Pub Photo Op for POTUS: Obama Slams Down a Guinness in Florida Irish Bar As His Jobs Bill Is Killed in Senate
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 11, 2011
Pres. Obama has a round of beers with unemployed construction workers at The Harp & Celt Irish Bar in Orlando, Florida
What was POTUS doing when his beloved “you pass this now” stimulus masquerading-as-a-jobs-bill package was squashed in the Senate?
Why, he’s a focused, concerned leader of the greatest nation on earth, of course… he was slamming down some Guinness in an Irish bar in Florida while on yet another beg-for-bucks campaign for his “gotta raise a billion dollars” reelection.
Pass that beer mug NOW!
President Obama visited Orlando late today to collect campaign cash and tout his doomed $447 billion jobs bill while sipping beer with four unemployed construction workers.
Slumping in the polls and facing roadblocks on Capitol Hill, where his job bill stalled in the Senate later in the evening, Obama urged about 400 supporters at a downtown Sheraton hotel to summon “that same sense of urgency we had in 2008. Let’s meet this moment.”
Obama proclaimed himself a “warrior for the middle class” in his remarks at the Sheraton, where attendees paid between $44 and $250 to see the president.
He told the crowd that America is a nation of “rugged individualists.” But, he added, “there’s always been this other thread in our history that says we’re all connected, we’re in this together. There are some things we can only do together as a nation.”
Obama and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer then stopped by the Harp and Celt Restaurant and Irish Pub, where they drank Guinness stouts while meeting for about 30 minutes with four out-of-work laborers, who drank Budweisers.
“You guys are what this country’s all about,” Obama told the three pipefitters and one plumber, according to a pool report.
Hmm, that’s not what he said to Joe the Plumber in 2008.
It continues… when he left the Irish bar, Barack joined up with liberal Floridian millionaires. Who weren’t those “evil” millionaires he’s constantly bashing for having too much money nor the “evil” millionaires Occupy Whatever hippies are stalking and protesting. These wealthy people have the right amount of money, and the Community Organizer in Chief wants as much of their vast fortunes as they are willing to give him so that he can continue denigrating those “evil” millionaires. And then tax the holy heck out of all millionaires.
The president next headed to a $1,500-a-head fundraiser in nearby Lake Mary at the home of attorney John Morgan, whose firm recently hired former Gov. Charlie Crist. The host committee for the Lake Mary event included NBA veteran Grant Hill, basketball Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing, Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers and former baseball star Ken Griffey Jr.
Obama carried Florida with 51 percent of the vote in 2008, but a recent Quinnipiac University poll found 57 percent of the state’s voters disapproving of his job performance and 53 percent saying he doesn’t deserve a second term.
From Orlando Sentinel, Obama raises a glass, cash in central Florida:
President Barack Obama hoisted a glass of Guinness beer in a toast with unemployed construction workers during an impromptu stop at the Harp & Celt Irish pub in downtown Orlando, Tuesday evening. Obama made the stop between campaign fundraisers, where he touted his employment-stimulus bill that was later defeated in the U.S. Senate, Tuesday night. The first fundraiser was at the downtown Orlando Sheraton with a crowd of several hundred supporters; the second was a more exclusive soiree at the home of personal injury attorney John Morgan, in Lake Mary. Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer and Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown joined Obama for the visit.
Unlike First Lady Michelle-O’s recent contrived shopping trip to Target, in a weird PR stunt to show she needs to stock up on dog food and Lysol just like “all the little people of America” do, or something like that, Barack seems to relish being photographed drinking beer.
Or, just drinking it — no photographer necessary. Your call.
A man and his beer… can become really obsessive.
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A bit of spoofing fun…
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