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It's no easy task running the most powerful nation in the world. The president has invited Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley to the White House to have a beer in an attempt to dig himself out of a race-based media stinkhole.

According to the official White House beer steward, the president will be enjoying a Bud Light while Crowley will have a Blue Moon and Gates a Red Stripe. Blue Moon is an unfiltered beer spiced with orange and coriander, making it something of a fancy-boy beer, while Red Stripe is a Jamaican lager that helps white people dance. But Bud Light? Really?

Bush enjoyed a non-alcoholic beer every now and again, which is pretty much the same as drinking ditch water. Nixon treated guests to Michelob and Mexican food once, apparently in an insidious attempt to give them all diarrhea; and Jimmy Carter must have tried Billy Beer at least once. Thomas Jefferson was so hard-core he even brewed his own.

But do any of those choices seem right for the leader of the nation? What beer is right for such a powerful man?