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Politicians Eating Ice Cream (Photos)

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Ice ice baby! Vice President Joe Biden enjoys an ice cream cone in Portland after a campaign rally for Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley. Biden was in town campaigning for Merkley who is being challenged by Republican Monica Wehby in the 2014 midterm election.

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Then just a Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama eats an ice cream cone while preparing to board his bus at the Windmill Ice Cream Shop in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania back in 2008.

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That same year another Democratic presidential hopeful, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, and campaign staffer Jamie Smith enojyed ice cream during a visit to a farmers market on primary day in Charleston, West Virginia. 

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Former president George W. Bush stops at an ice cream store prior to delivering a speech at the Ottawa County Fairgrounds in Holland, Michigan back in 2004.

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President Bill Clinton wipes ice cream off his nose outside the Creamery store as his aides surround him during a stop on the Campus of Penn State University July 10, in 2000. 

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US Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Al Gore eats ice cream in the city of Cincinnati with Ohio State Representative Mark Mallory and Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken at Aslamesis Brother Ice Cream store in June of 2000. 

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Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi eating an ice-cream (or is it gelato?!) in 2006 in Naples, Italy. 

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British opposition Conservative party leader David Cameron eats an ice cream during an election campaign walkabout in Torquay, south-west England on April 21, 2010. 

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These two can't get enough! US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama and his vice presidential running mate Senator Joe Biden buy ice cream during a campaign stop at Windmill Ice Cream Shop in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, in 2008. 

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Cuban president Fidel Castro eats an ice cream cone as he rides the Bronx Zoo train in New York City, 1959.

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