Is this Bud’s take on Obama and Clinton?

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An AdFreak reader points us to this odd Election 2008-themed Budweiser ad, in which the “Lager Lessons” spokesman seems to offer a cryptic metaphor involving presidential candidates and beer. When it comes time to choose, he advises a young female voter, you don’t want anything too dark (or, as he more diplomatically puts it, too “heavy”), and you don’t want anything too light. You want something in the middle— i.e., Budweiser. The way it’s set up, you have to figure the dark, imported beer is a reference to Barack Obama (who isn’t technically an import, though his father was Kenyan).

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