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February 27, 2009
Boo yeah
A coke and a :), originally uploaded by Bеn.
I knew there was a reason I liked Barack Obama. In walking around town, I noticed that Pepsi had developed a new campaign that looked suspiciously like Obama's campaign logo. Some reporters noticed this too, and set about finding out whether America's Coolest President (since Kennedy, at least) was a Coke or Pepsi guy. As a person who refuses to drink Pepsi, I was pleasantly surprised:
Several senior Administration officials are committed cola drinkers, and without fail they spend their days sipping from a can of Diet Coke, a product of Pepsi's chief competitor, Coca-Cola. On Monday, as members of Congress and key lobbyists filed into a briefing room for the final event of a daylong fiscal summit, they were greeted with an ice chest full of complimentary Diet Coke, not Diet Pepsi. (Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus was one of many to grab a can.) Hours earlier, at a breakout session with members of Congress in the Indian Treaty Room, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag handled not one, but two cans of Diet Coke during the nearly two hour session. Larry Summers, Obama's top economic adviser, rarely walks anywhere in the White House complex without a can of Diet Coke in his hand. He is well known for interrupting conversations to take another swig.Nyah nyah nyah, Pepsi! Your beverage is too sweet and too carbonated and your commercials suck! And since Barack Obama seems to think so, it must be true!
But these examples do not even constitute the most damning evidence against Pepsi. Late last year, Obama's nascent Administration worked out of transition offices in a downtown government building, which was serviced by only Pepsi-brand vending machines, according to three people who worked in the building. Two Administration officials have told me that a group of Obama aides, frustrated by the security gauntlet required to go to the corner store, stocked a refrigerator with Diet Coke in open rebellion against the available options.
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Posted at February 27, 2009 04:41 PM