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Obama wants to keep ‘the Fox out of the White House’

"They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way". Those are the words of a character named Jim Malone in the movie The Untouchables. President Barack Obama likes to say, "I am skinny but I’m tough. I’m from Chicago".

Obama is known for winning; he beat odds and won the presidency and beat even bigger odds to win the coveted Nobel Peace Prize. Now he’s opened various war fronts – waging real wars in Iraqi and Afghanistan and, of late, with an antagonistic TV network. The president is famed for his ability to maintain his cool when everything is crumbling around him. For this, he has earned names like "Mr Cool" and "No Drama Obama".

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