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President Barack Obama has proved himself a full-blooded American male, who believes that there are very few things in life than can’t be resolved over a good old mug of beer.

The much anticipated White House ‘beer summit’ that the Prez and his White House staff tried extremely hard to downplay, but was dutifully blown to frenzied media proportions, apparently went off without a glitch on Thursday, at the White House Rose garden, just outside the Oval office, with the executive-in-chief of the nation sportingly playing bartender-in-chief for the dialogue.

The President’s face-saving attempt to extricate himself from a sticky spot that he had managed to step into himself, and to exercise some much needed damage control over the Prof Gates-Sergeant Crowley fiasco which threatened to snowball into an explosive racial feud, saw the two main players in the alleged racial profiling drama, namely the colored prominent Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and white police Sergeant James Crowley, along with the President and Vice President Joe Biden meeting over beer to talk over the issues that had been simmering just below the surface of the volatile issue.

Beer in clear glass mugs accompanied by peanuts and pretzels in small silver bowls, saw the two protagonists of the controversy having, what the President described as a “friendly,thoughtful” conversation, though by Crowley’s admission, there were different perspectives in the matter, as far as Gates and Crowley were concerned. About the mediatory role of the intervention-running President, Crowley commented that he had “provided the beer”.