Who Would You Rather Have a Beer With?

(A good point orginally published by Rich Lowry at NRO)

The conscientious guy, concerned with helping those around him? Or the oblivious guy, striding majestically alone? (h/t Am Thinker)

This picture begs the question of why this "beer talk" had to happen in the first place.

UPDATE From Mark Steyn.

This picture, which Rich noted yesterday, has gone around the world, and has been generally considered to be worth the proverbial thousand words, or a thousand White House beers. What I find oddest about the whole business is that it's an official White House photograph by an official White House photographer from the official White House website. So at some point some number of Obama flacks must have figured that this pic makes our guy look good: Are they so monarchically besotted they what most people find jarring about the shot is what the image boys actually like about it?

ANOTHER UPDATE from AmericanThinker about this photo as a metaphor for Obamacare. Everybody is running with this thing!