his plans for a grand wedding presided over by South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He named then-President Daniel arap Moi and the president of his university as references
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And why not? A good man is hard to find. Just ask Hillary.
“Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding,” he told the Standard in an interview published Friday during Clinton’s recent visit to Kenya.Chepkurgor said his letter praised Clinton’s leadership and commended his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, for standing by her husband “like an African woman” in the face of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Well, one thing is obvious: Mr. Chepkurgor has standards and a discriminating eye for quality. But can he be sure it’s daughter-like-mother? Some might argue that Hillary broke the mold.