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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin kicked Dana Rohrbachers ass in a drunken arm wrestling match.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/13/20479748-congressman-recounts-inebriated-arm-wrestling-match-with-putin?liteCongressman recounts inebriated arm-wrestling match with Putin
By Carrie Dann, NBC News
If youre like most Americans, you've probably at one point lost a drunken arm-wrestling match to a notoriously brusque future world leader to settle an argument over geopolitical power shifts following a few drinks at an Irish pub after a touch football game.
No?
California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, in fact, says hes done just that.
The congressman told Kitty Felde of local public radio station KPCC-FM that, in the early 1990s, he got smoked by young Vladimir Putin, then a local official in St. Petersburg, in a booze-fueled Feat of Strength.
The story goes like this: Seeking refreshment after a game of touch football (which featured a lineup including Scooter Libby, the future chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney who was convicted of obstruction of justice), Rohrabacher and some visiting Russian politicians -- including the relatively unknown Putin stopped by a DC watering hole, the Irish Times Pub.
After throwing back a few, the Americans and the Russians exchanged words about who won the Cold War, etc.
And so, Rohrabacher went on to explain, we decided to settle it like men do when theyve had too much to drink in the pub.
(Read: the two challenged each other to an arm-wrestling match.)
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Putin kicked Dana Rohrbachers ass in a drunken arm wrestling match. (Original Post)
Fuddnik
Sep 2013
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pkdu
(3,977 posts)1. Who picked up the bar tab? Nt
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)3. Probably Jack Abramoff or Ralph Reed.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)2. cool story, Congressman