Being Canadian, it really isn't my place to comment upon the politics of my southern cousins but this little tidbit is a bit shocking, is it not?
"You know I got a beer down there. What do they call it.. a Yuengling?" Obama said to a local man.But apparently not any beer that isn't, you know, cheap ass or is a designer brew. Is this not a refutation of all that craft beer fans have been advocating for over the last thirty years or so? Or is it a pandering for one voter group (PA bowlers who like Yuengling) that will open up a new opportunity for cross-brew vote pandering in the near future when he realizes the need to speak to the interests of craft beer dorks? That is the right word now, right?"Yuengling! Like you didn’t know," the guy joked back.
"Trying a Pennsylvania beer, that’s what I’m talking about. Is it expensive though?" Obama asked. "Wanna make sure it’s not some designer beer or something."
He shook a few hands and took a few more sips of beer before he walked out, the headline writing itself: "The Candidate You Can Drink a Beer With…"
Comments
Travis - March 31, 2008 1:48 PM
He really wanted to ask for an Appletini or a mic ultra. McCain's wife is an AB aire to a fortune so I don't think any of the candidates hold a lot of "Beer Cred". One positive thing I can say about AB - Availability of gluten free beer and organic beer for people who cannot get good beer readily available.
I know someone that just found out they have to go gluten free and they don't have a decent place to get beer. Because AB is carrying a gluten free beer, anyone that gets AB products can get GF beer.
It's a shame to drink bad beer, but not being able to drink beer at all, that's just sad.
McChowder - March 31, 2008 2:29 PM
Obama may have been saying this ironically. He does use that winking manner occasionally. Not that he actually likes craft beer, but he knows that ordering a designer beer in a bowling alley would get him murdered in the media, so he's making a joke about that.
This is a candidate who admitted his favorite TV show is The Wire, not the sort of thing you say when you want to pander to Joe Sixpack.
Paul of Kingston - March 31, 2008 2:47 PM
He knows his audience and makes the message fit. No flies on Obama for this one.