Obama's Beer Summit
Aug. 1st, 2009 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechA friend wrote about Obama's Beer Summit and that some politicians are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
The Beer Summit may have been the coolest moment in US Presidential history. There are a lot of things that Obama has been doing that drives me crazy*, but sitting down with those two guys and having a talk over beer was just pure innocent, getting-to-the-heart-of-the-matter, genius. So casual and so disarming a way to defuse a tense situation that threatened to blow up (fueled by all parties). The president invites you to have a beer with him. What can you do?
Now a situation that began badly could turn into a catalyst for social improvement, with the two parties working together rather than work as adverseries.
I'm surprised that there was not more controversy over the beer served ...beer politics (*sigh*).
A beer with the President-- how cool is that!
*Mostly involving spending inconceivable amounts of $$$, and having those few able to survive financially pay that bill.
The Beer Summit may have been the coolest moment in US Presidential history. There are a lot of things that Obama has been doing that drives me crazy*, but sitting down with those two guys and having a talk over beer was just pure innocent, getting-to-the-heart-of-the-matter, genius. So casual and so disarming a way to defuse a tense situation that threatened to blow up (fueled by all parties). The president invites you to have a beer with him. What can you do?
Now a situation that began badly could turn into a catalyst for social improvement, with the two parties working together rather than work as adverseries.
I'm surprised that there was not more controversy over the beer served ...beer politics (*sigh*).
A beer with the President-- how cool is that!
*Mostly involving spending inconceivable amounts of $$$, and having those few able to survive financially pay that bill.
