Press Pool Refuses Beer From Obama
Published December 31, 2008 | By W. Leon Smith
HONOLULU, Hawaii – A few members of the press pool following President-Elect Barack Obama in Hawaii refused to have a beer on his tab last week.
Obama had been on a holiday vacation in the state he once called home when the refusal occurred.
The press pool was sitting outside the club house of a golf course on which Obama had been playing poorly by his own admission.
Obama offered the round of beers at the snack bar half way through his five-hour game of 18 holes.
The pool noticed that Obama ran up a $17.75 tab that consisted of two spam masubi rolls among other items.
Spam musubi is made from spam and a fried egg on a bed of rice on a dried seaweed wrap, according to the New York Times.
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