"I don't sit around talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."
Did the President of the United States actually just say that? It's hard to imagine any other self-possessed president, secure in his role as leader, making such an uncouth, sophomoric statement on the record. It smacks of insecurity. Beyond that though, Obama just isn't an intimidating man by any stretch, as opposed to say, Theodore Roosevelt or Andrew Jackson, so to hear him say "so I know whose ass to kick" borders on the comical and pathetic. This ranks right up there with the cringe-worthy "Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?" moment from the press conference a couple weeks ago. After that schmaltzy line, to now hear him wax macho, talking about ass kickin', well it just doesn't work.
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