Clinton, Obama Engage In Beer-Off

The Pennsylvania primary is around the corner, and with the votes of blue collar workers on the line, Democratic candidates are engaged in a full-blown beer-off.

Hillary started the weekend off right, chasing a shot of Crown Royal with a mug of Old Styles on Saturday.

Obama took some time during his Monday morning speech to the Alliance for American Manufacturing to question Hillary's swilling candor, as well as to attack charges that he is "out of touch" with the American public:

Now it may be that I chose my words badly. It wasn't the first time and it won't be the last. But when I hear my opponents, both of whom have spent decades in Washington, saying I'm out of touch, it's time to cut through their rhetoric and look at the reality.

After all, you've heard this kind of rhetoric before. Around election time, the candidates can't do enough for you. They'll "promise you anything, give you a long list of proposals and even come around, with TV crews in tow, to throw back a shot and a beer.

But if those same candidates are taking millions of dollars in contributions from the PACs and lobbyists, ask yourself, who are they going to be toasting once the election is over?

But not so fast. Not too long ago, Obama himself took a weekend trip to the bar, Yuengling in hand, according to the Politico:

He sipped a Yuengling beer, but his local knowledge fell short when he confessed he didn't know much about the regional brew widely consumed in Pennsylvania.

"You know I got a beer down there," Obama said to a male patron. "What do they call it? A Yuengling?"

"Yuengling," the man confirmed. "Like you didn't know."

"Trying a Pennsylvania beer, that's what I'm talking about," said Obama, his sleeves rolled up, smiling. "Is it expensive, though? ... Wanna make sure it's not some designer beer or something."

[WATCH]

Comments

[batgirlevi]

It seems that the campaign in PA is going on for ever and will never be over.

PA is like purgatory.

[loki]

Consider the source though. Harvard. All they can produce is arrogant morons who are running our country into the ground due to their passion for corruption and greed.

[NotAnAbuser]

http://multimedia.bostonherald.com/images/9ec532a898_hillarydrink.jpg

This is funnee.

[kenjisan]

still's just don't do her justice

this is even better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsmFDYyK4U

[LawOfAttraction]

Everytime I see Barack in one of these social gatherings where he's obviously so affable and personable and charismatic and charming, I keep winding up screaming at the screen "For god's sake - take off your tie, man!" lol

The fact that he went bowling in a tie just kills me. lol..

I love that man like King Leonidas and would follow him into battle like a Spartan any day, but he's GOT to take the tie off when he's in casual mode.

[OverIt]

I hear you. I think part of it is that he looks sooo young when he is not all "dressed up".

[ginnypoo]

Didn't Obama do that last week.........

[mrJJ]

All you young people that dislike Hillary; please get your facts straight! Repeat after me Hillary doesn't lie!

Heres a short video to prove my point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsmFDYyK4U&eurl

[drzoon]

hilary is a liar. was fired for being a liar from the watergate commtt... at age 27. she just has a very complicated relationship with the truth. she can't help it

[Nonamnesiac]

Sothefu*kwhat? This is about young Americans and Iraqis being killed and maimed against the interests of the Untied States without end. This is about ending NAFTA and its progeny. This is about universal health care. This isn't Animal House.

[GBartrem]

Never heard of Yuengling, doesn't mean I wouldn't drink it. I'm more of a Strohs and Jim Beam man myself..:) kinda sad how all the good local beers have gone. Replaced by Bud and Miller, but the memories live on.

[Shantee]

Look, they're both pandering, that's what candidates do.......they pander to the rich, the working class, the middle class, the poor, the good, bad and the ugly, the whole nine yards....it's called campaigning.

[rzan]

There is such a thing as compaigning and maintaining your dignity and credibility. Hillary does not seem to understand what that is.

[danceswithyids]

It sure ain't bowling!

[Lazslo]

So the message is that Obama says Hillary is insincere, and Huffington Post says that Obama is a hypocrit because he drank a beer. That's good reporting right there.

[treadway123]

Ya, well there's big difference in Hillary clinton takeing a throwing down shots of crown royal like a man and doing a beer chaser---------and following up with the story of how she went shoting as a kid! Obama sitting there sipping a beer and seem to be avoiding drinking myuch of it at all-------------------------------And clintons throwing down shots of whiskey! You know and I know she Pandering to the people! And after a couple of those shots with beer chasers and her gun skills----------we'd better put her in a hollywood western show than answering the phone at 3 in the morning--------if she wasn't to drunk to ans. the phone that is!

[roncraw]

you must have a different vidio than anyone else.you can get paid by the Obama people showing her drink more than one.Maybe you are just trying to emulate your messiah whose list of lies gets longer every day.

[ginnypoo]

So you admit how sexist you are by saying she 'drank like a man"......you are a jerk.

[Moxo]

How come politicians seeking office pander to the NRA by saying how they love guns, had one as a kid, love to go hunting and just went hunting a few days ago... but they never pander to Big Alcohol by admitting they love booze, drank as a kid, love drinking and in fact downed a few shots that morning?

Where did 'Big Alky' go wrong, that they can't get that sort of support from a candidate? Not enough Lobbyists? Not enough outcry that 21 was in the earliest age to legally drink? Not enough drunks in Congress?

[SolarPowerGuy]

Hey now, you gotta choose -- the gun lobby, or the booze lobby. You simply can't have 'em both at once -- just ask Deadeye Dick! :^)

[Dunnage]

He bowled a 37.

[lowry99]

Obama sipped a beer from the oldest brewery in the US and didn't know what it was...he didn't think he was pandering.

Hillary once drank John McCain under the table with vodka shots, but he thinks her having a beer is pandering.

He can only bowl a 37.

Just go windsurfing and get it over with, Barack.

[peskyliberal]

I'm sorry, but I have to ask. Is bowling a sport?

Signed,

Latte-drinking, Tennis-playing, Book-reading Progressive.

[SolarPowerGuy]

Look at my profile, and then listen carefully to what I have to say in reply to you.

Yes, bowling is a sport. Don't believe me? Try to do it well.

[Willemaq]

Yeah we know, the presidential litmus test should revolve around BEER, BOWLING & BUCKSHOT. That's really gotten us far with George & Dick!

[treadway123]

Yes you got it right Lowry99! he sipped beer , because he doesn't drink much! read his profile! Know Hillary throws down shots and chases beer like a man , because she really likes to drink! If I had a choice what one of these people i'd want to use for a role model for my grandkids, I'd have to pick Obama, the father to two lovely girls who stops to call home often and return home often, who doesn't miss his childrens residals or their special events! If I had to choose who I thought would be the sober one at 3 int he morning to answer a phone------------again I'd have to say obama! If I looked at all three candidates war voteing or war approval records-------------again I'd have to choose Obama who will do what it takes to keeps us out of war----not vote tok put us in it.

[nativeeyes]

BILLARY CLINTOONS MAKING 109 MILLION AND MCCAIN !!!!

It Takes Real Chutzpah for a Guy Who Owns Eight Houses (McCain) to Call Barack Obama an "Elitist

Obama's wife makes more than he does.. Obama by himself make less than moms..

Just because he was still paying student loans up until 2 years ago from Harvard doesn't make him an elitist. It's makes him the only Presidential Candidate that closer to us normal people than you think..

But nooooooooooooo, the Media or out of touch MOM BARKER and MCCAIN THE INSANE BRAIN would jump on the chance to call POT calling the KETTLE BLACK...

[RobinL]

Is this woman capable of doing anything that smacks of spontaneity and originality? Who is she now and what exactly is her message here? I am tough. I am one of you. I am drunk?