He’s tuckered out
President Barack Obama speaks to the media Monday about the airliner bombing attempt on Christmas Day.
It's not just me. Our president is looking worn out.
WASHINGTON -- After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.
Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency - the early decisions to bail out the nation's banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan. More here.
Would you want his job?
