The man clearly has a thing for beer. If it’s not Budweiser it Guinness.

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, flew to London on Monday night instead of Tuesday morning because of fears that a volcanic ash cloud from Icelandic could drift over Ireland and prevent his Air Force One jet from flying.

They were forced to cut short their visit to Ireland, where the President sipped a pint of Guinness in the village of Moneygall to celebrate ancestral roots.


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