Much has been made about Barack Obama’s appearance on The Daily Show the other night. Especially the similarity of his “Larry Summers did a heck of a job” line to the “Brownie did a heck of a job” comment for which George Bush was excoriated.
But far more interesting to us was Jon Stewart’s response as described by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post:
The Daily Show host was giving Obama a tough time about hiring the conventional and Clintonian Larry Summers as his top economic advisor.
“In fairness,” the president replied defensively, “Larry Summers did a heckuva job.”
“You don’t want to use that phrase, dude,” Stewart recommended with a laugh.
Dude? Has any president in history so cheapened the office that a comedian felt comfortable calling him dude?
The Dude-in-chief, indeed.
Source: WashingtonPost.com
