Obama's Budweiser Healthcare Strategy Is a Bust.
Gatesgate just gets worse and worse.
First, Obama lets a minor incident turn into a major distraction from healthcare reform.
Now he thinks he's being clever by claiming that he'll be drinking a Bud when the fellas get together for that beer-drinking group hug at the White House.
Doesn't this just sum up his go-along to get-along approach to the healthcare debate? Instead of staking out a position and sticking to his guns, he thinks he can get his Blue Dog adversaries to like him by...pretending to drink shitty beer?
Obama's Budweiser Healthcare Strategy is a bust. It's signals weakness.
No doubt, lots of people drink Budweiser.
But none of them brag about it. They drink it because it's cheap and it has something called "Drinkability" - which means you can drink a six-pack and still operate a remote.
Drinking Bud is like watching TV. Sure, millions of people watch TV. Not a single person would think of lisingt it as a "hobby" on a job application.
What is it about Democrats, supposedly the "People's Party," that they have such a problem connecting with average people? That they have to pretend to drink Budweiser to burnish their regular-guy bona fides?
Surely nobody needs healthcare reform more than us Budweiser-drinking, working-class Bubbas. With our high blood pressure, maxxed-out credit cards, job insecurity and pre-existing conditions, we are the most vulnerable to being dropped by for-profit insurance companies. The most likely to lose our jobs, as well as our health insurance. Yet president Arugula cannot seem to make a more convincing case for reform than people who question whether he's even an American citizen and who swap photo-shopped images of him with a bone in his nose.
What us regular guys respect is toughness. We know the odds are against us. We don't like to be bull-shitted. We don't like a guy who starts out saying Single Payer makes the most sense and ends up backing down even on whether there's gonna be some anemic public option. When the president of the United States comes into our living rooms brandishing a bottle of Bud, we smell a rat. We didn't buy Poppy Bush's pork rinds and we don't buy Obama's Budweiser. JFK woulda shown up at one of these photo-ops with a $100 bottle of Sam Adams Utopia and a couple of chilled mugs to pour the other guys a taste of the good stuff.
You wanna be our friend, Mr. President? Get us a health care bill that doesn't allow insurance companies to drop us because we've been swilling Budweiser for 25 years. Much better to swagger into the White House with a nice Oatmeal Stout than to prance around with a bottle of Bud and give in to these sleazebags. Let the sleazebags insult our intelligence. That's what they do. That's what we expect of them. You want to be on our side, Mr. President? Go in there and tell those guys that they're drinking pisswater and that the American people deserve a premium beer - and premium health care.
First, Obama lets a minor incident turn into a major distraction from healthcare reform.
Now he thinks he's being clever by claiming that he'll be drinking a Bud when the fellas get together for that beer-drinking group hug at the White House.
Doesn't this just sum up his go-along to get-along approach to the healthcare debate? Instead of staking out a position and sticking to his guns, he thinks he can get his Blue Dog adversaries to like him by...pretending to drink shitty beer?
Obama's Budweiser Healthcare Strategy is a bust. It's signals weakness.
No doubt, lots of people drink Budweiser.
But none of them brag about it. They drink it because it's cheap and it has something called "Drinkability" - which means you can drink a six-pack and still operate a remote.
Drinking Bud is like watching TV. Sure, millions of people watch TV. Not a single person would think of lisingt it as a "hobby" on a job application.
What is it about Democrats, supposedly the "People's Party," that they have such a problem connecting with average people? That they have to pretend to drink Budweiser to burnish their regular-guy bona fides?
Surely nobody needs healthcare reform more than us Budweiser-drinking, working-class Bubbas. With our high blood pressure, maxxed-out credit cards, job insecurity and pre-existing conditions, we are the most vulnerable to being dropped by for-profit insurance companies. The most likely to lose our jobs, as well as our health insurance. Yet president Arugula cannot seem to make a more convincing case for reform than people who question whether he's even an American citizen and who swap photo-shopped images of him with a bone in his nose.
What us regular guys respect is toughness. We know the odds are against us. We don't like to be bull-shitted. We don't like a guy who starts out saying Single Payer makes the most sense and ends up backing down even on whether there's gonna be some anemic public option. When the president of the United States comes into our living rooms brandishing a bottle of Bud, we smell a rat. We didn't buy Poppy Bush's pork rinds and we don't buy Obama's Budweiser. JFK woulda shown up at one of these photo-ops with a $100 bottle of Sam Adams Utopia and a couple of chilled mugs to pour the other guys a taste of the good stuff.
You wanna be our friend, Mr. President? Get us a health care bill that doesn't allow insurance companies to drop us because we've been swilling Budweiser for 25 years. Much better to swagger into the White House with a nice Oatmeal Stout than to prance around with a bottle of Bud and give in to these sleazebags. Let the sleazebags insult our intelligence. That's what they do. That's what we expect of them. You want to be on our side, Mr. President? Go in there and tell those guys that they're drinking pisswater and that the American people deserve a premium beer - and premium health care.
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Nice one Cheesemoose!
July 29, 2009 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
At the moment, the prospects for important health care reform look good. The outcome will be far from perfect, but will probably go a long way toward achieving affordable coverage for most Americans.
During his presidential campaign, Obama at times faced harsh attacks from the opposition that threatened to erode his position. He was immediately barraged by advisors lamenting his inability to get tough, give them some "red meat", and harshly denounce McCain and the Republicans.
He refrained from doing that. Perhaps if he had listened to that advice, he would have won the election.
July 29, 2009 7:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
"At the moment, the prospects for important health care reform look good."
I say Bull! The politicians are too timid to do anything worthwhile, so we are just going to get screwed again. The U.S. is absolutely becoming a third world disaster.
July 29, 2009 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink