Glenn Thrush has a new e-book out, detailing both the dramatic discord in Obama-Land, as well as the president's own surprisingly gleeful descent into negativity (emphasis added).
In the interviews with current and former Obama aides, not one said he expressed any reservations about the negativity.
He views it as a necessary part of campaigning, as a natural — if unpleasant — rotation of the cyclical political wheel.
One juicy little anecdote?
Obama told a Rubio friend that he "might get his ass kicked" if he ran for vice-president.
Obama’s trash-talking competitiveness, a trait that has defined him since his days on the court as a basketball-obsessed teenager in Hawaii, was on display one night last February, when the president spotted a woman he knew was close to Sen. Marco Rubio in a Florida hotel lobby. “Is your boy going to go for [vice president]?” the president asked her. Maybe, she replied.
“Well,” he said, chuckling, according to a person who witnessed the encounter. “Tell your boy to watch it. He might get his ass kicked.”
