WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former US president Bill Clinton is raffling off a day with himself in New York to help his wife Hillary pay off a still hefty debt from her 2008 White House bid.
Anyone who fills in an online form or donates money by Monday on what used to be Hillary Clinton's campaign website -- hillarycampaign08.com -- will have their name put into a hat to win a day out with Bill in New York. The donations will go to pay down what Bill Clinton described in an email sent out earlier this week as "a few vestiges of debt" still hanging over his wife's campaign. A listing on the Federal Election Commission's website shows that Hillary Clinton's campaign is still carrying a debt of 771,000 dollars, owed to market research and consulting firm Penn, Schoen and Berland for "consulting polling/mail expenses."
One comment on the Internet said the Clintons were "in better shape than 99 percent of Americans and really should pay their own bills."
Whether you like Bill Clinton or not, you have to admit the guy is a genius. I bet he was watching the Curb your Enthusiasm when Larry gets auctioned off and has to have lunch with the annoying Seinfeld fan and thought, "hmm...LD made a decent chunk of change for that charity, but he could have made more." You see Bill is an innovator. He wasn't going to let people off easy with an auction where some annoying dude makes a high bid and everyone else hangs their head and keeps their money. Bill doesn't want to chill with some random guy with a man-crush and he doesn't want just one person's money. So he comes up with the idea to create a website and accept donations and then raffle off himself to one of the benefactors. Brilliant idea. Because Billy Boy isn't exactly a model of morality. He'll gladly take money from fat dudes and ugly chicks, but I'm pretty sure he'll have no problem prescreening the candidates before he reaches into that hat. And you can bet your ass that every name in that hat will be a gorgeous woman assuring Bill that he will be wining and dining a smokeshow on those donated dollars. Really an incredible business plan. Bill gets to have his cake and eat it too (and most likely have sex with it as well).
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