The infamous “Beer Summit” shared by Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., police Sgt. James Crowley and President Obama last month may have marked alcohol’s most politically divisive moment since Prohibition.
Now that the issue is out of the headlines, the topics of ‘domestic’ and ‘imported’ have once again taken on different meanings inside the White House. Without the TV analysis and political punditry, the President quietly enjoyed a stiffer drink under lighter circumstances last weekend, sipping a “Tres Margarita” during a trip to Phoenix.
With the 2009 New York mayoral election in full swing, voters will be closely scrutinizing their own candidate’s every decision – including those made on the barstool. Fortunately for the electorate, they seem to have that one under control.
City Comptroller and presumptive Democratic nominee Bill Thompson, for one, isn’t shy about his position when it comes to cocktails.
“Bill would order a Jack and Coke in a dirty glass,” said campaign spokesperson Janet Dickerson. “We’ll leave the Manhattans to Bloomberg.”
The Mayor’s camp agrees that policy isn’t the only area where the two men differ, and apparently he’s neither shaken nor stirred.
Bloomberg spokesperson Stu Loeser said the Mayor is known to imbibe when sitting down for a bar burger, like the one at Duffy’s on the North Shore of Staten Island.
“He washes them down with whatever beer is on tap,” Loeser said, “or whatever the house red is.”
Red, blue or in-between, it seems voters and candidates alike can agree that there’s no wrong decision when it comes to sitting down for a glass of the good stuff.
Comments
That comment about drinking Jack & Coke out of a dirty glass is ridiculous, and disgusting. I've been handed drinks at bars with lipstick stains and fingerprints on the glass, glasses with chipped lips and drinks with glass fragments floating at the bottom. That is not appealing, and Janet Dickerson's comment is retarded and petty - sorry but you're not winning the average Joe with obviously exaggerated statements like that. I would much rather have a beer in a clean glass with Bloomerg!
Yeah, that dirty glass comment doesn't even make any sense. Even someone who drinks Pabst Blue Ribbon or Old Milwaukee, and isn't a hipster, would demand that it be in a clean glass.
Friends - maybe 'dirty' is metaphorical, or a proper noun. Maybe its a type of glass, like a 'highball' or 'shot' glass. I heard Jimmy Carter's favorite drink is a White Russian.
I believe to drink from a dirty glass actually means to coat the inside of the glass with an alcohol used in the drink prior to mixing the drink or to re-use a glass from your previous drink. I don't think it actually means he wants to drink from a dirty glass from the shelf. Just an FYI for anyone who was perplexed by his comment...
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