At a school on MacDill Air Force Base, President Obama was asked whether he fought in the civil war. “No,” Obama reportedly responded. “I was born in 1961.”
Via the pool report:
As the pool walked into the school, we could see the president talking to a classroom with the door closed. In Elizabeth Slagal’s first grade classroom next door, kids told the waiting pool that President Obama was coming to see them. They were all wearing red, white and blue. One of the poolers asked the kids what the president does. One of them, trying kind of hard to be on TV, mugged a big shrug. And then did it again, and again … Over the transom, pool could hear the prez in the other room saying he was passing out AF One M and M’s, and could also hear the kids peppering him with questions. (Yes, that’s my signature, he said. “I signed every box.”) Another question: did you fight in the Civil WAR?
“No, I was born in 1961.” He also told the boys not to do any head-butts before coming over to the room the pool was in.
In Ms. Slagal’s class, potus shook hands with every kid and admired the spikey haircut of one boy. Another kid checked out the president’s hair in the same way. A little boy raised his hand and then, when the president called on him, couldn’t remember what he was going to say. “That happens to me all the time,” potus said. “I think I have a good point, and then…. the press makes fun of me.”
He flashed a grin toward the pool.
Pool is back in the vans while the prez is still in the school house.
“No, I was born in 1961.” He also told the boys not to do any head-butts before coming over to the room the pool was in.
In Ms. Slagal’s class, potus shook hands with every kid and admired the spikey haircut of one boy. Another kid checked out the president’s hair in the same way. A little boy raised his hand and then, when the president called on him, couldn’t remember what he was going to say. “That happens to me all the time,” potus said. “I think I have a good point, and then…. the press makes fun of me.”
He flashed a grin toward the pool.
Pool is back in the vans while the prez is still in the school house.
