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After eight years of that alky teetotaler George W. Bush, it’s always a delight to see that your president is man enough to have a beer without turning into some raging drunken elder-abusing asshole. Here is Barack Obama just cold slurpin’ a cold one with his powerful baseball-fan friends. On the left, let’s see, that’s probably Bill Gates. Hi Bill! And on the right … hmm, maybe Madonna? Let’s say Madonna. [White House Flickr]
Looks a little young to be Madonna, Eh?
I’d drink heavily too if I had to listen to Bud Selig for three hours.
Umm, don’t know who Madonna is but Bill Gates as actually Bud Selig, I believe his job is to be the George W. Bush of baseball
He seems to really like that sweatshirt.
I demand that Byron Dorgan conduct an inquest into the taxpayer expense associated with that beer.
Bud Selig is literally the most loathed and hated human being on Earth. Having a drink with Ahmadinejad would probably be better for his image.
that better be an american beer
I’m pretty sure he’s actually spitting tobacco juice.
mcc: It is a very nice jacket, yes.
Beer? Beer?
Muslins don’t drink “beer.”
People, that’s supposed to be a 40 oz MALT LIQUOR!
Hailing originally from Milwaukee, I’ve actually had suds with Bud.
And by “suds”, I mean “Bob Uecker’s urine.”
The funny thing is, this photo was taken in the White House holodeck media room.
In the reflection of the glass door, I can see dead people.
Those were the ones booing President Obama’s first toss.
Thats 3 more colored people that I’ve ever seen at a ball game.
Thought it was a Pabst Blue Ribbon there for a second. Don’t scare me like that, President Hussein X.
The outrage over this over in the Politico comments is rather awesome…
From the article itself:
After Obama was seen with beer in hand at the Wizards game, callers lit up the lines at WWL, a sports radio station in Louisiana, according to the station’s website.
“People are losing 5, 10, 20,000 dollars a day in the stock market, and he’s sitting there drinking a beer,” one caller said. “It’s insulting. There’s a lot of people suffering.”
Another caller complained, “The president is the president 24 hours a day. I don’t think he should drink on the job.”
Somewhere out there, Andrew McCarthy is composing a post on the Corner calling the President insufficiently manly for drinking beer out of a glass.
What’s Barry doing with his right hand? I’d like to think he’s getting that Bud out of his kidneys as fast as possible.
CollegeStudent: obviously they don’t teach absurdist sarcasm in college…i think Ken knew that was Bud Selig…
To be fair, I don’t think Bush became a raging asshole alcoholic after downing a beer at the ballpark. I think for him cocaine was a gateway drug to beer, and beer was his gateway to baseball, and baseball team ownership, his only success in life, the gateway into politics.
“People are losing 5, 10, 20,000 dollars a day in the stock market, and he’s sitting there drinking a beer
It’s Obama’s fault people made retarded investment choices? Do what? What about that good ol’ “personal resposibility” there, moronic Louisiana person.
So our Muslim Shark God can’t have a beer, but the Christian Pretzel Choker can play fake cowboy and cut down forests while wearing big hats for months and months? Got it.
Drinking beer at a baseball game is so un-American.
lizard scum:
re: Rangers: Little Shrub got that team for free & sold at a profit…. but the success was due to his patriarchal connections, not anything he did, actually..
sippin on gin and aborted fetus joice, no doubt.
LittlePig: I’m more curious as to why the fuck Politico is including quotes from callers to a Louisiana sports radio channel.
I mean, I’m sure it’s a group that typically supports black muslin LIEberal preznits, but hey.
JRinDallas: To be fair to W, he did give up golf.
That nice older lady in the back is like, “Hold on, I need to get a Polaroid of this for my Friendster page.”
mookworthjwilson: Wait so he doens’t really think that’s Madonna either?
Holy shit, I have been wasting taxpayer dollars on a crappy public education. I must be some sort of socialist.
NotNotLickingToads: when I lose 20,000 in the stock market a day, I especially want a beer. Whatsa problem?
WhatTheHeck: Those dead people you see in the windows are health-insurance executives who are going to kill themselves once the Public Health Insurance passes.
CollegeStudent: been a long day…guess my sarcasm detector was low on batteries here…
if he’s drinking a domestic, I want him throwed out of office.
“To be fair, I don’t think Bush became a raging asshole alcoholic after downing a beer at the ballpark.”
When was it ever “a” beer with him?
Holy smokes, that’s Hank Aaron! Well, hell. There went all my snark.
I bet he never had a beer with Glenn Burke
ManchuCandidate: No shit! and why is Obama sitting like a scorned Schoolboy?
LittlePig: $20,000 is about how much a beer costs at a stadium
mookworthjwilson: Its all good. I am pretty sure all I learn in college is sarcasm. Sarcasm and alcoholism
Is that Dick Cheney and Phyllis Schlafly in the booth in the back?
That don’t look like gin & juice; and he ain’t smokin no indo. But he’s most definitely *laid back* with his mind on our money and our money on his mind.
He paid at least $7.50 for that Bud Light. Stimulus beer!
Bud Selig is notorious for his dandruff. I hope Hopey got hisself brushed off afterwards. That shit’s gross.
jfruh: I take issue with your reference of Bud Selig being human.
LittlePig: Only Democrats, the poor, people who aren’t straight, and people of color are supposed to practice “personal responsibility.” Republicans, investors, sports heroes, and residents of C Street are exempt. It’s the standard for them. Pat Buchanan can explain it to you.
CollegeStudent: At least you’re learning something. Obviously, punctuation isn’t part of the curriculum.
Hooray For Anything: That ain’t no glass, it’s a plastic cup.
Chickensmack: Bite me - I’m drinking a Long Trail right now.
Say! That is Bad Henry, Hank Aaron over there - the greatest baseballer that ever was.
Hooray for the Hammer!
Yeah…that’s all I had to add.
You’ve got to hand it to Obama, what a fuckin’ genius move:
“THAT MUSLIN NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE HAVIN’ KENYAN IS DRINKIN’ A BEER! I AIN’T NEVER DRINKIN’ NO MORE BEE…eer… oh, wait.”
I hereby issue the following WINGNUT REPUBLICAN BEER CHALLENGE: I dare you to boycott beer because you hate Obama. In fact, I totally fucking double dare you.
(No way are they going to boycott beer. Any people dumb enough to seriously and earnestly think republican thoughts need beer before oxygen.)
Words: if he got the team for free, how could he NOT sell it for a profit?
Is it just me, or does the photo make it look like Obama is trying to put his arm around Selig? Maybe we have found the answer to who felt up David Brooks.
JRinDallas: So? Haven’t you been watching the Sotomayor hearings? Like children, brown people are best seen and not heard.
Min: Dammit, really? And here I was going to make a joke about it totes being Madonna next to him, since the look on her face clearly betrays her plan to steal all his babies. Hank Aaron, however…he just drives the snark right outta me. David Denby should hire him.
He’s sipping on it like it’s a Latte! Man, and I thought his first pitch was weak and effeminate.
Hank Aaron in the white shirt, 2 seats to Barry’s right, I’m pretty sure
Itsjustme:
He’s at a Nats game.
That’s Penny Marshall.
lizard scum: Wait… the Texas Rangers were a *success* under W? Well, the bar is set pretty low… by both parties.
HoboNutz: Looks to be an elitist microbrew he’s drinking. I bet he had just eaten some arugula. Further proof he ain’t a true ‘merican.
Dude even looks cool drinking a beer, a feat I have never mastered.
magic titty: And it was perhaps, all that was need to be added.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS-World-UK-US-sailors-deliver-wine-to-Tower-of-London-/articleshow/4793309.cms
Also…
NotNotLickingToads: WWL is 50,000 watts, clear channel, of nothing but Rush and such. So the whole planet can hear how f***ed up New Orleans really is nowadays. Especially at night, when you get the skip.
artbot2000: If he’s at a Nats game, that explains why he’s getting drunk.