Obama, Gates, Crowley, Biden: Beers and talk

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**ShumaGorath**

This is a rather novel and interesting approach at solving unimportant but highly hyped and decisive issues such as the Skip Gates arrest. So what beer do you think the president stocks in his home? Look at that presidential lean. None better.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8176925.stm

Obama hosts race row beer reunion

Henry Louis Gates and Jim Crowley drank beer in the Rose Garden
Black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates has met the white officer who arrested him in his own home over a beer at the White House.
President Barack Obama organised the meeting between Mr Gates and Sgt Jim Crowley in a bid to defuse the race row triggered by the arrest.
As promised, the three men and Vice-President Joe Biden enjoyed a beer while they discussed the situation.
Mr Obama drew criticism when he described the arrest as "stupid".
The president said Thursday's meeting produced a "friendly, thoughtful conversation".
"I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart," he said in a statement.
"I am confident that has happened here tonight, and I am hopeful that all of us are able to draw this positive lesson from this episode."
Sgt Crowley said no one had apologised, but the meeting had been "cordial".
"What you had today was two gentlemen agree to disagree on a particular issue," he said.
'Personal interaction'
Prof Gates was apprehended at his own home after a witness saw him apparently trying to force his way in.
He was held for disorderly conduct after allegedly accusing the arresting officer, Sgt Crowley, of racism.
The arrest sparked a row about the treatment of ethnic minorities by police in America.
Statistics suggest that African-Americans and other minorities are more likely to be stopped by the police than white Americans.
Mr Obama commented on the incident at a televised press conference last week, saying the police had behaved "stupidly".
He was subsequently criticised for expressing opinions without being in full possession of the facts.
Ahead of the meeting in the White House Rose Garden, Mr Obama dismissed the media's naming of the meeting as a "beer summit", saying it was just "three folks having a drink at the end of the day".
He added: "It's an attempt to have some personal interaction when an issue has become so hyped and so symbolic that you lose sight of just the fact that these are people involved, including myself, all of whom are imperfect."

**Zip Napalm**

What!?! No pretzels or hot wings?
Total depravity.

**Wrexasaur**

Yep...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadless

**Zip Napalm**

HA!

**avantgarde**

Wtf Biden, Buckler, really? If that beer was any fruitier it would make a nice after dinner drink.

**sebster**

Obama drank Bud Light. That really should be an impeachable offence.

**greenskin lynn**

sebster wrote:Obama drank Bud Light. That really should be an impeachable offence.

ah, but drinking crappy beer will help the common man connect to him, or something, i guess

also, at least he's not drinking steel reserve, so bad i've known alcoholics to turn it down

**Wrexasaur**

I have memories tacked onto this bugger. Not a drink of natural taste that accommodates me, I just think of Bender from Futurama (trust me bender is a shmuck and he will be forgotten) every time the metallic taste kicks me in the balls.

You know what though, to be fair to bender he did meet a real big G, and I seriously clap paws for that feat. Good job Bender, you are closer to the truth than most would like to admit; psuedo-big-G and all we will target and recreate your essence in it's purest form, over and out.

**Cheese Elemental**

sebster wrote:Obama drank Bud Light. That really should be an impeachable offence.

What? He always seemed like a gin and tonic man to me.

**George Spiggott**

Bah! I thought he was meeting Aleister Crowley and Bill Gates. This story is much less interesting than I thought it was.

**LuciusAR**

Pah, if he where a real man he would be drinking this cheeky little number!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8170813.stm

**whitedragon**

sebster wrote:Obama drank Bud Light. That really should be an impeachable offence.

The majority of Americans drink more Bud Light then...well anything really.

**Frazzled**

Meh Guiness, breakfast of champions for 250 years.

**Fallen668**

LuciusAR wrote:Pah, if he where a real man he would be drinking this cheeky little number!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8170813.stm

Wait... what are they really complaining about here... It is 10 pounds a bottle. It is not like you can get a lot of it cheap and there are probably cheaper ways to get way more drunk. That is a beer snob beer. Something I would really like to try even if it doesn't conform to the standards of only 4 ingredients. Now I want a beer.

**malfred**

Prof. Gates: I guess the neighbors might have mistook me for a burglar.

Officer Crowley: Perhaps I may have been a bit aggressive about policy.

President Obama: I think I could have been less harsh in front of the camera.

Vice-President Biden: Gentlemen, I do believe I'm drank. How about them Ukrainian wimminz!

**Kilkrazy**

Fallen668 wrote:
LuciusAR wrote:Pah, if he where a real man he would be drinking this cheeky little number!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8170813.stm

Wait... what are they really complaining about here... It is 10 pounds a bottle. It is not like you can get a lot of it cheap and there are probably cheaper ways to get way more drunk. That is a beer snob beer. Something I would really like to try even if it doesn't conform to the standards of only 4 ingredients. Now I want a beer.

Well indeed. It's the real political correctness gone mad.

No self-respecting Scottish **ss-head will spend £10 on a limited edition beer. Buckies is their tipple of choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine

Either that or Wifebeater (AKA Stella Artois.)

**sebster**

whitedragon wrote:
sebster wrote:Obama drank Bud Light. That really should be an impeachable offence.

The majority of Americans drink more Bud Light then...well anything really.

Impeach them all.

**Frazzled**

sebster wrote:
whitedragon wrote:
sebster wrote:Obama drank Bud Light. That really should be an impeachable offence.

The majority of Americans drink more Bud Light then...well anything really.

Impeach them all.

We'll be your Huckleberry Aussie boy.

**Jin**

You can only imagine the media gak-storm that would've erupted had Obama not chosen an American (yeah, I know Budweiser is technically not American-owned anymore) beer.

Definitely should've ordered up a 40, though

:

Fun fact: downing one of those bad-boys within a 10-15 minute period will hit you like a ton of bricks about 10 minutes after the fact.

**Fallen668**

Kilkrazy wrote:
Fallen668 wrote:
LuciusAR wrote:Pah, if he where a real man he would be drinking this cheeky little number!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8170813.stm

Wait... what are they really complaining about here... It is 10 pounds a bottle. It is not like you can get a lot of it cheap and there are probably cheaper ways to get way more drunk. That is a beer snob beer. Something I would really like to try even if it doesn't conform to the standards of only 4 ingredients. Now I want a beer.

Well indeed. It's the real political correctness gone mad.

No self-respecting Scottish **ss-head will spend £10 on a limited edition beer. Buckies is their tipple of choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine

Either that or Wifebeater (AKA Stella Artois.)

My opinion of Stella is very low. While it was somewhat crisp, it was also very mediocre. I consider it a major miss on one of my all night paint and beer sessions.

**ShumaGorath**

Frazzled wrote:Meh Guiness, breakfast of champions for 250 years.

Good man. I like a good Killians too when I don't feel like having to chew my beer.

**halonachos**

If he was a real american he would've gone with a yuengling.

**dietrich**

He's from Hawaii and Illiinois. They don't have Yuengling that far west.

**Ahtman**

dietrich wrote:He's from Hawaii and Illiinois. They don't have Yuengling that far west.

I'm guessing so. I'm in Indiana and yesterday was the first I'd heard of Yuengling. Of course I rarely ever drink beer. More of a Wine and Whiskey guy, never got into beer. Considering my standard choices growing up would have been domestic American beer can you really blame me though? American beer is just, well, it is just awful.

**youngblood**

Interesting that not a single American owned beer company is represented.

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Ahtman wrote:American macros are just, well, they are just awful.

America has many amazing breweries. Indiana has one of the top 25 breweries (Three Floyd's Brewing in Munster, Indiana).

**dietrich**

I live in Ohio and can't buy Yuengling. Their distribution is along the eastern seaboard - Florida, NC, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. I'm probably missing a state or two, but those are the ones that I know for certain. But, I know they don't sell west of the Ohio-PA line.

**Frazzled**

Yes you haven't lived until you've had beer made partially from cactus. Way cool.

**djphranq**

IN B 4 Wag the dog