Just happened upon this photo last night — President Obama surrounded by a bunch of blurry white guys. (click through for larger version)

(Tilt-shift photo by Chuck Kennedy for The White House)

"You’ll have ‘trouble’ votin’, huh? You’re gonna have trouble walkin’, too, because Ah’m gonna put mah foot so far up your ass you’re gonna be tastin’ wingtips fer a month. Now you get back in there, and get your fuckin’ people together on this. We got sixty votes, and Ah will be god-damned if Ah’m gonna let this shit fall apart on me on account of Joe Fuckin’ Lieberman."

Andy Sturdevant channels LBJ

"I saw the headline and wasn’t sure it was real at first. My thought after that was, must have been a slow year for peace."

well said, Emily.

"Obama hasn’t weighed in on his favorite brew. But foreign beers are not stocked at the White House, in a tradition dating to the Johnson administration."

This somehow made it into the end of an article about Henry Louis Gates, Jr’s arrest. Other important information learned; Skip Gates prefers Red Stripe and Beck’s, while Sgt. James Crowley has been known to drink Blue Moon.

Awaiting beer-centric analysis of American race and class tensions. Anyone?