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Article: Lessons learned from Obama's 'brew-ha-ha'
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- August 4, 2009
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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 ...