Barack Obama “Punch Drunk”?: Obama 60 Minutes (VIDEOS)

Posted on March 23, 2009

Barack Obama was interviewed by Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes. Check out the video of Obama being asked if he’s “punch drunk” and his statements on Dick Cheney below.

Here’s a transcript of the back-and-forth between 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft and President Obama:

Kroft: “You’re sitting here. And you’re — you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money –’ How do you deal with — I mean, wh — explain.”

Obama: “Well –

Kroft: ” — the mood and your laughter.”

Obama: “Yeah, I mean, there’s got to be –”

Kroft: “Are you punch drunk?”

Obama: “No, no. There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day. You know, sometimes my team — talks about the fact that if — if you had said to us a year ago that — the least of my problems would be Iraq, which is still a pretty serious problem — I don’t think anybody would have believed it. But — but we’ve got a lot on our plate. And — a lot of difficult decisions that we’re going to have to make.”

Here are the videos of Barack Obama on 60 Minutes below: