Analysis: White House beers a way to change topic
“If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose,” the comedic philosopher Jack Handey once theorized.
A messy eureka moment like that wasn’t the point for the White House beer drinkers Thursday night.
President Barack Obama’s get-together with black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and white police Sgt. James Crowley was less about reaching for racial enlightenment than about helping Obama tamp down hard feelings, change the subject and get Americans to focus on what he wants to do in office.
“We agreed to move forward,” Crowley said afterward, adding that he and Gates also “agreed to disagree.”
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