<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/777387a0-37af-4cb3-b05d-9beffa92ed5f/A7E3A403-66CF-4500-B0C1-8592DC3E5E5F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama"><P>In the words of the great Homer Simpson</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama"><P>Here's to alcohol, the cause of—and solution to—all life's problems.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama"><div align="center"><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/26396137001?isVid=1&isUI=1&publisherID=281851582" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="playerID=26396137001&@videoPlayer=31317828001&domain=embed&autoStart=false&adServerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fads.guardian.co.uk%2Fhtml.ng%2Fspacedesc%3Dvideo%26system%3Dvideo%26title%3D31317828001%26site%3DNews%26url%3D%25252Fworld%25252Fvideo%25252F2009%2525" seamlesstabbing="false" swliveconnect="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama"><H1>Do beer summits work for you?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Obama's school of conflict resolution suggests a boozy face-to-face – has this worked in settling your own quarrels?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama"><P>Defusing a potentially explosive row, US president Barack Obama yesterday brought the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr and the police officer who <A title="arrested him" href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html" linkindex="36">arrested him</A> to <A title="have a chat over a beer" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/31/barack-obama-beer-summit" linkindex="37">have a chat over a beer</A>. Reports suggest it seemed to work – at least so long as the participants <A title="stick to a light beer" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a.gwSkEZ7Lr0" linkindex="38">stick to a light beer</A>, and any escalation can be pre-empted by White House security staff.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama"><P>But what works for people's quarrels <A title="Gawker: Liveblogging our national beer reconciliation summit" href="http://gawker.com/5326725/liveblogging-our-national-beer-reconciliation-summit" linkindex="39">without top-level assistance</A>? Is alcohol the best medicine? Do you recommend this talking cure? What methods have you used to attempt to resolve an argument in your own life – and what were the results?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/31/beer-summit-barack-obama"><SPAN class="caption"> Obama's 'beer summit' with Henry Gates and James Crowley <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jul/31/obama-gates-crowley-beer" name="&lid={inBodyVideo}{Link to this video}&lpos={inBodyVideo}{1}" linkindex="35">Link to this video</A> </SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A7E3A403-66CF-4500-B0C1-8592DC3E5E5F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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