Beer Battered Mitt: How Obama is Using Beer to Defeat Romney

Beer Battered Mitt: How Obama is Using Beer to Defeat Romney 

By: Jason EasleyAugust 16th, 2012

Have noticed how often President Obama is mentioning beer on the campaign trail? This is no accident. In fact, it is a calculated political strategy.

Even in the White House, Barack Obama has still been a bit of regular guy. Well, as regular as a guy can be while being President of the United States. Obama loves his family, likes sports, shoots hoops and has an image in many ways of being the prototypical guy, who just happens to also be the most powerful man in the world.

This personal likability has kept the president afloat even during his toughest professional times. No matter what has been going on in the country, majorities of Americans have always personally liked Obama. Mitt Romney, who Americans have never warmed up to, has been trying to chip away at the president’s likability with constant claims that Obama is a liar who is diminishing the office of the presidency with his reelection campaign.

The Obama folks have found an interesting way to negate Romney’s attacks before they ever get started. On the campaign trail, President Obama has not been shy about displaying his taste for an ice cold brew.
The Washington Post put together some clips of Obama referencing and tossing back a cold one while campaigning through Iowa.

The thing about Obama and beer is that it is genuine. Remember the Henry Louis Gates incident, and the Beer Summit at the White House in 2009? This is not new, but the president is using a sudsy strategy to define and defeat Mitt Romney.

If there is one thing Mitt Romney is not, it is a regular guy. Romney appears to be campaigning on the fact that he is not a normal guy. The Republican nominee has embraced his status as the defender of the super rich and claims that anyone who doesn’t like him is jealous of his money.

It is also safe to say that because of his Mormon faith you’ll never see Romney hanging out and drinking a beer. The Obama campaign has taken Romney’s faith off of the table, but the sight of Obama drinking a beer is a visual reminder that Mitt Romney isn’t like most Americans. No matter what the reason, Mitt Romney doesn’t come off like an everyday guy who understands your problems.

The age old question of presidential candidates that voters have been asked for decades is would you like to have a beer with this candidate? In 2012, it isn’t even close. When voters were asked last month which candidate they found more likable, Obama led Romney, 63%-27%. Voters like Obama, and they don’t like Romney.

Whether this Bud’s for you, he heads to the Rockies, the mountains, or pumps some Iron, President Obama might have discovered a new path to victory, which will be loaded with delicious irony of Obama being able to use a product that right beer barons like Coors family produces in order to win reelection.
In the battle of Obama’s every man likability versus Romney’s cold aristocracy, it really may come down to who voters would rather pop a cold one with for the next four years.

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Barrack Obama Is The Greatest President We Have Had; In The Last 43 Years.

August 14, 2012 by fidlerten

Barrack Obama has done what no other President has. He has actually benefitted the American people. Not with vague promises and less than obvious laws that are predicted to do some good down the road but with dollars and cents value; today and Health Care of all things.

Whoever really thought that we would see a day when nobody has to say; “I can’t afford to go to the doctor; even though I am sick or in pain or having a hard time breathing? We are after-all, one of the last nations to address this problem and even after the SCOTUS decision to uphold, we still lag far behind those nations which provide Universal Health Care.
But that is no reason to feel anything less than proud of what The President has done.

What else could any President do that would have so much positive effect on so many Americans? Not since Lyndon Baines Johnson has a President done so much and never for so many people of all races and never in such a corporal way.

The fact that the “ObamaCare” legislation has met with so much resistance, only points up the absolute need for it. It shows us just how far the POO (Party of Obstruction) is willing to go to cast a shadow over the Obama Presidency and defeat him in November; even allowing and encouraging the continued real, physical suffering of millions of our own people. With callous disregard for human life and human pain, they have shamed themselves; yet they don’t even seem to comprehend the extent to which they have shown their true colors.

One day, America will look back and everyone will recognize just how great My President is. Until that day; it will have to suffice that we see it.

It is the way of things that a man’s best ideas and his true vision are often not known until after his time is done. We know this from History. The true scope and vision of Martin Luther King was not recognized while he yet lived and the nation was not aware of who they had slaughtered and what he could have done or would have done, for all of us. It is enough to make me quite melancholy at times, thinking of the waste and human suffering this nation has caused and endured.

As to that 46%, I believe that number is not an accurate expression of America’s views in that Polls are conducted from among the voting public. If we can find a way to motivate a whole bunch of those who don’t vote; who feel disenfranchised and frustrated with this corrupt political system; I feel sure that we could swing that 46% down, down, down to its real place (I speculate between 25-35% but that is just a guess). But that means convincing the great masses of silent, brooding, Poor and Lower Middle Classes that they are not alone; that they can make a difference when their vote is added to the already enormous number of Americans who support My President.

The “POO” is just that; an obstruction and obstructions simply need to be overcome, circumvented; or swept out of the way. That’s our job. The President can’t do that alone. It takes votes, millions of votes, our votes. But wouldn’t it be an amazing thing if we could motivate all of those who are silent now. I believe we have the potential to send Barrack Obama back to the White house with more than a majority. I believe we have a chance if we want it; to send him back to the White House with a Mandate from the people to forge ahead with his vision and send the POO skittering back into the slimy hole they climbed out of.