According to Norm Clarke’s Vegas Confidential, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton et.al ate a little higher off the hog than her rival Barack Obama during their week of campaigning in Las Vegas.

Both camps called N9NE Steakhouse at the Palms.

According to Clarke, Chef Barry Dakake and Jenna Morton, wife of N9NE co-owner Michael Morton, delivered around $200 worth of food, including two Kobe burgers, two organic chicken sandwiches and one order of Dover sole, to Obama.

The Clintons’ tab came to $1,530 and included entrees of nine steaks, three chicken, three salmon and three Maine scallops, two lobster pappardelle, salads, sashimi, rock shrimp, and various side dishes.

Here is another case of the media taking the total number and making a big deal out of it, but failing to the divide the number by the number of meals or persons eating them.  By my count the tab only comes to $76 per person for what appears to be 20 meals, including tip. 

Not a big deal when you consider the Clintons spent the week in a Bellagio villa, and of course had other big orders from N9NE.

I just hope it was Bill that had the salmon following his by-pass surgery.