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Big beer bet for Obama, Harper on Olympic hockey
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 28, 2010

Posted on 02/28/2010 3:29:52 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama owes his Canadian counterpart a case of beer.

Obama made the friendly wager with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper before Sunday's U.S.-Canada gold medal game. Canada beat the United States 3-2 on Sidney Crosby's overtime goal.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama had a case of Yuengling, a Pennsylvania regional brew, riding on the game.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010olympics; beer; beersummit; harper; obamajinx
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To: perchprism

Yuengling, Yes, good stuff.

USA Hockey played a great game they were plagued with the
“Obama Jinx”


21 posted on 02/28/2010 4:22:22 PM PST by Outrance
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Congratulations taxpayers! By the time 0bama manages to obtain and deliver the case of beer we will probably be out at least a quarter million dollars even if he pays for the beer with his own money, which seems unlikely.


22 posted on 02/28/2010 4:28:54 PM PST by KarinG1 (They should put the terror watch list online so we'd know who to drag out and feed to the gators.)
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To: perchprism

“Yuengling? What a crappy beer”

Actually it’s a GREAT beer! I assume you’ve never had it - or you like light beer.

It’s also the oldest brewery in the country.


23 posted on 02/28/2010 4:29:59 PM PST by Castigar
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To: TN4Liberty
I have one "favorite" local channel. It happens to be nbc. By the time Olympic coverage ended local news on other channels was already over. (Other local channels are more biased than national news is.)

It seems just a little funny that nbc could do regular programming from 6:30 to 7:00 every night to show Friends, but couldn't cut Olympic coverage short to do local news. Their priorities are screwed up in my way of looking at things.

24 posted on 02/28/2010 4:36:04 PM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: perchprism

Yeungling is conservative brew. Sam Adams is liberal swill . Didn’t their president sponsor some contest where people had sex in public at a church? Seems like that’s something Obama might prefer to a company that kicked out the Teamsters.


25 posted on 02/28/2010 4:39:09 PM PST by Varda
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama is quickly replacing the Sports Illustrated cover as the biggest jinx for sporting world or politicians.


26 posted on 02/28/2010 4:47:56 PM PST by egannacht (Inalienable rights granted by...)
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To: egannacht

Thank you Obama!


27 posted on 02/28/2010 4:51:51 PM PST by BenKenobi (And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.)
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To: Sunshine Sister
That's ridiculous that your local affiliate was so blind as to not find space for local news. I would be angry, too.

Thanks for the thumbs up on my friend's (Rick Nash) gold. It was a fantastic game; best since 1980!

28 posted on 02/28/2010 4:57:43 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good grief, there are a LOT better options than Yuengling to pick from. Congrats to the Canadians, that was a great game!


29 posted on 02/28/2010 5:26:55 PM PST by ATLDiver
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To: Sunshine Sister

We watched the hockey game, then ‘Antiques Road Show’ from ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’, WI. One of my customers was on. I’ll have to be much nicer to her now that I know she’s $5K richer, LOL!


30 posted on 02/28/2010 5:27:09 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I hope at least this time Obama referred to Harper as the "Prime Minister":

Presidential hopeful Obama ‘promotes’ PM to president

31 posted on 02/28/2010 5:30:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Presidential pussy couldn’t bring himself to offer a case of Samuel Adams.


32 posted on 02/28/2010 5:34:01 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I cant believe he offered them something they could actually drink, I figured he offer up Bud Light or PBR and they would serve it to baby seals before clubbing.


33 posted on 02/28/2010 5:39:39 PM PST by MiltonFriedmanFan
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