Presidential Race: Bitter Beer
April 14th, 2008
I don’t really watch news, but somehow I catch a lot of it second hand. I may listen to a news station during Opie and Anthony commercials, or read some headlines on the web. Thanks to the way they repeat the “good stuff”, I consider myself informed and up-to-date. Here is what happened in the past few days. Oddly, it’s mostly beer-related.
- Obama said some people were bitter.
- Hillary and McCain jumped all over that.
- Hillary got booed for complaining about Obama’s negative attacks.
- Hillary had a beer. And a shot. Obama mentioned the photo-op in a speech.
- Oops…turns out Obama had a beer in some bar several months ago.
- Some Republican Congressman called Obama “boy”, and then apologized. (was he drunk?)
I think that about covers it. I’m ready for my own beer.
I didn’t really intend this to be a “beer themed” post. It started as a criticism of the shallowness and stupidity of the media’s coverage of election politics. After making the list of events from the past week, however, the whole beer theme just jumped out at me.