f/u: Romney supporters, No Obama Beer for You!

[mominatrix]

Obama buys beers for 10 Iowans, snubs Romney supporter
The Daily Caller – Tue, Aug 14, 2012

Obama: Beer for thee, but not for GOP

President Barack Obama is beating Gov. Mitt Romney on the so-called “beer test” of likeability, but the president doesn’t want to have beer with Republicans.

A revealing moment came Monday, when Obama told a tent of drinkers at the Iowa State Fair that he’d buy a round of beers for 10 people, but not for one person carrying a sign of support for Gov. Mitt Romney.

At the beer tent, the drinkers “started chanting, ‘four more beers!’” according to the pool report.

“Potus said, ‘I’ll tell you what, except for Romney sign, I’ll buy beers for ten people,’” the report added.

Obama also refused to eat pork cops until he asked for a knife and fork.

The vignettes are minor, but the 2012 race is so close that every angle counts.

In recent months, for example, Obama’s aides have said his personal likability ratings have bolstered his support among voters worried about the nation’s stalled economy, high unemployment and record deficits.

Obama is liked by 60 percent of voters, while Romney scored only 30 percent in likability, according to a USA Today-Gallup poll announced July 24.

“While that may not seem as important a consideration for voters as their perceptions of the candidates’ competence or their agreement with the candidates’ issue positions, the better-liked candidate on the eve of the election has won each of the last five elections,” said the Gallup statement.

In 2004, for example, most voters picked President George W. Bush over Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry when asked who would they prefer to share a beer with.

The president’s periodic pique has been exposed before, especially when he is under stress, for example, during the 2011 budget negotiations with the GOP. A sharp exchange with Rep. Eric Cantor, for example, prompted Obama to snap “Eric, don’t call my bluff.”

His behavior at the Iowa State Fair also bolstered his reputation for prissiness, by asking for a knife and fork to eat two pork-chops handed to him by the incoming president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association.

“Potus took his pork chops to the stand to eat. Then he turned around and yelled out: ‘Someone’s gotta have a knife and fork!’” according to the pool report.

Obama’s epicurean tastes have caused problems for him on the campaign trail.

In 2008, during a similar tour of Iowa, he complained about rising prices sought to prove his point by asking “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?”

That year, he also declined to eat a Philly cheese steak while stumping for votes in Philadelphia, but instead snacked on gourmet ham that sold for $99.99 a pound. After much local jeering, he told supporters that “I’m going to get a cheesesteak the next time I come.”

news.yahoo.com/obama-buys-beers-10-iowans-snubs-romney-supporter-165012958.html

[IIOY]

Use of a fork and knife is now considered a political liability? He ate the damn pork chop, right?

I hate all of this. The pandering, the expected pandering, the disappointment with the lack of pandering. All of it.

On the upside, four more beers is almost always a good idea.

[IIOY]

Aug 16, 2012 9:05:47 GMT -5 cjoy said:

Dude. Nobody wants to see a picture of themselves tearing into a pork chop with their bare hands.

You know some asshole somewhere would criticize him in an op-ed for being unpresidential.

But why discuss real issues when we can worry about whether POTUS is eating a pork chop like the locals do?

[eclaires]

Who eats a pork chop without a knife and fork? lol, wtf.

Also, $99.99 ham? Ham is gross.

[IIOY]

Aug 16, 2012 9:11:33 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Who eats a pork chop without a knife and fork? lol, wtf.

This was my reaction as well, but apparently I'm prissy.

[pixy0stix]

Perhaps he didn't want a corn dog incident.

[eclaires]

Aug 16, 2012 9:12:34 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Aug 16, 2012 9:11:33 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Who eats a pork chop without a knife and fork? lol, wtf.

This was my reaction as well, but apparently I'm prissy.

If he was eating ribs or something with a knife and fork, I might judge.

But pork chops? What are we? Cavemen? lol.

[IIOY]

Aug 16, 2012 9:16:34 GMT -5 cjoy said:

They come on a stick with a little bit of waxed paper to catch the river of grease.

Look at this real Amurican eating one:

Is that thing fried?

[heyjude]

How fucked are we that silverware is now prissy?

[mominatrix]

Aug 16, 2012 9:21:18 GMT -5 heyjude said:

How fucked are we that silverware is now prissy?

For a pork chop.

Now, if we were talking about pizza, it would be a different story entirely.

[wawa]

DruidP tried to eat a cheesesteak with a knife and fork.

She must actually be a liberal.

(don't worry. We set her straight.)

[EllieArroway]

I cannot believe that eating a pork chop with a knife and fork is considered elitist now.

My high school Home Ec teacher is probably rolling over in her grave.

[Deleted]

If it was a pork chop on a stick, like at the fair, it is kind of odd.
Also, even though its a beer, I think it says more about the state of politics these days. We're so damn polarized-everyone standing in their own corner that we exclude someone from having a beer? This irritates me more than the issues themselves.

[sonrisa]

Yeah, I routinely buy beers for people trying to get me fired from my job.

8-D

[sonrisa]

Aug 16, 2012 11:04:00 GMT -5 flygirl said:

We're so damn polarized-everyone standing in their own corner that we exclude someone from having a beer? This irritates me more than the issues themselves.

It's a fair. He isn't being "excluded." If he wants a beer he can buy his own. It isn't a Dickensian orphanage.

[Knight]

Aug 16, 2012 9:18:46 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Is that thing fried?

Do you even have to ask?

[ringstrue]

[Deleted]

Aug 16, 2012 11:38:14 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

Aug 16, 2012 11:04:00 GMT -5 flygirl said:

If it was a pork chop on a stick, like at the fair, it is kind of odd.
Also, even though its a beer, I think it says more about the state of politics these days. We're so damn polarized-everyone standing in their own corner that we exclude someone from having a beer? This irritates me more than the issues themselves.

He didn't prevent anyone from having a beer. I don't think he's required to buy beer for someone trying to oust him from office, though. I doubt Romney would buy a beer for an Obama supporter.

I'm not talking about the beer specifically, but the sentiment. And not even Obama--all politicians.

[karinothing]

I would rather try $100 a pound ham than eat a cheesesteak. I mean at $100 a pound it should be amazing right?

[IIOY]

Aug 16, 2012 12:05:24 GMT -5 karinothing said:

I would rather try $100 a pound ham than eat a cheesesteak. I mean at $100 a pound it should be amazing right?

::clutches pearls purchased on Jewelers Row and staggers backward::

[pvillewife06]

Aug 16, 2012 10:00:42 GMT -5 wawa said:

DruidP tried to eat a cheesesteak with a knife and fork.

She must actually be a liberal.

(don't worry. We set her straight.)

Blasphemy!

[downtoearth]

Aug 16, 2012 8:48:39 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

Obama also refused to eat pork cops until he asked for a knife and fork.

The vignettes are minor, but the 2012 race is so close that every angle counts.

Ha LOL ...he had "pork cops.". You'd think the police would protest. Hee Hee

[pvillewife06]

Aug 16, 2012 12:05:24 GMT -5 karinothing said:

I would rather try $100 a pound ham than eat a cheesesteak. I mean at $100 a pound it should be amazing right?

[wawa]

Aug 16, 2012 12:13:35 GMT -5 pvillewife06 said:

Aug 16, 2012 10:00:42 GMT -5 wawa said:

DruidP tried to eat a cheesesteak with a knife and fork.

She must actually be a liberal.

(don't worry. We set her straight.)

Blasphemy!

I know, right? In her defense...this was actually in Denver. Not Philly. But she was in a Philly bar with a gaggle of philly-area natives (i.e. my family) being served by a guy who says wooter for water.

Good cheesesteaks. Pleasant surprise.

[pvillewife06]

Aug 16, 2012 12:22:53 GMT -5 wawa said:

Aug 16, 2012 12:13:35 GMT -5 pvillewife06 said:

Blasphemy!

I know, right? In her defense...this was actually in Denver. Not Philly. But she was in a Philly bar with a gaggle of philly-area natives (i.e. my family) being served by a guy who says wooter for water.

Good cheesesteaks. Pleasant surprise.

My favorite cheesesteak (although I prefer pizza steaks) was in a Philly bar in Daytona, FL. It was like a shack painted in Eagles green. Delicious!