Caveat Emptor

When an e-mail message from the executive director of Senator Clinton’s campaign committee, Patti Solis Doyle, landed in our in-box last week, we had to chuckle. It announced that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign fund-raising operation would once again start selling $55 designer T-shirts with images of Mrs. Clinton’s face affixed to their fronts. Less than six weeks ago, on March 29, the huckster had written, “Next week, we’ll be placing our final fulfillment order with our printer and we will stop taking orders on Thursday, April 1st…for those of you who have yet to partake, we want you to know that supplies are low and demand is high. Reserve yours now before our last order is finalized!!”