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H. Clinton gets shizzfaced
Ok, not really. I think it looks fun, and not at all "girls gone wild" as the headlines suggest. CLICKY
Hillary Clinton parties in Colombia: Photos of dancing, beer-slugging secretary of state cause stir
Over the weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cut loose during her trip to the Summit of the Americas in Colombia, partying at a local club early Sunday morning.
And while the outing may be fairly typical of visitors to Latin American countries, photos showing Clinton dancing and throwing back a bottle of beer proved too irresistible for the tabloid press.
According to the New York Post, Clinton arrived at Cartagena's Cafe Havana with a dozen female aides just after midnight.
"Clinton quickly proved she's just a regular gal when it comes to drinking," the Post reported. "She eschewed a glass and sucked down her Aguila pilsener cerveza straight from the bottle."
According to a local paper cited by TMZ, Clinton and her party "ordered a dozen beers, two glasses of whiskey and bottles of water."
TMZ dubbed her the "Secretary of PARTYING." Sadly, Clinton's impromptu soiree lasted just half an hour.
The photo (below) landed on the Post's front page. The headline: "SWILLARY."
"Front page picture of 'Swillary' Clinton is brutally unfair," Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush and current CNN analyst, wrote on Twitter. "She drank a beer at a summit meeting event. So what?"
London's Telegraph latched onto the photos, too. "Is Hillary Clinton becoming an embarrassment as Secretary of State?" the paper's Niles Gardner asked in a blog post.
"Hillary Clinton will be the inspiration for my return to salsa this week," Salon's Irin Carmon tweeted.
Clinton throws back a beer in Colombia, April 15, 2012. (AFP/Getty)
This is not the first time Hillary's drinking on a diplomatic trip has been fodder for the press. In 2006, the New York Times relayed a 2004 anecdote about a vodka-drinking contest between Clinton and Sen. John McCain:
Two summers ago, on a Congressional trip to Estonia, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting that the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest.
Delighted, the leader of the delegation, Senator John McCain, quickly agreed. The after-dinner drinks went so well? memories are a bit hazy on who drank how much?that Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, later told people how unexpectedly engaging he found Mrs. Clinton to be. "One of the guys" was the way he described Mrs. Clinton, a New York Democrat, to some Republican colleagues.
Re: H. Clinton gets shizzfaced
Well, I for one don't think she has time to have fun or let her hair down. I mean traveling a bazillion miles a month, meeting with heads of state and solving world crisis' has to be more fun and less stress than we can ever imagine.
And pixy, stop with the kid. I can't take it.
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My thought exactly.
So one person had TWO drinks?! *gasp*
Seriously? We're back to 'ladies don't drink from bottles'?
ETA: It is nice of Ari Fleischer to side with her publicly.
Two drinks in THIRTY minutes......
It's practically a frat house kegger.
Don't eat the fruit, Hillz!!!!!!
This is a thing? Seriously?
Oh absolutely. My college roommate was positively scandalized when she went to a wedding where the women were drinking beer from bottles. The BRIDESMAIDS, even. Heaven forfend.
I asked my mother about it. She was less stuffy about it, but conceded that's she'd always either automatically been served in a mug/glass or asked for one while at social events. So I guess that's why I never noticed. They just give me a glass.
um, yeah...when my mom and step-dad got married, they had a super casual outdoor wedding and reception. it was right after I finished college and I guess my grandmother did know that I ever drank anything, much less beer.
I walked by her carrying an open bottle of Sam Adams and she grabbed my hand and said "I sure hope that's for your boyfriend" and when I told her that no, it was for me, she told me that ladies don't drink beer--especially not from a bottle. I just laughed and told her that I usually drink cheaper beer and from a can :-)
y'all are blowin my mind. In my family heaven help you if you pour something into a glass when you could've had it from the can/bottle. We are clearly more concerned with unnecessary dishes than appearances. lol