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McCain Pledges Presidential Beer Ban

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06/10/08
Not since Rutherford B. Hayes vetoed four bottles of sarsaparilla passed by the 45th U.S. Congress in 1877 has a president (or presidential candidate) threatened a popular beverage's natural course through the legislative process. But now, Senator John McCain has taken an intrepid stand against another beloved drink.

On Tuesday, while speaking at D.C'.s National Small Business Summit about excessive earmarks, the presumed Republican presidential nominee--holding aloft an ominous black Sharpie--promised to veto "every single beer" that comes to his desk. Check it:



Now, before we belittle Senator McCain for his overzealous and reactionary agenda, we should realize that the current Democratic Congress--out of all the Congresses in recent memory--is likely to send some beer, if not copious amounts of it, to the Oval Office for approval. If you have strong feelings about your president signing various lagers, stouts and Hefeweizens with permanent ink, now is the time to make your vote count.

B. Brandon Barker is the author of the novel Operation EMU.

Brandon Barker

B. Brandon Barker's writing has appeared in Global City Review, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (St. Martin's Press), Verbicide, The Feed and online at McSweeney's. He's also the author of the novel Operation Emu. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he was born in England, raised in Arkansas and now lives in Virginia.

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