President Obama will drink Budweiser, Sgt. Crowley will drink Blue Moon, and Prof. Gates will drink Red Stripe or Beck’s. Secretary Gibbs had to defend the choices to pool reporters.
“What’s wrong with Budweiser?” Gibbs asked when a reporter questioned the President’s beer choice.
Sec. Gibbs also said the event will be outdoors, at the picnic table thats right next to the swing set on the South Lawn.
The White House recently announced that Budweiser is the Presidents favorite beer.
First of all, let me point out that I couldn’t care less about beer. I’m 10 years sober, and I rolled with Tanqueray&Chronic anyway. But no one’s favorite beer is Budweiser. Even when the Beastie Boys used to rap about it, they drank it because they had no money, not because it was their favorite. Now I know from John Kerry‘s green tea adventure of ’04 and Obama’s own arugula cock-up that it’s not like he could throw out a French or Chinese brand without having to deal with the ensuing shitstorm. But come on, this is all pretty silly when you consider that Busweiser is now owned by InBev, of…Belgium. I’m sure Iron City could use the sales boost that would come from a Presidential endorsement, and it would probably take Pennsylvania off the table in 2012.
Aside from Obama’s own choice, it strikes me as weird that this so-called “Beer Summit” has each of the participants drinking a different brand of beer. If the goal is to make nice and sing kumbaya (Obama’s favorite pastime), shouldn’t they just take turns doing kegstands?
(For the record, I think the idea of the Beer Summit is a very good one, and probably kept the situation from turning into a true circus.)