The most-anticipated beer of the Obama Administration is set to take place on Thursday at 6 p.m., a White House official told the Herald. On Friday, President Obama announced the peace draft to be shared with Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to discuss the scholar’s controversial arrest on July 16.
Hey, what problems can't be resolved over a beer...unless you're in a Tennessee bar and the guy you are trying to reconcile with is carrying a concealed .45.
So, what's on the menu?
The beer selection for Thursday’s meeting is not known. Crowley prefers Blue Moon beer. Gates likes Beck’s and Red Stripe. The president drinks Budweiser.
The most powerful man in the world likes to drink...wait for it...Budweiser!?!
Well, at least he didn't say Pabst. The dude could have any beer he wants and he's going with the classic Amerikan swill. Damn, if I was president I'd turn the Lincoln Bedroom into a tap room featuring the finest West Coast IPAs, Belgian ales and German Oktoberfest brew imaginable.
I'm not the only one who thinks Obama should be more liberal and adventurous in the beer department. Here's a completely unscientific poll by NPR listeners. The verdict is near unanimous.
Budweiser is the kind of beer you claim to drink when you have to come up with something to throw people off the trail of your secret Islam-ism.
as far as i'm concerned Belgium has established beer superiority over the rest of the world and is the last true superpower.
Posted by: Montag | July 28, 2009 at 07:10 AM
Isn't Bud technically a Belgian beer now?
And may I add that I am sick to death of Gatesgate.
Posted by: blogenfreude | July 28, 2009 at 07:47 AM
Montag: If you ever visit the left coast, there are some amazing breweries in Northern and Southern California that will give the Belgians a run for their money.
blogenfreude: Yep, that means the president is actually drinking a - gasp - foreign beer!
Posted by: Agi | July 28, 2009 at 08:11 AM
Bud is a very astute political choice to stop the wingnuts complaining about you being stuck up.
Additionally, it is the sort of beer you can drink without having to worry about going back to work afterwards as it has the strength of Gnat's effluent.
Lastly, You wont hear John McCain complaining about it, so there is another classic, Obama , across-the-aisle move.
Honestly. Being president does not require good taste. Look at anything W chose, or Barbara Bush or even Monica Lewinsky ! Good taste is not part of the job description.
Posted by: roger | July 28, 2009 at 09:22 AM
Hussein is only telling us There Will Be Bud. I bet it's green tea, the gay pinko Muslim.
Posted by: Randal Graves | July 28, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Barack was drinking Bud during the campaign, too, but i voted for him anyway.
Posted by: Lancelot Link | August 02, 2009 at 01:53 PM