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Obama more bartender than mediator at beer summit

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Obama more bartender than mediator at beer summit

Obama more bartender than mediator at beer summit | Reuters


"I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart," Obama said in a statement after the meeting in a garden outside the Oval Office.

Crowley said it was a private and frank discussion, adding he and Gates have different perspectives.

"I think what you had today was two gentlemen who agreed to disagree on a particular issue," Crowley told reporters. "I don't think that we spent too much time dwelling on the past. We spent a lot of time discussing the future."

Asked about the president's contribution to the meeting, Crowley said: "He provided the beer."



So, In conclusion, Gates is still a race baiter, Obama got his photo op, and the media can spin this as a great success.... Reading between the lines though, nothing came out of this meeting, It sounded like it was tense, and that stubborn heads prevailed...


Yes mr. president, We learned a lot from this. :roll:
 
So, In conclusion, Gates is still a race baiter, Obama got his photo op, and the media can spin this as a great success.... Reading between the lines though, nothing came out of this meeting, It sounded like it was tense, and that stubborn heads prevailed...


Yes mr. president, We learned a lot from this. :roll:
Dragging the two down to the White House back lawn for a beer "after work" was never going to be more than contrived political theater. If not for Dear Leader's meddling, Gates and Crowley would never hoist a glass to each other's families--and if there was a "teachable moment" in this farce, that was it: that Gates and Crowley are, in their normal environs, as socially distant from each other as America is from China.
 
Honestly, I think it's stupid that the President of the United States has spent so much time on this. I also think if he's going to dip his wick into local matters, he should have had the decency to include the witness who was simply looking out for her neighbor and is now villified as a racist even though she never identified the men as black.

Then Obama should invite *me* over to the WH for a beer because I just wrote a very long sentence. Obviously he doesn't have more important things to do.
 
Honestly, I think it's stupid that the President of the United States has spent so much time on this. I also think if he's going to dip his wick into local matters, he should have had the decency to include the witness who was simply looking out for her neighbor and is now villified as a racist even though she never identified the men as black.

Then Obama should invite *me* over to the WH for a beer because I just wrote a very long sentence. Obviously he doesn't have more important things to do.
If he really wanted to be a healer and a peacemaker, he'd have a weekly barbecue on the White House back lawn.
 
If he really wanted to be a healer and a peacemaker, he'd have a weekly barbecue on the White House back lawn.

Just think of all the revenue he could collect if he invites enough rich people. :monkey
 
Just think of all the revenue he could collect if he invites enough rich people. :monkey
He could invite the Good Reverend to bring his skillz with the grillz....;)
 
He could invite the Good Reverend to bring his skillz with the grillz....;)

That could be an issue for the Good Reverend as he owns his own company. Obama would want him to rent space and pay for any electricity he uses. Then there would be all the permits ... OY. :doh
 
That could be an issue for the Good Reverend as he owns his own company. Obama would want him to rent space and pay for any electricity he uses. Then there would be all the permits ... OY. :doh



True but I cook on charcoal shorty, no electricity needed. Though I'd have to buy a **** load of carbon credits.
 
Gates is still a race baiter

I don't see how Gates is a "race baiter" at all. Even if you judged his entire person from this event, it's quite clear that at worst he's simply guilty of being unreasonably upset.

Obama got his photo op

What did you expect? He's the president.

and the media can spin this as a great success.... Reading between the lines though, nothing came out of this meeting

What did you want to come out of the meeting? I think the fact that Crowley said "I don't think that we spent too much time dwelling on the past. We spent a lot of time discussing the future" shows that this meeting wasn't really going to focus on the issues surrounding the arrest anyways.
 
So, In conclusion, Gates is still a race baiter, Obama got his photo op, and the media can spin this as a great success.... Reading between the lines though, nothing came out of this meeting, It sounded like it was tense, and that stubborn heads prevailed...


Yes mr. president, We learned a lot from this. :roll:

LOL, you got a snot-nosed black, liberal Ivy League professor and a white cop.

Did anybody think this was gonna be a picnic at the beach?

I still cant believe the cop went to this thing after being called stupid by the President. Of course the President took the back seat, b/c he couldnt afford saying another stupid ass thing again. And Lord knows, he comes down on the side of Gates more then 99% of the time.

What a joke. Nothing Presidential about this entire thing. Just makes him look like a laughing stock even more. A beer summit?.....lol. Not even Joe Biden could make up such a comic relief event.:rofl:rofl:doh Its equivalent to the Mike Dukakis in a tank bit back in the 80's. Only, even more embarassing.
 
True but I cook on charcoal shorty, no electricity needed. Though I'd have to buy a **** load of carbon credits.

You're screwed. You may want to get arrested and make a big stink about it. Then you'll be entitled to at least a free beer. You could pass along stories to your son about the time you took a beer piss and let some beer farts out at the WH.
 
LOL, you got a snot-nosed black, liberal Ivy League professor and a white cop.

Did anybody think this was gonna be a picnic at the beach?

I still cant believe the cop went to this thing after being called stupid by the President. Of course the President took the back seat, b/c he couldnt afford saying another stupid ass thing again. And Lord knows, he comes down on the side of Gates more then 99% of the time.

What a joke. Nothing Presidential about this entire thing. Just makes him look like a laughing stock even more. A beer summit?.....lol. Not even Joe Biden could make up such a comic relief event.:rofl:rofl:doh Its equivalent to the Mike Dukakis in a tank bit back in the 80's. Only, even more embarassing.
The photo op with Gates and Crowley in suits and Dear Leader and the Mouth that Roared in shirtsleeves said everything that needed to be said about this "teachable moment"--namely that it was straight out of central casting.
 
The posts in this non-breaking news thread are hilarious! :rofl
 
The photo op with Gates and Crowley in suits and Dear Leader and the Mouth that Roared in shirtsleeves said everything that needed to be said about this "teachable moment"--namely that it was straight out of central casting.

Biden missed out on a perfect oppurtunity to trip and fall over a hedge grove. That would have taken the attention off of Obama in this whole thing for a day or two.

He could have pulled a Hot Shots! line and blamed it on the crabs, they work in pairs.:rofl
 
I though it was completely transparent that Obama had a Bud Lite.

I mean seriously, no one at his station in life would actually drink that, it was obviously a media ploy.

And a really stupid one, I don't think anyone should have to apologize for decent taste. Although, Fox News did give him **** for wanting dijon :roll:.

What he should have done was had some Chicago micro, that way he could give a shout out to his home towns local beer scene.

Alternatively he could have served Boston beer (Harpoons probably) because both the guys live there.
 
I think Obama should have been a mediator had Gates and Crowley been at odds. In other words, if Gates and Crowley were still fighting about the issue, then Obama should have stepped in. I didn't see any fighting, and based on Crowley's words, the two men each have their own perspective of situation and they are moving on.

Can someone tell me what Obama needed to mediate? :roll:
 
I though it was completely transparent that Obama had a Bud Lite.

I mean seriously, no one at his station in life would actually drink that, it was obviously a media ploy.

And a really stupid one, I don't think anyone should have to apologize for decent taste. Although, Fox News did give him **** for wanting dijon :roll:.

What he should have done was had some Chicago micro, that way he could give a shout out to his home towns local beer scene.

Alternatively he could have served Boston beer (Harpoons probably) because both the guys live there.

Nah, you got it all wrong chief!:mrgreen:

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[Anybody pick up the "works every time" bit at the end? Reminds me of Anchorman and Sex Panther.]
 
I mean seriously, no one at his station in life would actually drink that, it was obviously a media ploy.

Its actually possible that he really likes it. I have seen a lot of rich people who could afford anything they want prefer cheap booze. Still, it does piss me off when politicians try and connect with the people by "drinking what they drink". Fact is, a lot of poor people drink what they drink because they can't afford better. God knows that I never drank Popov by choice, and if I made president I would never drink it again.
 
Its actually possible that he really likes it. I have seen a lot of rich people who could afford anything they want prefer cheap booze. Still, it does piss me off when politicians try and connect with the people by "drinking what they drink". Fact is, a lot of poor people drink what they drink because they can't afford better. God knows that I never drank Popov by choice, and if I made president I would never drink it again.

I highly doubt he likes Bud Lite. He just seems to me like the kind of guy who would support his local micros.
 
I still cant believe the cop went to this thing after being called stupid by the President. Of course the President took the back seat, b/c he couldnt afford saying another stupid ass thing again. And Lord knows, he comes down on the side of Gates more then 99% of the time.

What a joke. Nothing Presidential about this entire thing. Just makes him look like a laughing stock even more. A beer summit?.....lol. Not even Joe Biden could make up such a comic relief event.:rofl:rofl:doh Its equivalent to the Mike Dukakis in a tank bit back in the 80's. Only, even more embarassing.

Of course, there is nothing the president could do that you would respect, but you should know that this "beer at the White House" idea was suggested by Crowley.
Just wondering, are there foreign leaders you respect more than Obama? Putin perhaps, Chavez, Castro? I'm sure you aren't as hard as them as you are on Obama, at least I haven't seen it.
 
Of course, there is nothing the president could do that you would respect, but you should know that this "beer at the White House" idea was suggested by Crowley.


This is factually incorrect. I think you already knew this, but instead preferred to post prevarications....

Just wondering, are there foreign leaders you respect more than Obama? Putin perhaps, Chavez, Castro? I'm sure you aren't as hard as them as you are on Obama, at least I haven't seen it.


Aren't those all Obama's friends? :lol:
 
If he really wanted to be a healer and a peacemaker, he'd have a weekly barbecue on the White House back lawn.


Yeah but what would he serve?

If he served hamburgers and hot dogs you would label him "cheap"


If he served steak.....you would call him "Elitist"

If he served pork ribs...he'd be "Anti-beef farmer"....

;)
 
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