Posted on 07/30/2009 11:59:34 AM PDT by flowerplough
Sometimes a beer is just a beerexcept in politics, where beer may signify any old thing we want it to. It is the most abused of all the spirits. Since the early '70s, the typical voter has often been referred to as Joe Six-Pack. Beer made the cover of Newsweek magazine as part of a discussion of whether candidate Barack Obama (represented by a leaf of arugula) could connect with the common man (represented by a frosty mug). This was an extension of the political sorting technique of describing Democratic candidates who appeal to upscale voters as "wine track" candidates and those who appeal to blue-collar voters as being on the "beer track." George W. Bush, according to some, was a more appealing candidate than Al Gore because a poll showed that he was the candidate people would prefer to have a beer with.
So what are we to make of President Obama's invitation to professor Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley for a beer Thursday night at the White House? First, like the whole Gates-Crowley affair, this beer detente is another infusion in this summer's stimulus act for columnists (it's a bipartisan bill; Sarah Palin has done her part as well). The night is also a boon to headline writers: The Prof and Cop Hops Stop! Hot Heads Share a Frosty! Prof, Cop Quaff With Barack After Squawk.
But is there any meaning to squeeze out of the choice of beverage? Serving sherry would not have been the right call. The president has already been accused of siding with the professor. So did he choose beer to compensate? During the campaign, when Obama was seen as the "wine track" candidate, he worked to correct that impression by having a beer in front of the cameras.
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Keep the nuclear football away from this idiot!
If he wants to serve a truly American drink he should provide a selection of small batch Bourbons.
“There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary numbers and those who don’t”.
I couldn’t imagine sitting and drinking a beer with this doofus.
He would be the most boring and mind-numbing drinking partner...rambling on and on about how cool communism is and thinking he knows everything about anything.
Oh wait, it would be like drinking with college students.
“...Bammy pulling a face as he sips brew.”
I’d pull a face too if I drank Bud Light.
Providing Red Stripe is racist
Obama looks more a like an Old English Malt Liquor drinker rather than a wine drinker.
Colt 45?
Mad Dog 20 20?
A republican making such a racist blunder would never be allowed by the media to convert the story to beer conversation and stories about a beer summit or anything else so warm and friendly sounding.
"It's good to be the King."
--Mel Brooks
Night Train: Bum Wine
Don't let the 0.5% less alcohol by volume fool you, the Night Train is all business when it pulls into the station. All aboard to nowhere - woo wooo! The night train runs only one route: sober to stupid with no roundtrip tickets available, and a strong liklihood of a train wreck along the way. This trainyard favorite is vinted and bottled by E&J Gallo Winery, in in Modesto, CA. Don't bother looking on their web page, because they dare not mention it there. As a clever disguise, the label says that it is made by "Night Train Limited." Some suspect that Night Train is really just Thunderbird with some Kool-Aid-like substance added to try to mask the Clorox flavor. Some of our researchers indicated that it gave them a NyQuil-like drowsiness, and perhaps this is why they put "night" in the name. The picture (above right) shows that the subject that drank Night Train is down for the count, while the Cisco guzzling subject is ready to rock. Guaranteed to tickle your innards.
Hillary does know how to down a shot and a beer.
She looks practiced.
Obama is serving beer because the cop mentioned he’d like to sit down with the President over a cold one. This wasn’t O’s idea.
Night Train was Jake Blues’ bottle of choice in the movie The Blues Brothers.
Well, imagine the brouhaha if the cop said he preferred white
Yeah, that Belgian beer is nasty. He should try a real American beer like Sam Adams or Yuengling.
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