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Hillary Clinton Cancels Large Pottery Barn Order

By dan tynan - June 8, 2008, 1:41PM

Senator may lose $30 million deposit

By Dan Tynan
Special to The WitList

CHAPPAQUA,
NY -- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has quietly canceled a large order
from popular catalog store The Pottery Barn, sources close to her
former campaign have reported.

The former first lady had ordered
more than a dozen rooms' worth of furniture, rugs, and wall art, as
well as a new china set for 200 guests. "Senator Clinton will no longer
be needing those items," said an aide who asked to remain anonymous.
"We have no further comment at this time."

The Senator, who formally suspended her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday, had apparently placed the order last December, just ahead of the Iowa Caucuses.

Sources
close to her campaign say they remain stunned by the outcome. The
former first lady had been considered a virtual lock for the nomination
when the campaign began in January 2007.

"We
expected to be greeted as liberators," said one aide. "We were told it
would be a slam dunk. Then this Hussein character showed up and took us
by surprise. Obviously the intelligence we relied on was wrong."

The
aide acknowledged that it was probably a mistake to hang a "Mission
Accomplished" banner across the campaign's New York headquarters last
May. The aide also said choosing Celine Dion's "You and I Were Meant to Fly" as the campaign's official song was another blunder.

"Even
my mother doesn't listen to Celine Dion," he says. "Personally, I think
we should have stuck with our first choice, Elton John's 'The Bitch is
Back.' It was way catchier."