From Salon.com:
Here’s a challenge for any enterprising reporters who really want to put John McCain and Barack Obama on the “free trade” spot. Ask the candidates how they feel about the hostile takeover bid made for Anheuser-Busch Wednesday by InBev, a Brazilian-Belgian brewery conglomerate. Could John McCain, for example, really stand aside and cheer as control of Budweiser passed overseas?
To some Americans, this foreign invasion is far more significant than any attempt to wrest control of American ports or railroads. This is a struggle for America’s very essence! Budweiser is iconic. Missouri’s politicians are up in arms, and at SaveBudweiser.com, more than 31,000 patriotic Americans have already signed a petition opposing the merger.
Um, last I checked America ripped off “Budweiser” from the Germans and the most insulting thing is they took the name and slapped it on inferior rice based piss water.
No kidding. It sounds like the takeover would result in better beer, at least.
It was actually the Czechs that Budweiser ripped off.
I think if the merger is a good idea if it’s going to increase the quality of the weasel-piss that people call Budweiser.
Budweiser is like making love in a canoe – It’s F**king close to water.
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Merger can only improve what most Americans think is beer.
Ah, Budvar/Czechvar my bad, sad thing is I knew that, guess I’d been drinking a few too many when I posted. Just don’t take away my Real beer card. 😉 Nice to see people who know that Budweiser is anything BUT the “King of Beers.”
uh… “Barzilian”? .. appropriate in this context, I guess.
This complaint is a bit strange considering the US constantly applies political pressure on foreign governments if the roles were reversed. Many brand icons in other countries have been snapped up by US companies without a word of complaint.
As the US dollar dives get ready for this to happen in reverse or for the US to give up some of the foreign brands it now controls.
I’m in – signature 41664
Piss water or not, changing Budweiser to what you consider to be a better quality beer is like improving the looks of the Louvre Museum by removing that eyesore of a pyramid – it’s a matter of opinion.
I drink Killians – not Bud. Budweiser is an AMERICAN company and should stay AMERICAN. I work for a French owned company that owns German product lines – Rowenta for one…every year I find the product diluting its name for having sent production to China where quality is of no import to them. What was once I good name is now fallen. Krups is another one – considered among the top of the coffee industry has also diluted itself….really sad.
I don’t want to see Budweiser go that route.
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I didn’t realize I’d typed that. Oooops! Freudian slip perhaps.
Anyway, I corrected it.
Thanks
Jonco
Respectfully submitted; how many “American” companies are really American anymore? Sure the board of directors and ownership may reside here in the U.S. but corporate greed almost always goes to cheaper labor in foreign countries, sure there are Anheuser-Busch plants in the US, but there are plenty abroad as well.