Obama Makes Command Decision: Will Have Bud Light During His Meeting with the Race-Baiter and the Cop Whose Career He Tried to Destroy

It's good to see the man can make a decision that doesn't cost Americans trillions of dollars. Assuming he actually made the decision.

President Barack Obama will have Bud Light tomorrow when he hosts an old friend and the police officer who arrested him.

Obama, 47, has picked the top-selling beer in the U.S. for his get-together at the White House with Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Massachusetts, police Sergeant James Crowley, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said today. Crowley will probably drink Blue Moon and Gates is likely to opt for Red Stripe, Gibbs said, citing news reports about their preferences.

Political strategists and marketing experts called the pick an easy, non-controversial choice for a meeting designed to defuse the tension sparked by the July 16 arrest of Gates by Crowley.

“He’s trying to send a message that he’s an average American and these are two other average Americans,” said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican strategist. “If you complicate that by making an exotic choice, or an import, or too expensive, you can be too cute by half.”

‘Acted Stupidly’

Obama invited Crowley and Gates to the White House after the president drew criticism in a July 22 news conference for saying the Cambridge police “acted stupidly” in arresting Gates at his home on a disorderly conduct charge, which was later dropped. Obama spoke hours after police union officials in Cambridge called on him to apologize.

Two days later, Obama called Crowley and Gates, an old friend, to invite them to the White House for a beer.

“I think this will be a very casual affair,” Gibbs said yesterday. “There’s no formal agenda other than cold beer.”

Average American? Call em' what you want, but there's nothing average about Obama's race-baiting past or the past of Gates. Average my ass.