The news about Hillary Clinton donating $5 million of her own money to her presidential bid struck me as odd.
How was it that someone of once modest means who claimed to have worked selflessly for 35 years ("fighting for YOU!") in the notoriously badly-paid public interest sector had become so wealthy?
Sure there's been some financial scandals.
And as the late Sen. Everett Dirksen used to say, "A million here, a million there" it adds up to real money."
But why focus on the negative?
Then, suddenly, a tune entered my head and I thought, maybe if I offered a tailored version of it to the Clinton campaign, they'd use it to replace that awful Celine Dion song that used to be Hillary's campaign anthem.
And maybe they'd give me some of that moolah.
I promise I wouldn't ask what account at Clintons, Inc. it came from, or which lobbyist forked it over.
(I'm sure it was in a gesture of sheer generosity--why think evil of people, K Street lawyers have hearts too, no? Wasn't it those nice medical insurance lobbyists who hired that couple, Harry and Louise?)
If you ask me, it's like Bill with that race coding thing. How unfair the criticism! (And how slick he was ;) )
Always leave just a little wiggle room, small enough to fit the word "is" through. Or maybe a cigar. ...
Anyway, remember that girls" song, "It"s My Party," written by Wally Gold, John Gluck and Herb Weiner and recorded by Lesley Gore?
Well how about this version for HRC?
IT'S MY (DEMOCRATIC) PARTY
Nobody knows where my Bill has gone
Monica (Gennifer/Kathleen/Paula/etc.) left the same time
Why was he holding her/their hand(s)
When he's supposed to be mine?
It's my Democratic Party, and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you
Playin' my constituents, flip-flopping like a Wallenda,
Leave me alone for a while
'Till Bill's dancin' with me
I've got no reason to smile
It's my Democratic Party, and I'll cry if I want to ...
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