Presidential beer choices

Without getting into the politics of it, following are apparently the beer choices for today's White House meeting:

"The president will drink Bud Light, Gates will have Red Stripe, and Crowley will drink Blue Moon, [White House spokesman] Gibbs said."

Blue Moon, for Canadians, is just "Rickard's White". There are many better witbiers around that aren't made by Coors, but it's still the best choice of the three on a Washington summer day.

Good heavens, man, Bud Light? I agree with this guy. Given the historic outcry over dijon on the burger, I know that he's got to choose carefully, but Sam Adams would have been a better way to go however you look at it. Especially for a contretemps originating in Cambridge, Mass.!

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Update: this would have been a far more entertaining result.

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Further update: now CNN is saying that the beer choices were as follows:

"The president was drinking Bud Light, Biden was drinking Buckler (a nonalcoholic beer), Gates was drinking Samuel Adams Light and Crowley was drinking Blue Moon."

Leaving poor Joe out of it for the moment (nonalcoholic beer being like decaffeinated Diet Coke - why, o why?), where's the scandal over the Gates switcheroo? There needs to be a crack team of investigators on this. Was Red Stripe too culturally significant? However, Gates now gets the "best beer choice" award. Let's give the President the benefit of the doubt and assume he would have had the same but for the implications of siding with one of the combatants. Gosh, statecraft is hard.