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+title: Tee-totaling
+date: '2007-06-19T02:58:40-04:00'
+permalink: /tee-totaling/
+tags:
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+    - politics
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+I’m quite behind the times on this (appropriate for mon état, quand je souffre du décalage horaire), but the talk of the lefty blogosphere a couple of weeks ago was the much that was being made of W’s having been spotted drinking what his advisors insisted was a non-alcoholic beer (and, of course, the Beeb’s [somewhat tickled connection](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6733763.stm) of that beverage to the “stomach bug” that apparently knocked him out of commission the next day. One might also note the gleeful reminder of H.W.’s stomachal gift to the prime minister of Japan back in 1992).
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+Here, however, what’s being circulated with equal schadenfreude is the [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uxb0JHqzlA) of an apparently drunken Nicolas Sarkozy in a G8 press conference. *His* advisors insist that Sarko never drinks, and that he simply wasn’t used to the long hours and late nights of negotiating, and that lack of sleep produced his wooziness. It’s hard, however, to imagine a late night with Vladimir Putin that could conceivably end in sobriety.
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+On the other hand, if I’d been asked to give a morning press conference yesterday, I might have looked much the same. Today, after a full night of sleep (though one admittedly produced with a bit of prescribed assistance), I’d be a little more on my game.
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