Obama Beer Sparks Controversy

posted @ 07:36...

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President Obama was recently spotted drinking a beer at a basketball game. What bothers me is NOT that he knocked back a cold one. (It probably wasn't even a good beer, like Shiner, Guinness, Fat Tire, or even Sam Adams.) What bothers me is a caller's reaction to it on a local radio show.

From the above article: "People are losing 5, 10, 20 thousand dollars a day in the stock market, and he's sitting there drinking a beer!" She also said, "It's insulting... there's a lot of people suffering."

Another one said: "The president is the president 24 hours a day. I don't think he should drink on the job."

Silly, I know. Just because you're the president, suddenly you can't relax with a beer at a basketball game? And what does his having a beer have to do with the failing stock market? Were I in charge of a country with a tanking economy, I might wanna drink too. Is it President Obama's fault that people are losing money in the stock market? Wall Street is just another Las Vegas. As with other forms of gambling, people should go into the stock market expecting to lose, and if they win, then hooray for them.

People like these women tend to think that public servants like the President should be busy 24-7, with sleeves rolled up, solving the problems of this nation. They don't realize, the President is human. You don't solve a country's problems by burning out. Good for him for taking a few hours to relax - regardless of his beverage.