We complain a lot about Barack Obama wanting to pick winners and losers, but this is getting ridiculous:

Maybe we can blame it on the Olympics — everyone goes for the gold! Seriously, though, when on national television, shouldn’t someone have supplied the President with a Kleenex?

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