ABC News’ Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton stopped by Bronko’s Restaurant and Lounge in Crown Point, Ind., tonight. Clinton stood by the bar and took a shot of Crown Royal whiskey. She took one sip of the shot, then another small sip, then a few seconds later threw her head back and finished off the whole thing.
Clinton later sat down at a table and enjoyed some pizza and beer, and called over Mayor Tom McDermott of Hammond, Ind., to come join the table.
“Every time I get around you we start drinking, senator,” the mayor exclaimed.
Clinton nodded and raised her glass.
“It’s Saturday night, though, Tom,” she said.
The senator was eager to get a slice of pepperoni.
“I got one pepperoni, I think it’s cheese and pepperoni,” she said.
A fellow diner made a toast in Clinton’s honor and she raised her beer glass and touched the glasses of people sitting at her table. Clinton was looking for a staffer and her seat partner said, “Maybe he’s up at the bar.”
“My campaign drives people to drink,” Clinton said with a smile.
Then she turned to her ABC and CBS embedded campaign reporters.
“The only bad thing about this wonderful time with you is that every bite I take is recorded for posterity,” she said. “These two young people are really very very nice but their job is to get something on film that looks really weird, so I try to accommodate them as much as often.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/clinton-takes-a.html
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., raises her mug of beer in a toast with Hammond, Ind., Mayor Tom McDermott, left, as she stops at the bar during a campaign stop at Bronko's restaurant in Crown Point, Ind., Saturday, April 12, 2008. Ed and Patty Hall are seated right. I'll be she really wanted Absolut.
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