Cindy McCain would run a beer company from the White House. That's even more difficult than Paris Hilton running a hotel chain from the dance floor.

As long as they don't serve up a draft.

the morality of running a beer company out of the white house seems to rest of the merits of the beer being produced. i'm more of an amber ale guy myself.

the morality of running a beer company out of the white house seems to rest of the merits of the beer being produced. i'm more of an amber ale guy myself.

Sorry, I thought she owned a Budweiser* distributorship. What does that have to do with beer?

(*the American variety, that is.)

Ironic to follow an 8-year frat boy kegger party in the white house with a Budweiser franchise...

"Considering what's been going on there over the past seven years, I'd say that running a beer company out of the White House might raise its moral tone a bit."

Well, turning the White House into an S&M brothel with a sideline in crystal meth production would raise its moral tone, frankly.

Dude, she can team up with Billy Carter! It'll be bipartisan beer business running out of the White House!

Who knows? Maybe when Inbev buys Budweiser, they'll throw Cindy out on the street. Or make her serve Stella Artois.

St. McSame is gonna need all that beer after election day himself.

And what about her relatives background & their liquor business history ?

(that second URL is a cached copy since the original has, apparently, been scrubbed from the site; a little local political pressure perhaps ?)

"...This is not a game." - Lorie Van Auken (2001.09.11 widow)

Cindy McCain will be first lady when the St. Pauli Girl is elevated to Pope.

He could recuse himself from all meetings with MADD.

On the upside my state might be forced to allow the sale of alcohol on Sundays and my favorite brew might start coming with free ping pong paddles.

Billy Carter is dead. Although.. Dead Billy Beer might sell.

Boom! Nice, snarky comment, Kevin. Well done.

John McCain is going to get annihilated in November.

She doesn't have to run it directly. She can do with the distributorship as Chaney did with Haliburton.

"Considering what's been going on there over the past seven years.."

Not the past seven but the past fifteen years!

Why not? For the last seven years, they've been running the oil industry out of the White House. Or is it the other way around?
Either way, Sock Puppet at 2:36 wins the thread IMO.

Maybe Cindy can arrange corporate sponsorship for the White House. The Anheuser-Busch Executive Mansion. Along with the Easter Egg Roll the Bud Bowl could be held on the White House Lawn.

Just heard Bob Shieffer, in his introduction, that John McCain "reversed postion" on off shore oil drilling...and Obama "FLIP FLOPPED" on campaign financing...and he (they) think they "report" fairly!!!! I knew they didn't listen to themselves....

But she's the kinda of gal some would like to sit
down with and chug a 40 oz.

Dancer: "reversed position"/"flip flopped"

Don't you know that serious writers abhor using the same phraseology twice in a row? I'm sure there was no ill intent.

bwoohoohahahahahhaha!!!!

If Hillary had got the nomination we'd be asking the same conflict-of-interest questions regarding a potential spouse, this time as a result of Bill's foundation fundraising. Michelle Obama's looking better and better.

Over the long term, with Washington full of power couples, we're going to need to come to some understanding about the careers of presidential spouses. Specifically, I think we'll have to have it understood that the spouse's political and financial life has to go on hold during the time (s)he is first spouse. Anything else leads to massive conflicts of interest.

Even if we dodge it this time, this problem is going to be with us for the indefinite future.

At least that implies that somebody there would have a clue about how to run SOMETHING.

I might have to consider that as a positive.

From Samuel Popkin, political science professor at UC San Diego, on potential problems with Cindy McCain's business activities:

I think it's kind of a prissy quote. It's like saying you can't have sex in the White House or something. Beer is just a commodity. It's new to have a beer-mogul in the White House, but that's it. It's not nearly as colorful so something like running a porn business or a contraceptive business would be.

YaY No Bid Beer Contracts!!

"You can't run a beer company out of the White House."

But you can run a mafia racket - so what's the difference?

NOTE: Every bottle sold at the White House had a screw cap....

Hard to come back from vacation, isn't it Kevin?

Beer? Forget beer, people who like how she's ragged on Michelle Obama should know that Cindy McCain admitted to stealing narcotics from her own charity to support her addition. The addiction started from legitimate need for pain killers, but did she have to steal them? She and John started their affair while John was still married to first wife Carol (shades of Bob Dole!) The media pretty much give all this a pass, but you guys and gals don't have to.

A smug sack of shit like Cindy McCain will keep up with her beer distributing with the same relentlessness that a pig like Bush uses to nominate and re-nominate scum to judicial posts or to protect lawbreakers like AT&T.

Greedhead garbage like Cindy McCain and the republicans only really care about one thing--money--and they will pursue it no matter the harm to the constitution or the presidency or the American people.

Well, I'll tell you what, Cindy McCain, you're old now, and your outsides are increasingly as ugly as your insides. You look like Skeletor or the Crypt Keeper. Your freckled, leathery chest is hideous, and the skin has that rippled and wrinkled look, like the overly tanned neck of a surfer. Your pinched-back face has obviously had work done, but all it does is emphasize that your face and your head look like a skull.

You look like the skull-box that the Evil Queen in "Cinderella" keeps on her table. But instead of being a vanitas with snakes writhing in the skulls sockets, your eyes sparkle with dollar signs and beer money.

As the years go on your breasts and your midsection will sag even more, like your corrupt, really nonexistent, morality.

I'd be proud if it was a quality beer or spirits manufacturer. It's the whole politically active monopoly aspect that rubs one the wrong way.

deCascadian @ 3:13AM

Interesting links!