The beer summit is on tap for tonight, and American beer companies are hopping mad. Obama has ordered up brews that fit the profiles of his guests: a color-sensitive selection of Red Stripe and Blue Moon. Obama himself intends to drink Bud Light. Yuck! One more thing they apparently don’t teach you at Harvard.
American companies wonder how the gears of domestic diplomacy can be lubricated with foreign brews. (Anheuser-Busch is now a Belgium enterprise, which makes we wonder if Obama drank Bud Light before it became European.) At any rate, beer apparently makes Obama’s list of things unexceptional in America. In attempting to quell one dispute, Obama is fomenting bitter resentment in other quarters.
So I’m betting that Sgt. Crowley gets the best of this teaching moment. After all, he will be up against a literary scholar who testified as an expert witness that 2 Live Crew lyrics were akin to Shakespeare’s “My love is like a red, red rose” (without questioning his own expertise long enough to discover that Shakespeare never wrote that line) and a president so enamored with things European that he will uncritically buy the worst they have to offer.
