Black, White and Blue Moon. Beer Summit for Gates and Boston Cop
The “Beer Summit” is the buzz word on Capitol Hill and the media this week.
Finally Washington is talking my language. If only the world’s problems could be solved with this delectable liquid substance. Maybe we ask the psychos in the middle East and Korea to swing by for a beer and hash things out. You think Ahmadinejihadistsonofgoat of Iran swills beer? I hate him.
Come to think of it: wouldn’t it be cool to have a Beer Summit with all the past past 30 years girlfriends ( or gal buddies) I’ve ever had the pleasure of pleasurable company with.
You know who you are: Venessa S, ………Wendy G………Katie R.. Omayra Fuentes …….( Where are You?) ……..Ruth M…….. …Let’s all have a beer at the same time and remember the fun times and forget about all that other stuff I stink at. Maybe we could do something like Jack Nicholson did in the Witches of Eastwick……………………..mmmmmmmmmm .maybe not…Joel Osteen would not be amused..
Fred G. Sanford put it best:
“Beer when it’s Near, Wine when there’s time.”
The Merchant Maven
A “beer summit” to discuss racial differences is what US President Barrack Obama was hosting at the White House Thursday evening.
“beer summit” to discuss racial differences is what US President Barrack Obama was hosting at the White House Thursday evening.
America’s first black president was hosting two men at the centre of a racial row to discuss their differences over three different beer brands.
The session that has come to be known as “bar-stool diplomacy” was being held at a picnic table near the president’s Oval Office in the white House.
According to the White House press secretary, Mr Robert Gibbs, President Obama had selected a beer called Bud Light. His guests Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, police sergeant James Crowley chose to take Red Stripe and Blue Moon respectively.
Speculation has been rife since Mr Obama made the invite last week on what brands would be served at the meeting.
Prof Gates, who is black, was taken into custody by Mr Crowley, who is white, after the officer accused him of disorderly conduct for protesting over the policeman’s actions. The charges were later dropped.
President Obama convened the beer summit after calling both men last week in an attempt to defuse the political fallout from his comment at a news conference that police had “acted stupidly” in arresting Mr Gates at his home after responding to a call from a passer-by about a possible break-in.
The president was to welcome Mr Gates and Mr Crowley for the 6pm (2 am EA time) beers at the White House, hoping to turn the page on a controversy over race that erupted during a July 16 incident at the scholar’s home.
The two men earlier in the day indicated that they were looking forward to the so-called “beer summit” and both would be bringing family members along.
The president’s comments – even to his own admission – seemed to overshadow debate on his health policy. The US president later backed off the “acted stupidly” comment and called the meeting in the hope that the incident could provide a “teachable moment” on race relations.
I don’t know
“Over the last two days as we’ve discussed this issue, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but nobody has been paying much attention to health care,” President Obama lamented to reporters last Friday.
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