After reading the transcript of his press conference, I'm tempted to believe that the term "outstanding" employed by President Obama might have a double resonance...perhaps even a sarcastic interpretation... Could the offer of a Presidential beer, a stereotypical beverage enjoyed by stage Irishmen, have been a coded message of disparagement?
From the Cambridge, MA Chroncle & TAB:
Tommy Doyle’s Irish Pub owner Peter Woodman said you could hear a pin drop when Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley picked up his cell phone to hear President Barack Obama on the other line. After what seemed like a 10-minute conversation with the president inside the Kendall Square restaurant, Woodman said Crowley and everybody around him was shocked...