> >> THIS IS A CLASSIC -
> >>
> >> On a trip to Great Britain while he was President of the United
> >> States , Bill Clinton had a meeting with Queen Elizabeth.
> >>
> >> During that meeting, he asked her, 'How does one manage to run a
> >> country so smoothly?'
> >>
> >> 'That's easy,' the Queen replied, 'You surround yourself with
> >> intelligent ministers and advisors.'
> >>
> >> 'But how can I tell whether they are intelligent or not?', asked
> >> Bill.
> >>
> >> You ask them a riddle,' she replied, and with that she pressed a
> >> button and said, 'Would you please send Tony Blair in.'
> >>
> >> When Blair arrived, the Queen Said, 'I have a riddle for you to
> >> answer for me: Your parents had a child and it was not your sister. It
> >> also was not your brother. Who was this child?'
> >>
> >> Blair replied, 'That's easy. The child was me.'
> >>
> >> 'Very good,' said the Queen. 'You may go now.'
> >>
> >> Sizing up his wife's chances in her presidential bid, and
> >> thinking back on that meeting, Bill Clinton spoke to Hillary. He said to
> >> her, 'I have a Riddle for you, and the answer is very important. Your
> >> parents had a child, and it was not your sister, and it was not your
> >> brother. Who was that child?'
> >>
> >> Hillary replied, 'Yes, it is clearly very important that we
> >> determine the answer. Can I deliberate on this for awhile?'
> >>
> >> 'Yes,' said Bill, 'I'll give you four hours to come up with the
> >> answer.'
> >>
> >> So Hillary called a meeting of her campaign team, from top to
> >> bottom, and asked them the riddle. But after much discussion and many
> >> suggestions, none of them had a satisfactory answer. She was quite
> >> upset, not knowing what she would tell her husband, the former
> >> President. As Hillary was leaving her meeting she ran into her most
> >> formidable challenger to her Presidential Nomination, Barack Obama.
> >>
> >> So she said, 'Mr. Obama, can you answer this riddle for me? Your
> >> parents had a child, and it was not your sister, and it was not your
> >> brother. Who was the child?'
> >>
> >> 'That's seems pretty easy,' said Obama, 'I think the child would
> >> be me.'
> >>
> >> 'Oh thank you,' said Hillary. 'You may just have ensured my
> >> nomination for the democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United
> >> States !'
> >>
> >> So Hillary went back to Bill and said, 'I think I know the
> >> answer to your riddle. The child was Barack Obama.!'
> >>
> >> 'No, you dip!' shouted Bill. 'The child was Tony Blair.'
> >>> >>