Article: Lessons learned from Obama's 'brew-ha-ha'

President Barack Obama's got his hands full with health care, two wars and the economy. But he put all that aside to have a beer in the Rose Garden with a friend and the cop who arrested the friend in the friend's own home.

Out of earshot, journalists focused on Job One: what to call this historic media event.

ABC News offered "the Audacity of Hops." Audacious, indeed.

The Washington Post reported, "Yes, Three Cans," "Menage a Stella Artois," "Beerastroika" and "A Thousand Points of Bud Light."

My own Facebook friends offered "Dreams of My Lager," "fermented forum," draft diplomacy," "Yes We Can -- or Bottle," "brew-ha-ha" and "the audacity of cops."

By then my online pals groaned, "I ...

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