President Obama, please drink a craft beer

The New York Times (disclosure: I work for one of their newspapers) writes that Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department will be sharing a beer with President Obama on Thursday. It's an attempt to smooth out tensions over Gates' arrest. Here's what caught my eye:

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs promised Budweiser, the all-American king of beers, saying that that’s what Mr. Obama drank while at a recent baseball game.

Mr. President, may I humbly suggest you and your party drink a locally brewed craft beer instead of Budweiser?

A quick search of BeerAdvocate shows there are at least three brewpubs in Washington, D.C. If they sell beer to go, Obama could buy a growler of fresh, locally brewed beer that has much more flavor than Budweiser and isn't brewed with adjuncts like corn and rice. The local breweries may even brew organic beers using local ingredients, something I know Michelle Obama is fond of.

And if the brewpubs don't work out, there are plenty of great craft beers brewed in the Washington region that are sold in stores throughout the district.

What better way to stimulate the economy than by drinking craft beer brewed by a local small business?