Jul 31, 2009

great taste, less american?

Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) critiques President Obama's choice of a Bud Light in his recent "beer summit" (hopefully) ending the Henry Louis Gates-racial profiling controversy, arguing that Budweiser, now owned by a Belgian company, is no longer an "American beer," and that the President should've had a Massachusetts-based Sam Adams instead. Sam Adams is the largest American-owned beer company.

But shouldn't the real complaint be not who owns the company, but the fact that Sam Adams has a richer, more full-bodied flavor than Bud Light? Even if the President is worried about his slim physique, I can attest that a Sam Adams Light is much more flavorful than a Bud Light.

Slow news day, so they all claim... meanwhile, California is falling into the ocean.

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