WE'VE SENT IN THE CLOWNS – AT 8:23 A.M. ET:  Sometimes President Obama says something that is so revealing that nothing more need be said.  The president got very testy during a news conference in Korea.  From The Politico:

The president complained several times during his news conference about the U.S. media’s coverage of the G-20 summit. He pushed back at the suggestion that he’s weaker on the world stage because of the midterm elections and argued that his fellow leaders are no tougher on him than they were a year ago when he was new to the scene and his poll numbers were high.

“I remember our first G-20, you guys writing the exact same stories you’re writing now. Don’t you remember that, Sheryl?” Obama snapped at the New York Times’ Sheryl Stolberg.

Asked by CBS’s Chip Reid what complaints he heard from other leaders during the summit, Obama shot back: “What about compliments?”

He appeared thin-skinned about the characterizations of his time at the summit, grumbling that nobody wrote about leaders setting the stage for financial regulatory reform at the last G-20 summit because it “wasn’t real sexy” and criticizing reporters’ “search for drama.”

COMMENT:  "What about compliments?"  Can you believe a president asked a question like that?  The man acts like an adolescent, needing a pat on the back from mommy. 

And Barack Obama is complaining about press coverage?  The press was essentially part of his 2008 campaign.

Two more years, folks.  Two more years.

November 12, 2010