Beer Buddy Election

[rlev1223]

I have heard many times that Americans choose their president based on who they would prefer to "have a beer with" and I've concluded that this measure of a man must be very, very important.

Can close the Beer Swigging Gap in time?

[liberalmuse]

1. I'd be more than happy...

to drink a glass of Hemlock® with Bush, but beer? No thanks.

(Disclaimer to SS: I would offer Absinthe afterwards)

[StopTheMorans]

11. SNAP!

:)

[napi21]

2. Well, I can tell you I sure don't want to have a beer with an arrogant

AH! I've had many opportunities to do so, and declined all of them! I'd love to have a beer with Kerry and Edwards! I suspect Kerry would have some more expessive beer like Killians, or some beer I can't afford and truthfully don't like, and Edwards might as well, but I don't care! The company and the conversation would be great, and although both of them have a lot more money than I will ever have, we'd share a common relationship with people.

George would try to convince me how great he was, and I can get that sh*t from any local bar fly.

[billbuckhead]

3. This makes me crazy---Bush is an alcoholic

Bad things always happen when you go drinking with an alcoholic.

[Philostopher]

4. No kidding --

I can have a beer with an illiterate Republican dork who can't string a sentence together by walking to my next door neighbors' house. Why the hell would I want to have a 'beer' with a raging alcoholic anyway? Hmm -- on second thought, maybe I would like to have a beer with Bush* -- if I can pick the beer.

[napi21]

8. Who said he was buyin'? n/t

[mitchtv]

6. I doubt Kerry would drink Killian's

It's a Coors product, I believe.

[BootinUp]

5. Maybe Kerry should do a Budweiser ad, LOL.

I crack myself up sometimes.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Serious shortcomings

A Frenchman called Arsene Wenger took over the managership of Arsenal soccer club here a few years ago now. The team has been doing very well under his management, and is in fact at the top of the Premiership League table.

However, I am deeply worried by his deficiency on two particular counts, at least one of which I had always thought to be absolutely essential in this country for anyone even aspiring to become a successful soccer manager - whether of an amateur team or one of the top professional clubs. I have never - no, not ever, seen Wenger either spit ..... or chew gum. It's a conundrum I'm not hopeful of fathoming in the foreseeable future.

But I did come across a hilarious letter in yesterday’s Daily Mail (truth to tell, a corporatist rag of the first water, but good for the racing and, ironically, human-interest stories) about another great manager, who died the other day. One of the old school, and one of the best club managers the country has ever known. His name was Brian Clough.

To say he was larger than life, would be a major understatement, but you will surely come to a similar conclusion if I just copy the letter below:

Man management

Further to the late Brian Clough’s unique management style, Nottingham Forest were once three goals down at half-time and all the players trooped into the changing rooms with their heads down.

Cloughie marched in and ordered the players to sit in one corner of the room; if necessary, they were to sit on each other’s laps. He then left and immediately returned with a cup of tea – which he threw over the players before leaving the changing room without a word.

The players were dumbfounded but in the second half they turned in a brilliant performance, scoring three goals and having one disallowed.

After the match, Cloughie went into the dressing room and said “Amazing what a cup of tea at half-time does,” before turning on his heels and walking out. You won’t get that kind of management today.

John Edwards

[IronLionZion]

9. Since Bush doesn't drink, you can't have a beer with him

without proving that he is a liar.

[AntiCoup2K4]

10. I have a friend who becomes a total asshole when he's drunk

Sometimes he's an asshole when he's sober as well, but even worse when drunk. I have to be drunk myself to tolerate him in that state of mind. I imagine a drunken Junior would be about the same, so no, I don't see myself drinking beers with the Chimp.

Sad to say I probably wouldn't want to drink with Kerry either, because he kind of reminds me of this other dude I know who would get drunk and then just be a total literal buzzkill getting too deep into the philosophical reasons of why "Atom Heart Mother" was such a superior album to "Dark Side of The Moon" and other Barrett vs Waters vs Gilmour rants. Actually, as deep as this guy was in to Floyd, I was surprised that alcohol was his only chosen chemical of recreation.

But as a campaign issue, this is just fucking idiotic. It's not like the President - any president - is gonna call up average Americans and invite them over for a pitcher and a game of 9 - ball at the local pub anyway.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

12. Well, in the inverse, the friends I like to drink beer with...

Would be the last people I would want to see in the WH. MKJ