Hillary Clinton parties in Colombia: Photos of dancing, beer-slugging secretary of state cause stir
By Dylan Stableford | The Ticket – 6 hrs ago



Clinton dancing at Cafe Havana, April 15, 2012. (AFP)

Over the weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cut loose during her trip to the Summit of the Americas in Colombia, partying at a local club early Sunday morning.

And while the outing may be fairly typical of visitors to Latin American countries, photos showing Clinton dancing and throwing back a bottle of beer proved too irresistible for the tabloid press.

According to the New York Post, Clinton arrived at Cartagena's Cafe Havana with a dozen female aides just after midnight.

"Clinton quickly proved she's just a regular gal when it comes to drinking," the Post reported. "She eschewed a glass and sucked down her Aguila pilsener cerveza straight from the bottle."

According to a local paper cited by TMZ, Clinton and her party "ordered a dozen beers, two glasses of whiskey and bottles of water."

TMZ dubbed her the "Secretary of PARTYING." Sadly, Clinton's impromptu soiree lasted just half an hour.

The photo (below) landed on the Post's front page. The headline: "SWILLARY."

"Front page picture of 'Swillary' Clinton is brutally unfair," Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush and current CNN analyst, wrote on Twitter. "She drank a beer at a summit meeting event. So what?"

London's Telegraph latched onto the photos, too. "Is Hillary Clinton becoming an embarrassment as Secretary of State?" the paper's Niles Gardner asked in a blog post.

"Hillary Clinton will be the inspiration for my return to salsa this week," Salon's Irin Carmon tweeted.

Clinton throws back a beer in Colombia, April 15, 2012. (AFP/Getty)

This is not the first time Hillary's drinking on a diplomatic trip has been fodder for the press. In 2006, the New York Times relayed a 2004 anecdote about a vodka-drinking contest between Clinton and Sen. John McCain:

Two summers ago, on a Congressional trip to Estonia, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting that the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest.

Delighted, the leader of the delegation, Senator John McCain, quickly agreed. The after-dinner drinks went so well— memories are a bit hazy on who drank how much—that Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, later told people how unexpectedly engaging he found Mrs. Clinton to be. "One of the guys" was the way he described Mrs. Clinton, a New York Democrat, to some Republican colleagues.

so politicians really DO represent the citizenry,,,,

Nope, just inconvienance them and make the papers in the process

well, I have yet to visit columbia, but I have been in Mexico with other americans, and


this picture is pretty representative of what was happening,,lol

seems like TMZ is right on top of things, as usual...

"I have always thought the lady could use a stiff drink or two myself"......Bill Clinton......

now thats a job

getting paid to party, travel, and gossip,,,
about people who actually work for a living,,lol


the great american way,,,,

As long as she kept her shirt on I don't care. That is one woman who went from hot to Martha Stewart in a very short time.

Hmmmmmmm..... can we call a dusty, old, cobwebbed, southern region on this old mare a cherry?

Send her to Afghanastan and tell the talaban she's a virgin.....

wars OVER!

Can't blame ole Bill.....I wouldn't touch it with yours!

Man O man, that there's some heavy partying;
Thirteen people, twelve beers, two whiskeys, and bottles of water.
Oh yeah dem wemens really put it away.

The question I have is how much of our money was spent on her night of drunken debauchery????

Hey, I'm glad for her. She deserves to let her hair down and let it all hang out. Go girl!

I really doubt, unless she paid someone to, there was much debauching with her.

I know I wouldn't debauch her with yours.

And I am guessing goold ol' Bill was off in the famous Red Light districts while she was there?

Must have taken her Cue from the Secret Service!

A politician drinking one beer at a party that lasted 30 minutes? Yes, that's news!

Bringing context to the news! HOW DARE YOU!

I mean, it's such a controversy for a politician to have a drink and dance a little, right?

Only when it's a Democrat. Usually after they start drinking the bodies start pileing up, just as Mary Jo! Oh wait, sorry she's dead.

So.. you think Clinton having one drink at a 30 minute party is a bad thing and is newsworthy?