Posted on 06/02/2006 2:46:55 AM PDT by NYpeanut
Hillary and Bill Clinton took a break from the South Beach Diet on Wednesday to do lunch Buffalo-style: spaghetti Parmesan and chicken cacciatore at Chef's on Seneca Street.
"I figure once a year, it's OK," said former president and quadruple by-pass survivor Bill Clinton, as he chomped down on a cannoli while simultaneously shaking hands with adoring fans.
The Clintons were at Chef's with about 40 convention organizers and volunteers to wrap up their appearances in Buffalo for the state Democratic convention.
"That was amazing!" gushed hostess Kim Ehnes, 19, of East Aurora, moments after the powerhouse political duo was swept away by Secret Service agents.
"We thought that the Sabres coming in here was a big deal, but that blew that away," she said.
"It's an awesome feeling to meet a president of the United States of America," said Samuel A. Herbert, a convention volunteer who showed up outside Chef's to take a photograph of himself with the Clintons with his cell phone camera.
"I will treasure this picture," Herbert said.
The Clintons made the rounds in the restaurant, shaking hands with workers and patrons and delighting them with their down-to-earth demeanor, before sitting down to mounds of Italian-American dishes.
"The president said we just put 10 pounds on him and took 10 years off his life because of all the cheese," said waitress Anne Johnston, 21.
Customers, too, were delighted by the surprise visit.
Barb and Ted Gorney, a retired couple from West Seneca, were in downtown Buffalo running errands and just happened to decide to come to Chef's Wednesday afternoon.
"I thought I'd surprise her and take her to lunch at Chef's," Ted Gorney said.
They were worried at first when they saw the long line of black Secret Service SUVs in front of the restaurant, but were thrilled when they saw who the special guests were. The Gorneys made sure to get a table near the aisle so they'd get a chance to shake hands with the Clintons.
"If it was [President] Bush, I wouldn't even speak to them," Barb Gorney joked.
Andrea Gallo, 59, a retired Buffalo Envelope worker and regular at Chef's, said she strode up to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton with a pointed message: "I told her I want her to run for president and that she'd be just as good as her husband."
Sen. Clinton replied: "I need your help in November, first."
To which Gallo replied: "You got it."
For the record: The restaurant picked up the tab but waitress Johnston said the party "left a nice tip."
OK .. all who believe this BS raise your hands
From the article:
For the record: The restaurant picked up the tab but waitress Johnston said the party "left a nice tip."
Notice how desperately they're trying to give her a personality?
The maid. Now this. Next she'll be teaching Vacation Bible School.
Better title: Chef's Diet Staff Blows Clintons
There's more puff in this piece than the pastry, along with the obligatory MSM swipe at Pres. Bush.
Exactly. See also: New York's state and local tax burden tops the nation (Connecticut #2, Alabama, lowest tax burden)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641988/posts
Too many in NY state are of the blue collar mindset that the DNC stands up for the little guy. They just keep on electing dems and the occasional RINO who continue to drive NY into oblivion.
He looks pretty bad.Maybe a few nights out drinking with Teddy would be enough to finish him off?
Maki Becker...Clinton's fluffer.
15% of what they paid for the meal.
I remember seeing former President Harry Truman mowing his own lawn in Independence, MO...
He didn't have a secret service detail, at least not one that I recall. And when he left Washington, he came home. It seems to me that Truman was a now extinct form of Dem.
Mark
I live approx 20 miles SE of Buffalo and this fawning piece of bullshit coming from, what else, the Buffalo News, is no surprise. New York State and Buffalo in particular are stuck in the mid-1960s. It worships at the altar of big government, trial lawyers, and public-sector unions. These same people, after voting leftward for all these decades, can't figure out why the area is an economic backwater. The level of ignorance in the Buffalo area is astounding but they seem to like it that way.
I thought surely that Monica was going fit into this story with keywords 'Clinton', 'blow', and 'delight' included in the headline.....
It is so amazing how people gush over these educated criminal hicks. Where's the barf alert? I need more coffee.
clintoons blow.... enuff said.
Did anybody count the silverware?
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