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blood,” he said.
The descendants of barbecues—campaign food stops—are
decidedly more sober than their
pre-television antecedents. Only
recently did Barack Obama begin
incorporating regular beer-drinking sessions into his trips. The
strategy shows he is “of a different
generation than past presidents
and a person who allows himself to indulge,” according to Josh
King, former director of production of presidential events for Bill
Clinton, noting that neither Bush
nor Clinton drank in public.
“FOUR MORE BEERS!”
At a Knoxville, Iowa, coffee shop
on August 14, the President handed a local man a bottle of his own
White House homebrew, revealing that he takes it with him on
his campaign bus. The previous
day at the Iowa state fair, Obama
stopped in the Bud Lite tent and
offered to buy a round as members
of the crowd chanted “Four More
Beers!” Like scores of other politicians—including Romney the year
before—Obama also devoured one
Little Caesar’s
pizza employee
Marci Mille