According to an excerpt from President Obama's forthcoming interview with Douglas Brinkley at Rolling Stone, the president offered a particularly unvarnished opinion of his GOP rival Mitt Romney:
As we left the Oval Office, executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year-old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president. ... [S]he said, "Tell him: You can do it." Obama grinned. ... "You know, kids have good instincts," Obama offered. "They look at the other guy and say, 'Well, that's a bullshitter, I can tell.'"
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