“People think I’m cool.”
President Barack Obama
MSNBC White House Interview
February 1, 2009
If a big ego is needed to save the economy we are in good hands:
The president certainly is not lacking in pride.
MSNBC posted the flash video here.
Barack Obama tells Matt Lauer at a White House interview that aired before the Super Bowl, “People think I’m cool.”
Transcript is here:
LAUER: I was driving over here, Mr. President. I was thinking about this enormous transition that you’ve been through —
OBAMA: Right.
LAUER: — taking on the reins as commander-in-chief, Mrs. Obama becoming the First Lady. But you’ve got a daughter ten and a daughter seven. And this is a — huge game changer for them as well.
OBAMA: Yeah.
LAUER: How they doing?
OBAMA: You know, they — I said this I think in an earlier interview. People think I’m cool. Nobody’s cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know — happiness and — steadiness. And they’re loving school. They’re making friends. In fact, they’ve got a — they’ve got some friends from school over — today and — they’ve already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know — I think maybe to endear — myself to her, she — she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So — what more could I want?
UPDATE: Mr. and Mrs. Sn-Obama are already tired of being in the White House.
…That only took two weeks.
UPDATE 2: What a shock– The new president is seen by some as arrogant.