It’s official. There are now three men running for office. This demonstrates that Hillary Clinton, graduate of Wellesley and Yale, wife of a Governor and President, Senator from New York, resident of one of the wealthiest areas in NY State, is, in fact, just one boys.
Hey, because they are such good drinking buddies, maybe McCain can make her his running mate after she loses to Obama.
How Hillary Clinton beat John McCain at vodka drinking
Should Hillary Clinton defy all odds to become the Democratic presidential candidate, she will know for a fact that she has the beating of her Republican rival John McCain…when it comes to drinking contests, at least.
It has emerged that Mrs Clinton took on Mr McCain at downing vodka shots when the two senators were on a congressional tour of Estonia in 2004.
Rumours of the drinking contest have surfaced before, but had always been dismissed as apocryphal until the story was finally confirmed by Mrs Clinton’s campaign manager, and by the owner of a restaurant in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
Dimitri Demjanov, proprietor of Gloria’s, said the two political heavyweights managed four shots each before Mrs Clinton was declared the winner, though the rules of the contest remain somewhat opaque.
Was it first past the post? Did Mr McCain demand a recount? Mr Demjanov refused to say, but when asked who was the winner he did not hesitate before answering: ‘Hillary won. She stayed correct after four shots. And John McCain too.’
Mr Demjanov spoke briefly to the BBC after Terry McAuliffe, Mrs Clinton’s campaign manager, said in an interview that Mrs Clinton had ‘beaten’ Mr McCain in the drinking contest.
He said: ‘She loves to sit, throw ’em back. We all hear about the story that she and John McCain actually had a shot contest, I think in the Ukraine or somewhere around the world. And she actually beat John McCain in a shot contest.
‘She’s a girl from Illinois who likes to throw ’em down with the rest of us.’
Mr McCain’s ‘people’ were rather less forthcoming, saying their man had been for a few drinks with Mrs Clinton but denying a contest.
Quite why Mr McAuliffe chose to reveal the story at such a crucial time in the Democratic campaign is unclear, but tales of hard drinking rarely turn out to be vote winners.
