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longprime · Guru

RE: Obama's mean streak

hope · Guru

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/26/obama-has-a-mean-streak-and-he-turned-it-on-romney-this-week.html

People are finally catching on to the real O. Or finally admitting what they knew all along?

But there was something darker and sharper lurking just below the surface, in Obama’s facial expressions, body language, and mocking tone of voice: Not to put too fine a point on it, but the president has a mean streak.

“He does have a very biting side to him, which he inherited from his mother,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss, whose much-anticipated Barack Obama: The Story w ill be published next month. The late Ann Dunham “could be very sarcastic, but she never addressed it to people who were vulnerable,” Maraniss continued. “Obama has got that style that comes out when he’s in combat or competitive.”

I thought all a long he won't be able to contain his mean streak; the contrast with the generally placid, amiable Romney will be stark.