Last night I spent the better part of an hour scouring blogs and news gathering websites for images of Barack Hussein Obama consuming beer at the so-called “beer summit” yesterday. Needless to say, I couldn’t find any. Oh, there were plenty of pics of Obama leaning back in his lawn chair (supposedly after a hard day’s work) nursing a mug of Bud Light sitting on the table in front of him. But no pics of him actually downing a cold one.

That’s odd… Was Sergeant James Crowley the only one captured on film hoisting a mug of suds to his lips during the “beer summit”? Was that the intended outcome — to get images of the cop drinking beer, but not the president, the vice president Joe Biden, or the race baiting Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. whose loose lips sparked a firestorm of race debates in this country?

Maybe Obama’s handlers didn’t want to see any more images like this one. Maybe they reminded O that it isn’t cool or presidential to be photographed in public sipping brew. Not when teenagers are still drinking and driving and killing themselves at alarming rates. Best to do all his swigging behind closed doors like George Bush did.