The regular guy having a brewski photo-op.
The cure for this is to change the rules after you're really wasted:
Take a drink everytime he tells the truth.
You'll be sober in record time!
Somehow, I don't believe John F. Thurston al-Kerry III really would be comfortable having an "Imp and an Ahrn" (a boilermaker of Imperial whiskey and Iron City Beer) with his newfound millworker buddies dahn at a Sahsside tavern. He'd pretend to sip an IC Light, then run to the bus to rinse out his mouth with Veuve Cliquot.
The Heinz Kerrys do Wisconsin:
After the Beloit event, Kerry's day was filled with the kind of Wisconsin backdrops one would expect from a presidential visit. In fact, Kerry did one thing for the cameras that you won't see his opponent do: He drank beer, and Bush stopped drinking years ago. On a visit to the Joseph Huber Brewing Co. in Monroe, Kerry sipped a richly hued Berghoff Famous Red Ale, and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, sampled a lighter Solstice Wit Bier.
Moments earlier, the two stopped at Baumgartner's bar and cheese store in Monroe, a visit prompted by Teresa Heinz Kerry's enthusiasm for what she called "stinky cheese." [That's why she married Effin] She ordered a Limburger sandwich with raw onions and mustard on rye, and a pound of Limburger to go. [The better to keep Effin away from her]
In the bar, Kerry chatted with patrons, signs overhead proclaiming, "Limburger, Don't Eat It With Your Nose." Maps of Switzerland and Wisconsin decorated another wall. full story