Obama: Putin Has A Bored, Tough Guy “Schtick”…

Putin is a thug, but he has without a doubt been eating Obama’s lunch on the world stage.

Via Politico:

President Barack Obama chose not to attend the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in part because he didn’t want to distract from the competition, he said in an interview airing Thursday.

“The folks that people are actually interested in seeing are our incredible athletes,” Obama said in an interview with NBC’s Bob Costas, according to a tweet from Jim Bell, NBC’s executive producer for the Olympics.

Obama also commented on Vladimir Putin in the conversation, suggesting in the words of a now-deleted tweet from an NBC researcher, that the Russian president’s “bored, tough guy ‘schtick’ [is] aimed at internal audience.”