Hahaha! Yeltsin drunk during visit with Clinton, hailing cab in underwear

[babylonsister]

You can't make this stuff up! B-)

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/from-the-clinton-interviews-a-drunken-boris-yeltsin-on-pennsylvania-ave.php?ref=fpblg


From The Clinton Interviews: A Drunken Boris Yeltsin On Pennsylvania Ave.
Rachel Slajda | September 21, 2009, 9:01AM


In a new book recounting 79 taped interviews with President Clinton while he was in office, author Taylor Branch has bestowed us with some gems, such as this one about Boris Yeltsin's drinking:

Yeltsin was visiting Washington in 1995 when, late at night, Secret Service agents found the Russian president stripped to his underwear and trying to hail a cab on Pennsylvania Avenue. He wanted a pizza, he slurred.

USA Today reporter Susan Page unearthed the Yeltsin bit. The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President is based on the secret interviews between old friends Branch and Clinton -- the tapes of which Clinton kept hidden in his sock drawer.

[Captain Hilts]

1. He got totally shitfaced at a hotel in Philly my bro-in-law worked at. Also blotto at Hopkins in MD.

[Jennicut]

2. Poor Boris. He obviously had a major problem.

But its funny too.
I so want to hear all those tapes.

[MUAD_DIB]

3. Alcoholism is funny?

:shrug: Really?

[girl_interrupted]

4. babylonsister one of my favorite videos of Clinton & Yeltsin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHfbpL0NDmw

[Mrs. Overall]

5. Shocking, isn't it? I've never watched a movie or TV scene that depicted drunk people that was

funny.

Now the humor police are telling us not to laugh at a world leader, shit-faced, waving at a cab in his underwear?

[JackRiddler]

6. Destroying your nation is funny?

Shock therapy - disastrous.

Had the parliament shelled when it suspended his absolute powers.

Plunder for the oligarchs.

Finally provided for a fixed transition to Putin (an offer Yeltsin couldn't refuse).

An alcoholic, abuser, dictator and kleptocrat - who would have thought it all went together?

[Jennicut]

7. Hailing a cab in your underwear is kind of funny. Being an alcoholic is obviously not.

Sorry I didn't make that clear.

[Javaman]

8. I hope he threw up on himself.

that would complete the picture.

Followed by a jag of self loathing and crying.