When Kroft suggested that Obama seemed to lack emotion in delivering his Afghanistan speech at West Point, the president responded with a jab at the Bush administration.
“[O]ne of the mistakes that was made over the last eight years [was] for us to have a triumphant sense about war,” Obama said. “There was a tendency to say, ‘We can go in. We can kick some tail. This is some glorious exercise.’ When in fact, this is a tough business.”
And when Kroft said the address was “greeted with a great deal of confusion,” Obama interjected.
“I disagree with that statement,” the president shot back, observing that “a whole bunch of people understood what we intend to do.”
Obama also made no attempt to conceal his irritation when Kroft brought up the reality TV aspirants who crashed a White House State dinner last month.
It’s really a shame that I had to go through a whole 60 Minutes interview without talking about the gate crashers,” Obama said with a laugh. “Good catch.”
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