Barack Obama once walked by a television on which a pundit was claiming to explain his moves and said to no one in particular, “Oh, so that’s why I did it?” He couldn’t hide the irritation, which is why Obama usually had the television tuned to ESPN. “One of the things you realize fairly quickly in this job is that there is a character people see out there called Barack Obama. That’s not you,” President Obama told Michael Lewis. “Whether it is good or bad, it is not you.”
